On February 4, 2011, in Washington D.C., with no input from citizens or their legislatures, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper created a “North American perimeter,” and a United States-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council, composed of senior regulatory, trade, and foreign affairs officials from both governments.  They agreed to a two-year mandate during [...]

More than half of the incoming Republican caucus denies the validity of climate change science. Some 74 percent of Republicans in the U.S. Senate now take that stance, as do 53 percent of GOP in the House.  “The deniers goal is to create the perception that fundamental aspects of climate science are controversial,” write several [...]

Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Internet search engine giant Google for illegally collecting personal data such as passwords, emails, and other online activities from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in homes and businesses across the United States and around the rest of the world.  Google has claimed the data was accidentally picked up [...]

South Africa uses nanotechnology, releasing nanoparticles slowly into ones bloodstream to treat tuberculosis (TB). Researchers in South Africa are now making it possible for patients with TB to no longer have to take daily pills but instead can use nanotechnology to be treated. Although research for nanotechnology is expensive, it is believed that the benefits [...]

Despite publicly announcing that Google is not in any way condoning or assisting in the surveillance of Chinese email accounts, we can see numerous cases in which Google has assisted in government operations and the violations of human rights. Google is the provider for the software “Intellipedia,” a highly-secured online system where 37,000 US spies [...]

With American oil supplies dwindling American oil companies and Canadian pipeline builders are using riskier and more environmentally detrimental practices to get at unconventional oil reserves. These oil reserves are located in the carbon rich sands in Canada, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountain West. It is estimated if extracted the oil in these [...]

State agencies ranging from the CIA to the National Security Agency have been pouring millions of dollars into data-mining firms that claim that they have a handle on who you are or what you might do in the future. These types of invasive procedures could even affect one’s ability to get hired by an employer. [...]

BP used toxic dispersant to reduce liabilities from the gulf spill. BP’s attempt to drill at depths that are just barely possible with our current level of technology is evidence that they are gambling at the border of controllable engineering. BP’s laughable oil spill plan and inaccurate wild life assessments that included species not even [...]

Cyber Charter Schools have been expanding in numbers in the United States since 2003.  Over 190 schools are now labeled as Cyber Charter Schools. These schools are being called  “21st century learning” which advocates for a more technology based and student-centered curriculum. Cyber Charter Schools are being used as a way to undermine teachers and in particular teacher [...]

Deep packet inspection technology monitors everything that goes through the internet. It is readily available in the United States and there’s no legislation that prevents the US government from employing it. Deep packet inspection is currently used in Iran. The Iranian Government has the ability to look through everything, land line telephones, mobile telephones, email, [...]