By Charlotte Graham-McLay – The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s prime minister said on Wednesday that she would meet with French leaders next month in hopes of forging an agreement between governments and technology companies aimed… Continue Reading
By Ivan Katchanovski* – Special to Consortium News The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. Five years ago, the Maidan massacre in Kiev,… Continue Reading
By Alexandra Ellerbeck and Avi Asher-Schapiro (*) NEW YORK, Apr 2019 (IPS) – After a seven-year standoff at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, British police last week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange–a development press freedom advocates had long feared. For… Continue Reading
by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge (*) – via John Pilger** The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen… Continue Reading
By Nelsy Lizarazo* ~Pressenza, International Press Agency 12.04.2019 – Quito, Ecuador Pressenza interviewed Javier Arcentales Illescas, Human Mobility Advisor of the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador, an institution that spoke today about the detention of Julian Assange, at the consulate of… Continue Reading
Dan Collyns* – The Guardian President Lenín Moreno made little secret of his desire to evict Assange from embassy building Ecuador’s decision to allow police to arrest Julian Assange inside its embassy on Thursday follows a fraught and acrimonious period… Continue Reading
Jamie Grierson, Haroon Siddique and Patrick Wintour – The Guardian Fears that WikiLeaks founder will be extradited to the US if he leaves London embassy Supporters of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gathered outside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London… Continue Reading
By Ignacio Torres* – PRESSENZA – International News Agency Santiago, Chile – Redacción Chile . The terrorist attack perpetrated by white supremacists in New Zealand has had as an even more brutal feature with the live streaming by one of the killers… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal * – Human Wrongs Watch 28 February 2019 (Wall Street International) — Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs… Continue Reading
By Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian A Commons report lays bare horrifying abuses. But the UK is no closer to regulating the far-too-powerful tech industry Death threats, bullying, mental torture, privacy invasion, election rigging, fake news, monopoly abuse: as was… Continue Reading
By Farhad Manjoo* – The New York Times A radical idea is gaining adherents on the left. It’s the perfect way to blunt tech-driven inequality. Last fall, Tom Scocca, editor of the essential blog Hmm Daily, wrote a tiny, searing post… Continue Reading
By Chakravarthi Raghavan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) GENEVA and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2019 (IPS) – In Davos in late January, several powerful governments and their allies announced their intention to launch new negotiations on e-commerce. Unusually, the intention is… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures As population growth booms and slows, the only constant is panic The United States appears to be facing a possible population crisis. Statistics from the National Institutes for Health show that the U.S. birthrate… Continue Reading
By Craig Timberg , Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin – The Washington Post Months after President Trump took office, Russia’s disinformation teams trained their sights on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Having worked to help get… Continue Reading
Hazel Henderson * – Ethical Markets Media We humans are at the absurd stage in our technological evolution when we seem to have abandoned our common sense. Billions are spent by governments, corporations and investors in training computer-based algorithms (i.e.… Continue Reading
