James Corbett’s latest issue of #SolutionsWatch goes over the key tools you need to for internet research in the new normal age. https://off-guardian.org/2021/07/28/watch-research-tools-you-should-know-about/

by Vasko Kohlmayer Not being able to cancel the approaching Freedom Day, they still found a way to throw a monkey wrench into the works. That monkey wrench is a contact tracing app. In the last month, the app has been busily sending quarantine orders to millions of Britons who have come into proximity to […]

Warning that companies that claim to protect national security are the “greatest danger” to it, Edward Snowden has urged the dismantling of this ‘Insecurity Industry’ by banning trade in intrusive software and penalizing enablers. In a searing post on his blog, ‘Continuing Ed’, the NSA whistleblower pointed to the Pegasus scandal as a “turning point” that exposed the “fatal consequences” of […]

Pro-censorship anti-bigotry (sic) group the Anti-Defamation League has partnered with PayPal to “fight hate” by cutting off its financing. But its definition of “hate,” criticized as expansive and fungible, has prompted concerns. The ADL and PayPal have banded together to “fight extremism and hate” by limiting users’ ability to donate money using the popular online payment processor, […]

Press Secretary says Biden admin is “flagging disinformation” which social media giant then removes’ Kit Knightly Government agencies are flagging posts as “misinformation” for Facebook. Essentially telling internet companies who to censor. We’ve always suspected as much, but now they’ve actually admitted it. Reader comment: Mark Jul 26, 2021 2:01 AM Reply to  Researcher The […]

Virginia Kruta A series of stumbles, repeated phrases and rambling answers dogged President Joe Biden as he joined CNN anchor Don Lemon for a town hall Wednesday. https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1418019482912624644 Throughout the event — which was held at Cincinnati’s Mount St. Joseph University — Biden’s apparent difficulties reining in his own train of thought prompted a wave of […]

Robert Bridge Such outrageous orders, which flog the concept of human rights into a bloody joke, could lead some free-thinking people who still inhabit this planet to entertain some cynical conclusions. For example, could it be that the Australian authorities, who have embraced some of the most draconian anti-Covid regulations in the world (authorities in […]

A number of international papers report today on the Israeli hacking company NSO which sells snooping software to various regimes. The software is then used to hijack the phones of regime enemies, political competition or obnoxious journalists. All of that was already well known but the story has new legs as several hundreds of people […]

Karen Hunt A year ago, I was living in Luxor, Egypt, having all kinds of wild adventures while my friends back home were locked in their houses and apartments. I’ve written about those experiences in a series of three essays here. Like most people, I already accepted that not everything I read in the news was […]