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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Denver Takes Bold Step Toward Humane and Progressive Drug Policy... Again
The city's narrow vote to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms signals a significant shift in perspective – and insight – into personal, nonviolent drug use.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 4.0: Consumer Data Harvesting Has Gone Too Far
The company strives to intimately understand its customers by harvesting consumer data at unprecedented levels – ironically, without the consent or the acknowledgement of its customers.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying and Bribing To Secure Market Dominance
The amount that Amazon has spent purchasing political influence has recently skyrocketed – quadrupling from the $3 million it spent on lobbying in 2013 to $14.4 million last year.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 2.0: Our Government’s Faustian Bargain for Cloud Storage
Amazon provides is unmatched providing cloud storage to our federal government, gubernatorial organizations and local municipalities, with over 2,000 agencies now dependant on AWS.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 1.0: Bolstering the Surveillance State with Rekognition
The potential abuse of this software for surveillance and data harvesting purposes is so troubling that some of Amazon’s shareholders have pleaded with the company to forgo selling its facial recognition technology to the government.
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Regime Change In Venezuela, But Human Suffering Continues
Our country is so divided, on so many issues, yet intervening in foreign countries is a united addiction we just can’t tear ourselves away from.
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In Fight for Internet Freedom, Community Broadband Is Comcast's Achilles Heel
In cities and communities with a municipal broadband utility, local government provides internet access to all citizens, treating it as a public utility that is city-owned and city-operated – much like electricity, water and garbage pick-up.
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As New Pipelines Get Built, More People Are Standing In the Way
From lockdowns and physical protests to legal challenges and other creative tactics, citizens are stepping up to hold pipeline companies accountable for their actions, and for their lies.
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Journalists Who Want Online Privacy Need To Read This Guide
It is imperative that journalists protect themselves as they continue to pursue their important work in the face of growing government control. The Online Privacy for Journalists guide helps them do just that.
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How "Team Internet" Is Mobilizing Activists Nationwide Against FCC Threat to Net Neutrality
The battle for net neutrality heats up this month as Demand Progress and Fight for the Future team up with Netflix, Reddit, Vimeo and others in nationwide actions within a powerful, growing coalition: Team Internet.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
Posted 1 month 3 weeks ago
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
Posted 3 weeks 6 days ago
The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
Posted 3 days 12 hours ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
