A report released by human rights groups in Pennsylvania on Tuesday questions whether cancer rates and other serious health ailments among inmates at a maximum security state prison are connected to an adjacent coal waste dump. If so, the breach of environmental justice could necessitate shutting down the prison, they say. The State Correctional Institution-Fayette […]
On the same day Edward Snowden warned New Zealand residents that they were “being watched” by their government, WikiLeaks published documents showing that police in Australia used powerful spyware to conduct operations. A new cache released on Monday showed that police departments in New South Wales (NSW) are a client of Gamma International, a German-UK […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that early voting in the state of Ohio can be curtailed, ignoring arguments that access to early voting improves turnout and gives wider poll access, particularly to working, low-income, and elderly people. The decision came just hours before early voting was set to begin in the state and […]
More than 500 scholars, veterans, and activists have signed a petition demanding the chance to correct the Pentagon’s sanitized version of Vietnam-era history, the New York Times reported Friday. The Pentagon is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by holding events around the country, providing educational materials about the war to schools, and […]
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The Republican Party experienced many more victories than losses on Tuesday’s Election Day, winning more than enough seats to take control of the U.S. Senate and increase its majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. The GOP also won at the state-level, as the party’s gubernatorial candidates beat out rivals in a number of states, […]
As the U.S. Senate readies for a vote on legislation designed to constrain some of the troubling aspects of domestic surveillance and the national security state, both advocacy groups and private industry are weighing in on the measure. A coalition of big-name technology and Internet companies—including Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Dropbox—is lobbying Congress to pass […]
Multinational oil and gas companies are moving into increasingly vulnerable countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia where the ecosystems, communities, and authorities are even less able to cope with the impacts of fracking and shale gas extraction, according to a new report from Friends of the Earth Europe. The report, (pdf), shows how the […]
Adding their voices to the growing call for justice, tens of thousands of protesters will take to the streets on Saturday in a National Day of Resistance against police brutality, racial profiling and American’s broken criminal justice system. Marches in New York City and Washington D.C. are expected to draw tens of thousands of people […]
Three Al Jazeera journalists marked their first year in jail in Egypt on Monday, maintaining hope that an upcoming appeal will bring good news in the case that has sparked international outrage since their arrests last year. Baher Mohamed, Mohamed Fahmy, and Peter Greste were taken into custody on December 29, 2013 in Cairo on […]