Archives

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 [...]

Statesman Michael Cargill teaches a concealed handguns safety class at his Austin firearms store while the online version of the business initiates FBI background checks on out-of-state buyers [...]

Salon Central Houston, once a bastion for the creative class, has been converted into an exclusive playland for the rich A startling change for the worse has occurred in the physical appearance [...]

Truthout For the past several years, the Houston Police Department (HPD) has been quietly using contentious surveillance equipment that can amass records from cellphone calls and text messages [...]

HOUSTON (KTRK) –The Houston Office of Inspector General, the city’s watchdog to find Houston employees wasting taxpayer dollars and breaking rules, refuses to release any information [...]

The Intercept Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution establishes an absolute free-speech right for members of Congress on the floor or in committee, even if they are disclosing classified [...]

Intercontinental Cry TRUTHOUT–For the first time in the history of Brazil, the federal government is investigating the deaths and abuses suffered by Indigenous peoples during military [...]

(Reuters) – Missouri’s governor on Tuesday named 16 members to a panel charged with making recommendations to fix social and economic inequalities in Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb [...]

Mark DeNicola Activist Post  It’s hard to deny that things are becoming increasingly challenging here on Earth. Many of us are struggling through economic hardships comparable to that of theGreat [...]

Activist Post If there is anything good to be said about mass surveillance, overcharging and monopolization by telecom/ISP companies, and government censorship including cell phone and Internet [...]