TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
When a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United in 2010, it reshaped the political landscape by opening the floodgates to what is known as “dark money.” Unlimited amounts of secret cash can now be funneled to political candidates from entities posing as nonprofit organizations, and the public has no right to Read More…
Though the FBI claimed for months it was only concerned with unlocking the iPhone of the suspected San Bernardino shooter in its legal battle with Apple, the bureau just agreed to help Arkansas prosecutors break into an iPhone and iPod belonging to two murder suspects. “This case was never about one phone,” Evan Greer, campaign Read More…
A crucial new study says the ubiquitous and dubious war on drugs has, in actuality, been detrimental to public health — and should be laid to rest in favor of decriminalization. Laws and policies criminalizing drugs have had “no measurable impact on supply or use,” according to the study as noted by the Independent, and Read More…
Following a long-winded, and now seemingly unnecessary campaign over the last few years to convince the public that there is no connection between vaccines and autism, the FDA released a document in which they admit that autism is a possible side-effect of the Tripedia vaccine. In typical government fashion they have released this wildly important and Read More…
San Francisco, CA – An investigation into the brutal beating of man in San Francisco’s Mission District has been launched by the Alameda County Sheriff after video showing the savage assault by police went public. Pulling no punches, Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the encounter was “reminiscent of Rodney King,” and excessive force was clearly Read More…
Oil and gas drilling has made parts of the central United States as dangerous as the most earthquake-prone regions of California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), exposing millions of people to the risk of human-induced earthquakes, known as “frackquakes.” According to new maps released on Monday by the USGS, roughly 7 million people who Read More…
Following a high-profile attempt by the FBI and Department of Justice to force Apple to hack its own security encryption features, the federal government threw in the towel on Monday as it announced that it had successfully accessed information on the iPhone belonging to one of the perpetrators of the mass shooting in San Bernadino, Read More…
With all the negativity circulating in the world today it is important to appreciate the positive whenever possible. This is one such story of a little girl who did not let the perception or age constraints in the world of business slow her down or even hinder her steps from acquiring a million dollar deal with Whole Foods Read More…
Thomas Tamm, a former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, has agreed to be publicly censured for his role in exposing the U.S. government’s warrantless wiretapping program in 2004. Almost a full decade before the world learned the name Edward Snowden, Thomas Tamm helped educate the public about the Bush administration’s program for intercepting Read More…
In an article in the New Republic in December, 1998, former UNSCOM leader Scott Ritter decried Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons experiments on human subjects. Wrote Ritter, We had received credible intelligence that 95 political prisoners had been transferred from the Abu Ghraib Prison to a site in western Iraq, where they had been subjected Read More…