Month: September 2020

The U.S. military and the CIA reportedly have a new tool in their arsenal: a bomb that doesn’t explode, but deploys sword-like blades to kill or maim its human targets. The R9X Hellfire Missile, which The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday has been used at least twice—once by the Pentagon and once by the CIA—is a…

Privacy advocates and civil liberties defenders are expressing outrage after the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night voted down a bipartisan amendment designed to end, as one group put it, the U.S. government’s “most egregious mass surveillance practices” first revealed by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. In a final vote of 253-175,…

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Rep.-elect Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.-02) DATE OF BIRTH: Feb. 23, 1953RESIDENCE: Dennis Township, N.J.OCCUPATION: LawmakerEDUCATION: B.S., Rutgers University; D.M.D., Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFAMILY: Wife, Ricarda; two children ADVERTISEMENT Jeff Van Drew is adding New Jersey’s 2nd District to the Democratic column. Van Drew defeated Republican Seth Grossman and four other candidates to replace retiring Rep. Frank…

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In a scathing rebuke to the elite capitalists and politicians who largely control the global economic and energy systems, Mexico’s newly-appointed environment secretary on Wednesday pointed a stern finger at the “parasitic and predatory neoliberals” for being the key culprits behind the planetary climate crisis. “We can defend life, or we can continue destroying it…

Animal welfare advocates are praising soon-to-be introduced legislation in the United States that would ban the use of wild animals in traveling circuses. The measure, the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA), is set to be introduced Tuesday in the House of Representatives. Sponsored by Arizona Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D) and David…

One of the key fears that critics of mass surveillance and the proliferation of facial recognition technology have warned about has been realized with new reporting Monday that a “malicious cyber attack” has resulted in photos of airport passengers and other personal data harvested by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol being stolen by unknown actors….

Chanting “we are unstoppable, another world is possible,” thousands of activists in Germany set off Friday to occupy a coal mine as tens of thousands of other demonstrators mobilized in a separate German city as part of the swelling “Fridays for Future” climate actions. Activists Organizers with Ende Gelände (EG) mobilization say that roughly 4,000…