While we wait to see if and when the Senate will pass (and president will sign) Bill "H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017", which was passed by the House at the end of November with an overwhelming majority and which seeks to crack down on website...
Under the cover of battling “fake news,” the mainstream U.S. news media and officialdom are taking aim at journalistic skepticism when it is directed at the pronouncements of the U.S. government and its allies.One might have hoped that the alarm about “fake news” would re...
This piece can be seen as a continuation of "Red Alert: The War on Alternative Media Has Begun."As Democrats and Hillary Clinton supporters come to terms with a Donald Trump administration, the ‘fake news won him the election’ talking point was pushed to new heights as the ou...
Standing Rock, North Dakota (TFC) — Widespread outrage over both the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and violent police crackdowns rages on. That outrage is spreading even to police agencies now returning from deployment to the reservation. Two departments have alrea...
The months long Dakota Access Keystone XL pipleine protest at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation by Native Americans and those sympathetic to protection of our water supply has been met with heavy-handed and brutal clamp down by police and national guard.Militarized goons in ba...
It can be troublesome to acknowledge the fact that popular mainstream media outlets, and perhaps in some cases, popular alternative media outlets, are subject to large amounts of infiltration by intelligence agencies, but it’s true.This isn’t a matter of conjecture. It’s ha...
While the intent might be up for debate, the fact that our governments and businesses appear to be watching our every move isn’t.As technology increases, seemingly more and more rapidly, more data about us is stored and shared — and most of the time, we are unaware it is bein...
Agent Provocateur: a person employed to encourage others to break the law by pretending sympathy with their aims to incite them to some incriminating action so that they can be arrested. In recent years, mostly due to the rise of internet accessibility, the American people have b...
In response to my request for information on US police training, readers have sent in a variety of information that seems to fit together. I am going to assemble it as best I can as a working hypothesis or provisional account. Perhaps a former or current police officer concerned ...
Finally, we’ve reached the point where Australians are stating in droves, “Enough is enough!” Perhaps we’re finally just one step away from the day on which the sleeping masses revolt?This week, after ABC’s Four Corners1 reported the results of an investigation into evi...
After the Galveston Marshal’s office allegedly went rogue, refusing to obey the orders of the town’s council, the council voted this week to eliminate their police force.Dozens of protesters turned out to voice their discontent and fears about ridding the town of 1,200 of the...
If anyone needed a reminder that America has a police brutality problem, the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile provided it. Actual numbers on violent police encounters are difficult to come by, but this dearth of data is getting more attention.New research published i...