11 August 2019 — Truthout – Common Dreams
Civil liberties groups are warning that the order poses a major threat to online freedoms and First Amendment rights.
Civil liberties groups are warning of a major threat to online freedoms and First Amendment rights if a leaked draft of a Trump administration edict—dubbed by critics as a “Censor the Internet” executive order that would give powerful federal agencies far-reaching powers to pick and choose which kind of Internet material is and is not acceptable—is allowed to go into effect.
Students, workers, public officials, police and military personnel are marching together in rejection of the U.S. economic blockade against Venezuela.
Summary of new UN report that documents the impact of climate change on land and agriculture — and how land misuse accelerates climate change.
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. We have poisoned the rivers and oceans, destroyed natural habitats, driven wildlife species to (the edge of) extinction and have altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere with seemingly devastating effects.
