Police State

At Least 70 Countries Have Engaged in Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds

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An office that Facebook set up in Dublin to monitor misuse of the platform. Oxford researchers said the company’s efforts were not enough to curb disinformation campaigns. Credit: Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times
Prison Recidivism: Causes and Possible Treatments

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Revealed: How Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists

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Monsanto ‘fusion center’ officials wrote lengthy reports about singer Neil Young’s anti-Monsanto advocacy. Photograph: Dan Steinberg/REX/Shutterstock
Alarm over voter purges as 17 million Americans removed from rolls in two years

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The disproportionate purging of voters has resulted in an estimated 1.1 million fewer voters between 2016 and 2018, the Brennan Center said. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
Hong Kong Police Fire Rubber Bullets As Protests Turn Violent

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Return of the Poll Tax

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'Protesters as terrorists': growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime

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Seven US states have passed laws that ratchet up the penalties for activists protesting. - Susie Cagle/The Guardian

Criminalizing Dissent: When Peaceful Protest Became A Crime

After the coordinated nationwide eradication of Occupy encampments, the government has used the courts to harass and neutralize Occupy activists, forcing them to accept felony charges with long probation terms.

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Why Is Blackwater Helping To Train Brazil’s World Cup Security?

More than 170,000 security personnel will be on hand at the summer soccer tournament, some of them trained by a private U.S. security firm with a dark history.

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Major Corporations Announce $60 Million Divestment from Private Prisons

Thanks to sustained pressure from ColorOfChange, this may be the first time that a series of corporations have confirmed divestment from private prisons.

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Victims of Police Entrapment, NATO 3 Sentenced to Multiple-Year Jail Terms

Three activists accused of plotting to firebomb high-profile targets during the 2012 NATO Summit were sentenced Friday.

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Former Google Programmers Say Enough Surveillance – It's Time to Build a New Internet

Unrestrained data collection by private companies and the government is threatening the very nature of how the Internet – and, likewise, the companies that populate it – was intended to run.

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FBI Used No-Fly List to Bully Muslims Into Becoming Informers

Naveed Shinwari hasn’t seen his wife in 26 months. He suspects it’s because he refused to become an informant for the FBI.

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Inmates Strike in Alabama – Declare Prison Is “Running a Slave Empire”

Inmates will refuse work, calling for education, rehabilitation and an end to overcrowding, life sentences without parole – and “the free labor system.”

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