7 Signs You’re Not Living in the ‘Land of the Free’
Paul A. Philips – Some people still believe this is a free country.
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Technetronic Enslavement: Life Inside the Matrix of Control
Patrick Henningsen – Nine out of ten experts agree: this very well could be mankind’s last stand.
4 Truly Important Items for Your Post-Election List of Things to Protest
Dylan Charles – Americans should be out protesting the government, but for these meaningful reasons.
Distracted by Election 2016, No-one Resisted the Deep State’s Patriot Act 2
Nathaniel Mauka – The government can now declare you a cyber-threat, simply for sending an email.
Big Brother Teams up With Fast Food in the Surveillance State
Vic Bishop – Surveillance is conditioning people into a mindset that it’s ok for corporations to track their every move.
This is What Government Sponsored Mass Surveillance is Doing to Your Mind
Alex Pietrowski – Research into the effects of government spying proves how dangerous it is to the individual.
Why is the Government Installing Mysterious Boxes On Utility Poles?
Derrick Broze – All around the nation, mysterious technology is being installed in our cities and neighborhoods.
The Business of War is the Cause of War
Sergey Baranov & Ethan Indigo Smith – Is it good for the people or good for business?
7 Points That Prove How Dangerous Cell Phones Are to Humankind
Bernie Suarez – 7 top reasons why cell phones are terrible for society.
What Is This GWEN Tower Really For?
Aaron Dykes & Melissa Dykes – What exactly are these mysterious towers being used for?
Why Use Smart Meters When Analog Meters Are Safe?
Catherine J. Frompovich – Analog electric meters are proven to be safe, so why are they pushing smart meters on us?
Is the Surveillance State in America Really a Threat to Freedom?
Film – William Binney speaks out in this feature-length interview with Tragedy and Hope’s Richard Grove, focused on the topic of the ever-growing surveillance state in America. Is our freedom really at stake?
All the Creepy Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
John W. Whitehead – Today, there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home.
Should We Fear or Embrace Brain Wave Sensing Technology?
Video – These videos show two novel products that use brain wave sensing technology, but should we be concerned about mental surveillance?
Big Brother Is Watching You: Paranoia, Surveillance, and the Drug War
Brian Macaulay, The Fix Waking Times Police have new tech to help them predict and enforce the law better than ever—but that also means enforcing the racial bias of drug arrests faster than ever, too. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” wrote Joseph Heller in 1961’s Catch-22. At the time, this comic statement …
5 Big Brother Technologies for Tracking and Surveilling Children
Terence Newton, Staff Writer Waking Times Without much of a mentionable public debate about the implementation of police state surveillance and tracking technologies in our society, we are quickly moving into an era where personal liberty and privacy do not exist. For those of us who grew up without being monitored and tracked everywhere we …
How Your Local Library Can Help You Resist the Surveillance State
Melissa Morrone, Waging Nonviolence Waking Times A woman was trying to apply for a job at a major retailer. She had to fill out an online form that prompted her to create a username and password, and then enter personal information down to the last four digits of her Social Security number.“How do you know …
Spying, Prying & Lying: The Rise of Global Digital Surveillance
Patrick Henningsen, New Dawn Waking Times “Books have been written about [US] President Eisenhower’s famous farewell warning in 1961 about the ‘military-industrial complex,’ and what he described as its ‘unwarranted influence.’ But an even greater leviathan today, one that the public knows little about, is the ‘intelligence-industrial complex.’” – Michael Hirsh, National Journal1 In our interconnected …
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet Waking Times Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the …
On the Outskirts of Crypto City — The Architecture of Surveillance
Ingrid Burrington, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times In a small park next to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md., signs explain rules about photographs one can take — and illustrate the kind of photo one isn’t allowed to take. (WNV/Ingrid Burrington)Mass surveillance has an image problem. The visual references commonly used to portray …