“Torture Is State Terror” UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
On Thursday November 14th Derrick Broze talked with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee “There is no Oligarchy in the United States”
On Veterans Day 2014 HFT member Derrick Broze asks Congresswoman her thoughts on Cannabis for treating veterans with PTSD. He also asks her opinion on a recent Princeton study that found that the [...]
Amnesty, EFF, Privacy International Put Out Free Anti-Surveillance Tool
TechCrunch Resistance is digital. Human rights charity Amnesty International is one of several organizations behind the release of a free, open source anti-surveillance tool called Detekt. Other [...]
Whatsapp Just Switched on End-to-End Encryption for Hundreds of Millions of Users
Wired Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After he emigrated to the U.S. and created his [...]
Who’s Afraid of the Surveillance State?
VICE Fictional surveillance states are thrilling and almost never subtle. Dictators are ubiquitously projected on vast public monitors, “thought criminals” are dragged away screaming [...]
US Navy Considering Discharge of Nurse Who Followed Ethics & Refused to Force-Feed Guantanamo Prisoner
FDL An attorney for a United States Navy nurse facing potentially severe repercussions for refusing to force-feed a Guantanamo Bay prisoner has indicated that the nurse, who has served nearly 18 [...]
Drone operators had Bin Laden in crosshairs a year before 9/11
RT The first American to ever launch a drone strike from an armed unmanned aerial vehicle now says he had Osama Bin Laden in his crosshairs in 2000, a full year before the terrorist attacks of [...]
Michael Brown death could hasten Houston police body cameras
Chron.com The shooting of a black teenager in Missouri by a white police officer has prompted Houston Police Chief Charles A. McClelland, Jr., to push forward with a plan to have every officer [...]
She Hasn’t Made Any Trash In 2 Years. This Is What Her Life Is Like
CE What if you could live without producing any trash? Would you do it? At first you might think this is impossible or very hard, and it may very well be depending on your life situation. But one [...]
Is the Tide Beginning to Turn on StingRays?
ACLU In a welcome turn of events, courts are beginning to push back on the government’s secretive use of StingRay devices, an intrusive cell phone surveillance technology. Courts are making clear [...]
