‘Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Orrin Hatch are now in a stand-off over a bill that would put secretive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on the Fast Track to passage through Congress. […]
‘More than 82,000 people have signed a petition against the government’s plans to sell B.C.’s water for $2.25 per million litres. “It is outrageous,” says the online petition from SumOfUs.org, that corporations can buy water […]
A mother who has taken flight with her son to prevent his circumcision could face a prison sentence if she fails have the boy undergo the procedure, a judge ruled, in a case that has […]
‘A new batch of Snowden documents offer an unprecedented look into the close relationship of the surveillance agencies of the so-called “Five Eyes” nations and how a close look at a secretive base in New […]
‘Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has criticized proposed anti-terrorism legislation for affording government “excessive” powers to sweep up information from all Canadians with neither due oversight nor the necessary privacy safeguards. The legislation, Bill C-51, was introduced […]
‘The French cartoonist Zeon was arrested Tuesday morning by four police officers of the Brigade of Repression of Delinquency People (BRDP). At 7 am, four police officers woke the cartoonist to take him before the […]
‘Cops have raided Tory Lord Leon Brittan’s homes over alleged child abuse – just SIX weeks after he died. Detectives swooped on the former Home Secretary’s properties in London and North Yorkshire, the Sunday Mirror […]
‘We don’t normally think of charging our phones as a two-way street. Plug in your device and you get energy, end of story. The most you’ll pay is a few more dimes on your electricity […]
‘In 2007, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton denounced the Bush administration practice of hiding official correspondence from the public using private email servers — a practice she replicated less than two years later. . ‘
‘The therapeutic potential of cannabis appears limitless, extending far beyond just relieving nausea or pain in the terminally ill. Christina Sanchez, a molecular biologist from Compultense University in Madrid, Spain, has been studying the molecular […]
‘When it’s inflicted upon females, the civilized world calls it genital mutilation and child abuse. But for males, the medical procedure known as circumcision is still widely performed and accepted (at least in the U.S.), […]
‘It’s always heartbreaking to hear of a young child who is battling cancer, but in the case of three-year-old Weston Lamarre, it’s a particularly tragic story because he has been separated from his mother, Wendy, […]
‘City officials agreed to end water fluoridation in a New Jersey town after the mayor spoke out against the practice. “The township will end its mass medication of the public by ending the use of […]