Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
China Vows ‘Iron Fist’ Response to Deadly Train Station Attack
March 2nd, 2014Via: Christian Science Monitor: For more than a year, the Chinese media have published regular reports of deadly violent incidents in the predominantly Muslim province of Xinjiang, in China’s far west. More than 100 people died last year in clashes between the police and ethnic Uighurs identified by the government as terrorists seeking independence from […]
The TSA is Looking for Bitcoin
March 2nd, 2014The TSA didn’t find any Bitcoin “tokens,” but you’re about to read comedy gold. Via: Daily Anarchist: I turned back to the orange shirt and asked “What did the Bitcoin look like?” Bill chimed in and told the agent that what he was saying was impossible because Bitcoin is digital and doesn’t have have any […]
Gallery: “China’s Apocalyptic Hellscape”
March 1st, 2014Via: Time: The smog in Beijing and parts of northern China has grown so bad that some have likened conditions to living through a “nuclear winter.”
Russian Parliament Formalizes Invasion of Ukraine
March 1st, 2014Via: AP: Russia’s parliament granted President Vladimir Putin permission to use the country’s military in Ukraine and also recommended Saturday that Moscow’s ambassador be recalled from Washington over comments made by President Barack Obama. The unanimous vote in an emergency session formalized what Ukrainian officials described as an invasion of Russian troops in the strategic […]
Yahoo Webcam Images from Millions of Users Intercepted by GCHQ
February 27th, 2014Via: Guardian: Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats […]
Over The Last Three Years, Israeli Forces Have Killed Dozens of Palestinian Civilians in the West Bank with “Near Total Impunity”
February 27th, 2014I don’t know why last three years should stand out as a distinct period from the last several decades of Israeli atrocities, but so it goes… Via: Amnesty International: Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West Bank over the past […]
Russian Ships Arrive On Ukraine’s Crimean Coast
February 26th, 2014Via: International Business Times: According to Russian news site flot.com, Russian military ships carrying soldiers have arrived on Ukraine’s Crimean coast in what some are claiming could be the early signs of a Russian coup in the hotly disputed autonomous region of the Crimea. Russia’s large landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov has arrived near the Russia […]
Inside the Army Spy Ring & Attempted Entrapment of Peace Activists, Iraq Vets, Anarchists
February 26th, 2014Via: Democracy Now: More details have come to light showing how the U.S. military infiltrated and spied on a community of antiwar activists in the state of Washington. Democracy Now! first broke this story in 2009 when it was revealed that an active member of Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance was […]
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
February 26th, 2014Via: The Intercept: Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To […]
Electronics Retailer Checks Customers’ Names Against U.S. Watch List
February 25th, 2014Via: EEV Blog: If your name happens to be fairly common like mine, then you may end up having your orders flagged and put on hold by Element 14, at least here in Australia. Because, well, their system sucks arse, and it seems like they are licking the arse of the United States government to […]
