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Science professor calls for fewer humans to ‘strengthen human rights’
Science professor calls for fewer humans to ‘strengthen human rights’ Humanity must ‘act to sustain life’ by reducing fertility (voluntarily) Will there be “untold human suffering” if humans do not stop having children in order to avoid a “climate emergency?” More than 11,000 scientists signed a paper authored by an ecology professor at Oregon State […]
“It’s Not A Game When It’s Real-Life” – China’s Social Credit System
“It’s Not A Game When It’s Real-Life” – China’s Social Credit System In an attempt to imbue trust, China has announced a plan to implement a national ranking system for its citizens and companies. Currently in pilot mode, the new system will be rolled out in 2020, and go through numerous iterations before becoming official. While the system […]
A Real-Life Game of Risk: Why Civilizationism Is Biggest Threat to Human Rights in the 21st Century
A Real-Life Game of Risk: Why Civilizationism Is Biggest Threat to Human Rights in the 21st Century True liberal values and human rights face their largest threat to date, a rapidly growing system of global governance based on opportunistic alliances rooted in populism and an unfettered bid for power argues Dr. James Dorsey. Many have […]
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network,” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist and activist Suzie Dawson. NZ Spy Scandal: Elephants In The Room; US Used NZ Spies to Spy on Third Countries, Including France; US […]
California Democrat: “I Would Love To…Regulate The Content Of Speech”
California Democrat: “I Would Love To…Regulate The Content Of Speech” One California Democrat has finally admitted what we all knew, that politicians in government want to end free speech permanently. Representative Ted Lieu said he would “love to be able to regulate the content of speech” during an interview Wednesday. Lieu admitted that the only reason […]
DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine
DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt its controversial project called Dragonfly. What is Project Dragonfly? Dragonfly is a search engine specially built for China. It would unleash more censorship on a mass […]
How Gov’t Violates Human Rights using Conspiracy Theory
How Gov’t Violates Human Rights using Conspiracy Theory Ireland is now claiming it needs to pass the Magnitsky Act to defend human rights. The greatest human rights violations take place in the legal system. It was Adolf Hitler’s notorious court that everyone said violated human right because it had a 90% conviction rate against people […]
Britain’s enemy is not Russia but its own ruling class, UN report confirms
Britain’s enemy is not Russia but its own ruling class, UN report confirms Police officers search an area next to a homeless man, Windsor, Britain, October 11, 2018 © Reuters / Darren Staples As the UK political establishment rips itself to pieces over Brexit, a far greater crisis continues to afflict millions of victims of […]
European Court Rules NSA Surveillance Practices Violate Human Rights
European Court Rules NSA Surveillance Practices Violate Human Rights (ANTIMEDIA) — Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the U.K.’s GCHQ spy agency is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights with its mass surveillance programs. The court ultimately found that these activities violate the family and privacy rights of British and European citizens, and this […]
Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed!
Sustainable Development Goals: No More Complacency, Urgency Needed! “We face mounting challenges in the form of growing numbers of conflicts, rising inequality, erosion of human rights, unprecedented global humanitarian crisis….climatechange is moving faster than we are; yet we see insufficient political will to meet commitments.” Remarked UN Secretary General António Guterresin the closing of the […]
Liberty Defined
Liberty Defined Liberty means to exercise human rights in any manner a person chooses so long as it does not interfere with the exercise of the rights of others. This means, above all else, keeping government out of our lives. Only this path leads to the unleashing of human energies that build civilization, provide security, […]
Canada Frees Itself From Saudi Oil Imports
Canada Frees Itself From Saudi Oil Imports The ongoing political row between Canada and Saudi Arabia over Ottawa’s demand that the kingdom release detained women’s rights activists in the country is picking up momentum. Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia ordered the Canadian ambassador to leave Saudi Arabia “within 24 hours” after his country criticized the […]
Drones, Murder and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the Cases of Reyaad Khan and Abdul Raqib Amin
Drones, Murder and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: the Cases of Reyaad Khan and Abdul Raqib Amin Photo by Debra Sweet | CC BY 2.0 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is 70 this year. But you wouldn’t know it from the impact it’s had on human lives. For example, Donald […]
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]
European Court to Decide Whether U.K. Mass Surveillance Revealed By Snowden Violates Human Rights
Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News/Getty Images EUROPEAN COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER U.K. MASS SURVEILLANCE REVEALED BY SNOWDEN VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS BRITISH SPY AGENCIES are under scrutiny in a landmark court case challenging the legality of top-secret mass surveillance programs revealed in documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. A panel of 10 judges at the European Court […]
