Google and Yahoo are cooperating with US Government agencies to shape search results so that “mainstream” views are given prominence over dissent. New Google technology called Jigsaw has already been tested on jihadist messages and Yahoo has confessed to screening and storing email on behalf of US agencies. At the same time, Wikileaks celebrates ten Continue Reading →
The world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya is being closed by the Kenyan government as the result of terrorist activity among the 300,000 Somalis living there. Since December 2014, the United Nations Humanitarian Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has assisted in the relocation of 24,000 refugees to Somalia. Refugee activists and non-government-organisations say that refugees Continue Reading →
Philip Adams is interviewing Brooke Hamilton in repeat as I type. Listen here. They are discussing the theft of wealth by those running the neo-liberal agenda. Both broadcasters keep referring to “the one percent”. One percent of the world’s population is 70 million people. There are many more millionaires than that in the world, so Continue Reading →
Spraying for the Zika virus in South Carolina USA has resulted in a massive death toll of the bee population in the fertile and productive farming area. Local farmers and environmentalists are up in arms that the local government sprayed an insecticide called Naled from aircraft for two hours on Sunday August 28th. Those concerns Continue Reading →
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, abbreviated as CETA, has attracted broad criticism this week following an impassioned piece by George Monbiot in the UK Guardian. The treaty is promoted by its Canadian and EU backers as a key to opening cross Atlantic trade and therefor increasing wealth. Its critics point out that allowing global corporations Continue Reading →
Writing in CounterCurrents this week, Gustavo Esteva reports that the Oxaca Commune in Southern Mexico has continued to evolve and grow despite brutal repression by the Mexican government in 2006. A gentle revolution by the largely indigenous population of 4 million people set out to displace the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming Continue Reading →