The Government Shutdown Exposes Another Reason to Abolish the TSA
By Ryan McMaken The Transportation Security Administration, a federal agency, is facing a no-show problem with employees, as paychecks are put on hold during the…
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Chinese Authorities Go After Citizens For Using VPNs, Skirting Online Censorship
By Oiwan Lam Two Chinese internet users are currently facing punishment for doing what an estimated 1-3% of people living in mainland China do every…
NewsGuard Launches War on Alternative Media
By Whitney Webb (MPN) — Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie…
15 Quotes By Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts That Show Why Ideas Are So Dangerous To The State
By Isaac Davis “Silk Road was supposed to be about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness, however…
The Shutdown Is Providing Evidence Of Private Businesses Making Government Obsolete
By Mac Slavo The government shutdown is just providing more evidence that the government itself is unnecessary. Private companies in the Yellowstone area are voluntarily…
UAE Court Upholds 10-Year Sentence Of Ahmed Mansoor For Criticizing The Government On Social Media
By Joziah Thayer Last week the State Security Court in the United Arab Emirates upheld a 10-year jail sentence of human rights activist and poet…
Pennsylvanians Should Know How The State Police Is Monitoring Social Media
By Andrew Christy, Criminal Justice and Poverty Attorney, ACLU of Pennsylvania “Sunshine is the best disinfectant.” That’s a line that is used so much that…
Border Patrol And The TSA Allowed To Secretly Spy On Everyone’s Social Media Accounts
By MassPrivateI The U.S. Border Patrol (CBP) and the TSA claim they need to secretly spy on everyone’s social media accounts so they can understand…
The Dangers of Negative Interest Rates and a Cashless Economy
By Richard M. Ebeling The recent gyrations in the stock market and the uncertainties surrounding American trade policies with China and other parts of the…
“The Punisher” Creator Blasts Cops for Using Logo, Says It Represents “Failure” of Law Enforcement
By Matt Agorist The man behind the comic book anti-hero, The Punisher, recently gave an interview to SYFY.com in which he put police on blast for continuing…
“Internet of Roads” — Colorado Goes All-in With Increased Radiation and Surveillance
By Kevin Samson Evidently, a test run for smart pavement in Colorado that I reported on back in May 2018 was successful enough to give…
French Government Moves to Impose a Police State in Response to Gilets Jaunes
By Kurt Nimmo Marking up the Arc de Triomphe, smashing the face of the Marianne statue, a symbol of the French state, and trashing private…
How Times Have Changed: Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Wins The 2018 Olof Palme Human Rights Prize—48 Years Later
By Catherine J. Frompovich An incredible, but late, distinction and well-placed honor has been awarded to one of the preeminent whistleblowers in history, the now-87-year-old…
Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional
By John W. Whitehead “For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but…