In our focus on the digital, have we lost our sense of what being human means?
In making the machines smarter, we have sacrificed a little something of ourselves – we run the risk of being reduced to data and the decisions it drives.
Counterpunch: Police Anarchy and Technology and Criminal Justice
In the context of criminal justice, America’s faith in technological interventions is worse than misplaced; it is dangerous.
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Peacestock 2017
An eye-opening object lesson in U.S. military strength around the world with a special in depth report on Ukraine.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange Press Conference On CIA Hacking "Dark matter"(3/23/2017) (Video)
Political analysis comes after first 10 minutes or so of technical information.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange Press Conference On CIA Hacking “Dark matter”(3/23/2017) (Video)
Political analysis comes after first 10 minutes or so of technical information.
Joe Scarry | A Globally-Connected Peace Movement: What’s Stopping Us?
The biggest obstacle to a truly global peace movement may actually be the structures upon which we've leaned for so long . . . . By Joe Scarry Joe Scarry's Blog December 28, 2016 A globally connected peace movement? To learn more about Rise Up Times and support Media for the People! with a donation click More
Joe Scarry | A Globally-Connected Peace Movement: What's Stopping Us?
The biggest obstacle to a truly global peace movement may actually be the structures upon which we've leaned for so long . . . . By Joe Scarry Joe Scarry's Blog December 28, 2016 A globally connected peace movement? To learn more about Rise Up Times and support Media for the People! with a donation click More
Edward Snowden: We Are Never Farther Than a Single Election Away From a Change in Government
Snowden expressed concern about the global erosion of privacy.
Jenna McLaughlin | Spies for Hire
How the UAE is recruiting hackers to create the perfect surveillance state.
Transborder Immigrant Tool Series: Poetry Built for Survival on the U.S.- Mexico Border (Multimedia)
Poet Amy Sara Carroll wrote a series of 24 poems, titled “The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto,” which were uploaded onto cellphones equipped with simple compasses and interfaces. Each poem is a form of lyrical advice that provides readers and listeners with tools for every hour of a day spent in the pernicious borderlands between the U.S. and Mexico.
John Kiriakou | Obama Should Demand FBI Director James Comey’s Resignation Today
The FBI’s ongoing, long-term incompetence has led to the deaths of far too many Americans. San Bernardino and Orlando are only the beginning. If the FBI can’t do its job, if its only counterterrorism successes are when it entraps hapless idiots who don’t know any better and who never had any intention of committing a terrorist act, it should be scrapped.
Power Loves the Dark | Police Nationwide Are Secretly Exploiting Intrusive Technologies With the Feds’ Complicity
In Chicago, for instance, the police notoriously opposed the release of dashcam video in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, citing the supposed imperative of an “ongoing investigation.” After more than a year of such resistance, a judge finally ordered the video made public. Only then did the scandal of seeing Officer Jason Van Dyke unnecessarily pump 16 bullets into the 17-year-old’s body explode into national consciousness.