Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon Fund Far Right-Wing Lobbies
Some of America’s largest technology and telecoms companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and AT&T, are backing a network of self-styled “free-mar
Why is GOOGLE Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Photo: Grover Norquist (Getty) Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its “don’t be evil” motto, has been funding a growing list of groups adva
NSA Data Mining has Nothing to do with Terrorism
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "NSA's Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading Government Claims": "Time and again
“Mainstream” Media NSA was Lax in Protecting its Lawbreaking
November 8, 2013 This article originally appeared in the Daily Kos. Since June, the mainstream media has been reporting National Security Agency (NSA) whi
Pentagon’s Special Operations Command May Add Propaganda Websites (USA Today)
November 6, 2013 The Pentagon may expand its system of propaganda websites aimed at various audiences around the world despite attempts by Congress to kil
Fox News Swayed Public Opinion Using Online Sock Puppets
Also see: "HBGary, Palantir, Prism, Facebook & The Industrial Surveillance Complex" "A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters" There's a strange subte
Google’s Dark Alliance with ALEC
Also see: "Get Facebook, Google and Yelp Out Of ALEC!" Google and other tech giants have reportedly teamed up with the pro-corporate ALEC to draft model le
EFF The NSA is Making Us All Less Safe
"Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into—airplanes, cars—and something we put into our bodies—pacemakers, cochl
The Evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore
How the NSA went from off-the-shelf to a homegrown "Google for packets." The National Security Agency's (NSA) apparatus for spying on what passes over the
Internet Fascism and the Surveillance State
" ... The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues. ... However, secret NSA documents reveal that their surveillan
San Jose Nancy Pelosi Defends NSA Spying & is Booed by Online Activists
June 22, 2013 SAN JOSE -- An otherwise adoring crowd of liberal activists booed and interrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday as she defe
Saugus, CA School Board Member Stephen Winkler – ‘I am not a Nazi’
"... 'Tonight, I received quite specific orders from the Lord Jehovah to continue his battle right until the end,' said Winkler. ... On his Facebook page,
Alexandre Gabriac, French Media’s ‘Favorite Fascist’
France's far-right groups have benefited from the media attention around the six-month protest against gay marriage. Alexandre Gabriac, a 22-year-old nickn
Secrets of the Conservative Media Machine
Article highlights: To borrow a Sarah Palin aphorism, after their election defeat in 2008, conservatives didn’t retreat, they “reloaded.” Instead of
Twitter ‘Hate Map’ Shows where Racist, Homophobic and Offensive Tweets Originate
Students at Humboldt State University in California individually reviewed 150,000 geocoded tweets containing racist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive ter
CISPA Permits Police to do Warrantless Database Searches
Amendment was shot down that would have required warrants before police could peruse shared information for any evidence of hundreds of different crimes. P
The Clean-Up BP Accused of Rewriting Environmental Record on Wikipedia
"... BP is not directly editing its page, but instead has apparently inserted a BP representative into the editing community who provides Wikipedia editor
Anonymous Leaks Data on BofA Execs Engaged in Spying on Private Citizens
Hacktivist group says 14GB of data includes evidence that Bank of America engaged in an effort to "spy and collect information on private citizens." Febru
Amazon.com Accused Of Hiring Neo-Nazis In Germany
By Maya Shwayder International Business Times, February 15 2013 Amazon.com(NASDAQ:AMZN) is coming under fire for hiring alleged neo-Nazi securi
Pentagon “Cyber-Warriors” Planting “False Information on Facebook”
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich Global Research, January 26, 2013 On November 22, 2012, the Los Angeles Times published an alarming piece of news entitled “C