The United States drone program by all objective analysis has not been a precision instrument for killing terrorists. Instead, the program has reversed long-standing policies of basic international human rights and rules of war by implementing pre-emptive killing without due process. After years of Obama’s drone strikes that independent watchdog group Airwars estimated to have Read More…
Constitutional Rights
Lawsuit Exposes State in Taking Kids from Parents and Heavily Drugging them with Psychotropics
Foster children in Missouri have been dangerously over-medicated with antipsychotic drugs — intended to treat conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — to manage behavioral disorders like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a new civil rights lawsuit, which instead effectively puts them in “a chemical straightjacket.” “The sedative properties of the drugs are employed Read More…
How To Disappear Online
Like many other people in the online era, Mario Costeja González found himself in an uncomfortable situation: When people Googled his name the top result was a piece of potentially embarrassing information from his now-distant past. But unlike many others caught in a similar predicament, he did something about it: He went to court. The Read More…
9 Things About Big Pharma The Government Doesn’t Want You To Know
With the rapidly rising cost of prescriptions and the long list of side effects of most drugs, it should come as no surprise that it is not exactly big pharma’s top priority to consider what is in the patient’s best interest. What you might not realize, though, is that the government plays a large role in helping big Read More…
John Kiriakou: Dangerous Apathy, Torture, And The Perilous State Of Dissent In The US
John Kiriakou never imagined he would become, much less be called, a whistleblower for speaking out publicly against his CIA employer over a shadowy torture program he’s come to believe amounts to the most nefarious of violations of international law, a heinous crime against humanity, and an affront to otherwise-touted American values of freedom and Read More…
Google Promises To Bury “Questionable” Content On YouTube
The issue of filtering out content that advocates or glorifies terrorism on widely-used media sites like Alphabet’s YouTube has come under renewed scrutiny since authorities learned that 23-year-old Salman Abedi was radicalized after watching videos of an American preacher posted on the site. So unsurprisingly, barely two weeks after UK Prime Minister Theresa May accused Read More…