President Obama has repeatedly pledged to protect Internet freedoms. But under rules just proposed by Obama’s hand-picked FCC chairman, Internet providers will be able to speed up access to sites willing to pay top dollar, while slowing down your connection to everyone else. With a vote on the new rules in two weeks, a new coalition is mobilizing millions to pressure the FCC.
Two major banks, Bank of America and HSBC, have determined that certain clients are not worth their time: Africans. In what is believed to be a response to improved US regulations requiring banks to monitor for suspicious activity, the banks have decided that providing services to African embassies is just not worth it. Find out what you can do.
The Strauss Group, a food and beverage multinational, has spent three decades openly supporting elite Israeli army units accused of committing severe human rights abuses against Palestinians. But after activists raised the red flag last month, the company quietly tried to hide any evidence of their military relationships.
You live in a complex city. One of the gangs on the other side of town has been systematically killing as many blue eyed residents in their neighborhood as possible. They have also started a…
We’ve all heard of the film Sleepless in Seattle, sildenafil full of romance and racy scenes. Now the world can feast their eyes on Boycotting in Bahrain, sale a much more dramatic saga featuring repression,…
If America’s war in Iraq came in the form of a Wikipedia article – with full control over it’s twists and turns by any unqualified or uninformed member of the public – would it look…
Ladies and gentlemen, see girls and boys, sick allow me to introduce to you the latest addition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: getting high. When the declaration was signed, ask its authors and…
Reports and rumors abound that the US has decided to give up on the underground anti-tunnel smuggling wall after welders succeeded in breaching it and border restrictions were eased.
Israel said to release foreign activists in exchange for Turkish support on the Security Council to take action against Iran's nuclear program.
