By Corynne McSherry and Elliot Harmon | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gets ready to abandon a decade of progress on net neutrality, some in Congress are considering how new legislation could fill the gap and protect users from unfair ISP practices. Unfortunately, too many lawmakers seem […]
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International Politics and Economy
The Civil War inside Buddhism caused Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims
Paul Fuller | (The Conversation) | – – There is a desperate humanitarian crisis underway in Myanmar, centring around the Rohingya Muslims. There is what has been described as a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against the approximately one million Rohingya who live in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine. As well as retaliations from […]
Former Trump NSC Adviser Flynn Accused of $15M deportation Deal with Turkey
TeleSur | – – According to reports by NBC News and Wall Street Journal, special prosecutor Robert Mueller is reviewing a meeting between Michael Flynn and Turkish officials. Reports have surfaced that Washington is investigating whether former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn had agreed to deport Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, from the United […]
Former CIA Dir.: Trump is afraid of Putin Kompromat
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Two former intelligence officials on Sunday more or less said openly that Trump is compromised by Russia. Jake Tapper asked former CIA head John Brennan about Trump’s statement on Friday that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin when he said that Russia did not interfere in […]
Breitbart Goes to Bat for Roy Moore Amid Sex Scandal w/ Teenage Girl
By Jake Johnson, staff writer. | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Breitbart’s piece on the accusations more closely resembled a “press release” for Moore than a news story, argued one journalist. Minutes before the Washington Post on Thursday published a bombshell report detailing allegations by a woman who claims Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore […]
Can we turn military spending into a budget for the people?
By Frida Berrigan | ( Waging Nonviolence) | – – Connecticut is the only state in the union that does not have a budget, and the state’s bills are being paid in emergency supplementals — or going past due. The state is budget-less, so my town of New London — one of its smaller urban […]
Le Pen Stripped of Immunity for Tweeting Gruesome IS Images
TeleSur | – – Circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity” is a crime punishable in France by up to three years’ imprisonment. France’s National Assembly has lifted far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s immunity from prosecution after she posted pictures on Twitter of Islamic State (IS) atrocities. The decision […]
Top 4 Things Paradise Papers tell us about Super-Rich
Ronen Palan | (The Conversation) | – – The so-called Paradise Papers may sound familiar – leaked documents from a law firm that specialises in offshore services reveal how the global elite avoids paying taxes. Even the name has the same ring to it as last year’s Panama Papers expose. But the Paradise Papers are […]
Escaping Death: Meet The Rohingya Muslim Refugees Fleeing Myanmar (Video)
AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | – – “Late at night, Dudu Mia and his family wash up on the shores of Bangladesh. Their village in neighboring Myanmar was attacked by the military in an ongoing campaign to purge the Rohingya Muslim minority from the country; the refugees bring with them countless horror stories of […]
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