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ACLU Urges Justice Department to Investigate Police Use of Face Recognition WASHINGTON, October 18, 2016 — The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter (see PDF) today to the Justice Department urging it to investigate the increasing use and impact of face recognition by police....
Posted: Sun, Oct 23, 2016 11:45pm PDT
Is the US election rigged? The US media and political establishment have been consumed over the past two days with denunciations of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s allegations that the presidential election is “rigged” in favor of his rival, Hillary Clinton....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2016 5:42am PDT
Philippines: Duterte’s first 100 days 
Greater than the sum of our fears...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2016 4:04am PDT
Puerto Rico Governor Submits Fiscal Plan to Oversight Board Puerto Rico's Governor is expected to submit a fiscal plan to the new Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board when it meets in New York....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2016 7:46am PDT
The Surveillance State Descends on the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp 
October 10, 2016 - For the past six months, at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers, history has been made at one of the largest international gatherings of indigenous people in recent history. Representatives from well over 100 indigenous nations and thousands of people have camped, prayed, and taken action in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on and near the tribe’s sovereign land in North Dakota....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2016 4:14pm PDT
IEN responds to U.S. Court of Appeals Injunction Denial to Halt DAPL Construction within 20 Miles of Missouri River 
Cannon Ball, ND, October 10, 2016 - The U.S. Court of Appeals Sunday night rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for a temporary injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline thru traditional unceded Oceti Sakowin treaty lands near the Missouri River. The three-judge panel issued its decision Sunday after hearing oral arguments from lawyers representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and pipeline developers Energy Transfer Partners earlier this week. The decision was...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2016 3:11am PDT
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue fight against pipeline despite court setback 
U.S. Court of Appeals denies injunction that would have halted construction during appeal process...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2016 3:02am PDT
“Dirty” Duterte The Bloody New Face Of Bourgeois Democracy In The Philippines 
The Philippines, whose economy was once primarily agricultural, has recently experienced a significant industrialization. In 1980, over 37% of exports were agricultural products; in 2015 they accounted for no more than 7%, while industrial products accounted for over 70% of exports (electronic products alone represented 44% of exports)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 11:06am PDT
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman's Statement Following U.S. Court of Appeals Hearing 
On October 5, 2016, Chairman Dave Archambault II of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe read the following statement after a court hearing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit regarding the Tribe’s request for an injunction to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline during the appeal process. A ruling wasn’t issued, keeping the temporary halt to construction in place until the court decides....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 2:57pm PDT
Puerto Rico Oversight Board Holds First Meeting The newly created Puerto Rico economic oversight board holds its first meeting and will elect a chair on September 30 in New York City. Congress created the 7-member board as part of legislation to address the island's debt crisis. An independent group of academics, lawyers, finance experts and civic leaders formed a task force to monitor the oversight board and the progress of the Puerto Rico debt legislation....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2016 7:50am PDT
New Report: Biased International Observers Failed Haiti in 2015 
New Report: Biased International Observers Failed Haiti in 2015, Neutrality and Independence Essential for Upcoming October Elections...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 5:34pm PDT
Causes of Great Problems Faded out in Elections Elections today have one thing in common: they don't change anything. Pseudo-battles dominate in which the actors are intensely focused on evading the burning questions and diverting the electorate from the real causes of problems. The methods are not new. Prejudices are exploited, scapegoats built and fears fomented. The main problem of our time that should be at the center of every election campaign is the rapid increase of social inequality....
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 6:01am PDT
United Nations Expert Validates Standing Rock Sioux Opposition To Dakota Access Pipeline Cannon Ball, North Dakota (23 Sept. 2016) – United Nations Expert, the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, released a statement yesterday calling upon the United States to immediately halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, in recognition of dire and direct threats to the drinking water, burial grounds and sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux people....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2016 12:39pm PDT
Leonard Peltier on Solidarity with Standing Rock 
Greeting Sisters and Brothers: I have been asked to write a SOLIDARITY statement to everyone about the Camp of the Sacred Stones on Standing Rock. Thank you for this great honor. I must admit it is very difficult for me to even begin this statement as my eyes get so blurred from tears and my heart swells with pride, as chills run up and down my neck and back. I’m so proud of all of you young people and others there....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 4:59pm PDT
Monopolization of mass media market – the course to power usurpation in Moldova 
Possible adoption of the scandalous amendments to the Code on Television and Radio by the parliament of Moldova on the eve of the presidential elections in the country is subject for serious concern of the international community....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2016 3:34am PDT
Honduras - 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections May Pivot On Substance 
In The U.S.A. We Vote The Politics Of Fear, The Prevailing Mythology:
Vote Your Fears Not Your Values – but wait Bernie Supporters!
What is it people are afraid of? This isn't Honduras. Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya recently announced on August 26, 2016, that his wife Xiomara Castro will run for the left-wing LIBRE Party in the 2017 presidential elections.” This is the second time that Castro will run for the presidency. She did so in 2013, but lost to Hernandez in a controversi...
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2016 2:30pm PDT
Pennsylvanians: No Tax Dollars for Dakota Access Pipeline 
Hundreds of activists are calling on state leaders to send a message by dropping their investments in one of the companies behind the controversial Bakken pipeline....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2016 6:13pm PDT
North Dakota’s Governor Declared a State of Emergency to Deal With Peaceful Oil Pipeline Protesters 
We Call It a State of Emergency for Civil Rights....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2016 2:15pm PDT
Chief Baker issues statement on Standing Rock ruling 
TAHLEQUAH, Okla., September 9, 2016 — Late Friday afternoon, a federal judge denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s motion to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. Just minutes later, the U.S. Department of Justice, Department of the Army and Department of the Interior issued a joint statement announcing a temporary halt to work on the pipeline....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 9:27am PDT
Authorities Must Protect Peaceful Protest Following Ruling on Dakota Access Pipeline September 9, 2016 - While a federal court has ruled construction on a disputed pipeline in North Dakota can go forward, authorities must continue to protect the right to peaceful protest....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 3:24am PDT
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