Free software developer and privacy activist Ola Bini, who is in prison in Ecuador, reflects on the responsibilities of privilege, his commitment to privacy and the risks poses by the rise of surveillance. (Peoples Dispatch) ...
“I’m confident it will be obvious that there’s no substance to this case, and that it will collapse into nothing.” On April 11 Ecuadorian authorities arrested the Swedish cryptographer and privacy advocate Ola Bini in ...
“I think what happened at Notre-Dame is a great tragedy, but humans should be more important than stones.” On April 25 French President Emmanuel Macron announced new measures to address the ongoing “gilets jaunes” (yellow ...
“Apparently things are not going fast enough with new arms deliveries to the Yemen war coalition.” Germany is selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who are involved in the Yemen ...
“…In my view that clear and simple message should be that there should be a confirmatory vote of the British people” — former Labour foreign secretary Margaret Beckett. Despite reluctance from French President Emmanuel Macron, ...
Assange’s lawyer called his arrest a “dangerous precedent” where any journalist could face U.S. charges for “publishing truthful information about the United States.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Thursday morning at the Ecuadorian Embassy ...
Unless the incumbent Turkish political party AKP overturns the recent election results, the opposition is now in command of cities that make up 65% of Turkey’s GDP. Turkey’s local elections on March 31, 2019, resulted ...
If a second referendum comes to pass, the result will again likely be decided by the turnout of younger and older citizens of the UK On Monday, members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ...
“More and more democratically-elected leaders no longer see the media as part of democracy’s essential underpinning, but as an adversary to which they openly display their aversion.” Amal Clooney, international rights lawyer and the wife ...
“The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of our commonwealth to a permanent oil price decline.” Norway’s $1tn wealth fund – the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world – is planning to cease funding ...
The RTS headquarters were last stormed in 2000 when citizens and demonstrators forced the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic. Thousands of Serbian protesters demonstrated in Belgrade a week after entering the Serbian national broadcaster RTS offices ...
The Vatican is opening files on ‘Hitler’s Pope’ almost a decade ahead of schedule. Pope Francis has decided to open secret Vatican archives on May 2, 2020, to reveal details about the papacy of World ...
Who broke into North Korea’s embassy in Spain? The brazen attack and siege of data has prompted multiple theories. On February 22, just five days ahead of the summit between President Donald Trump and North ...
“Taking action against those who work for the ICC sends a clear message to torturers and murderers alike: Their crimes may continue unchecked,” said ICC’s Andrea Prasow. (Reuters) The United States will withdraw or deny ...
Volkswagen “repeatedly lied to and misled United States investors, consumers, and regulators as part of an illegal scheme to sell its purportedly ‘clean diesel’ cars and billions of dollars of corporate bonds and other securities.” ...
As a cargo ship sinks off the coast of France, worries of an oil spill loom. (Reuters) French authorities battled on Thursday to contain an oil slick after the Italian Grande America ship capsized in ...
Despite having a culture often more well-known for its machismo than support of women’s rights, Spain celebrated International Women’s Day with a bang and a proclamation of women’s rights. Friday was International Women’s Day and ...
Germany is extending its arms sales ban on Saudi Arabia but only until the end of March. Germany first announced its decision to impose a ban on arms sales to oil-rich Saudi Arabia last October, ...
New statements by Viktor Orban seem to have threatened his political party’s security within the European Parliament. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing backlash from the E.U. after launching a tax-payer funded elections-related media ...
Uber may be one of the most popular transportation services in the world, but its not receiving a warm welcome in Spain. Uber has stirred controversy in several American states and cities, and has had ...
As Facebook celebrates its 15th anniversary, Germany is certainly not joining in on the celebration but is instead ruling that Facebook is actually exploiting its customers. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) in Germany is the ...
Only a week after the U.S. announced it would pull out of the INF Treaty the arms race between Russia and the U.S. is already heating up. Russia announced it is racing to develop two ...
Soldiers also engaged in cover-ups by disguising civilians as militants to make operations appear legitimate. The Middle East Eye report revealed how junior officers in the British army were taught to specifically shoot such civilians ...
The Yellow Vest Movement continues to grow in Europe despite France’s recent attempt to quell protests with an anti-hooligan law. (Peoples Dispatch) French trade unions organized a general strike, and massive mobilizations on Tuesday, seeking ...
“The American threats against international judges clearly show the new political climate. It is shocking. I had never heard such a threat.” A senior judge at the United Nation’s International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) has resigned ...
(RFE/RFL) Russian officials and politicians blasted the U.S. decision to suspend its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, with one lawmaker saying Washington had “taken another step toward its destruction.” “I congratulate the ...
Will patients in the UK have access to necessary medications if no deal can be reached in Brexit? While businesses across the entire UK are bracing for impact, perhaps none are bracing more than pharmaceutical ...
Citizen Truth spoke with activists on both sides of the Yellow Vests movement to understand the motivation behind the protest now spreading across Europe. “We are France and France will be heard, I can tell ...
Madrid recently began requiring the homeless to report their income from activities such as begging, performing in the street or selling trinkets and scrap metal for taxing purposes. Social workers and advocates for the homeless ...
Spain’s drive towards bilingual education to increase their global competitiveness may be doing more harm than good. English language proficiency rates in Spain have lagged behind those of other European Union members for decades, and ...
The US and Russia are on the verge of pulling out of a crucial treaty that ended the Cold War era arms race and kept missiles out of Europe. After a meeting in Geneva between ...
Russia accuses the OPCW of being politically motivated in adding Novichok to its list of banned substances. The world’s chemical weapons watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), has agreed to include ...
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former campaign manager, is taking his politics to Europe but Europe doesn’t seem ready to welcome him with open arms. Donald Trump’s ousted campaign manager, Steve Bannon, has been touring Europe for ...
A series of reforms passed in Hungary is being called the “slave” labor law and sparking thousands to protest. Thousands of people gathered for five consecutive days of protest in Budapest last week to protest ...
How does one explain Vox’s rise in popularity? As is the case in many instances when far-right groups rise to power, the answer lies amid economic turmoil. In the recent regional parliamentary elections for the ...
Every day seems to bring another Brexit challenge for UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Her harsh words for a former PM highlight her frustrations. Last week Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May survived ...
“Anyone who has good faith should have agreed to this pact.” Last Monday, more than 150 member countries of the United Nations (U.N.), agreed on an international treaty to address the growing challenges related to ...
The French government has withdrawn the hike on fuel price taxes but the movement continues to grow. The direction this movement will take could have a vital influence on the future on France. (People’s Dispatch) ...
Sellers on the Amazon marketplace allege the company’s marketplace favors Amazon private label brands over independent sellers. The largest internet company in the world, Amazon, is being investigated for monopoly power abuse in Germany. While ...
Is fake news or a censorship more threatening to democracy? French lawmakers passed two highly controversial laws to target the publishing and circulation of fake news and their ability to influence elections. The laws empower judges ...
We’ve had enough. We have low salaries and pay too much tax and the combination is creating more and more poverty,” said French protestor Idhir Ghanes. A series of demonstrations against fuel price increases in ...
The workers in Amazon warehouses in Europe sought to highlight atrocious working conditions, including Injuries from accidents, overworked employees collapsing unconscious on the floor, constant robotic surveillance and workers having to skip toilet breaks to ...
U.S. President Donald Trump responded furiously to French President Emmanuel Macron’s idea to build up Europe’s joint forces. The billionaire tweeted his anger after arriving in Paris on Saturday to commemorate the end of World ...
As refugee numbers swell in Europe and the “Balkan route” explodes, unsanitary and overcrowded camps are forcing migrants into clashes with police. Refugees at the Croatian border clashed with police in the last week of ...
Animal rights activists in Greece have achieved an important milestone in protecting donkeys on the tourist island of Santorini. Greek lawmakers have banned overweight and obese tourists from riding on donkeys. The move came after ...
Greece has charged members of a migrant rescue group with human trafficking in an effort to crack down on the organization’s aid to refugees crossing the Aegean Sea. At least four humanitarian workers and members ...
The murder of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova is the third death of a prominent journalist in the European Union in the last year. The body of Viktoria Marinova, a 30-year-old Bulgaria TV journalist, was found ...
True LGBT+ inclusivity means more than a few rainbow posters along school corridors, argues Elly Barnes – and it starts with a serious commitment to training… Homosexuality was partially decriminalized in the UK 51 years ...
“I’ve said from the start that I don’t want cost to be a barrier,” Ireland’s health minister said about the country’s new policy to allow abortions in the country. The health minister of Ireland, Simon ...
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