It’s a side of the debate that most of the world has never heard. The pro-gun lobby is the domain of right-wing, conservative Republicans in America. Or is it? The Socialist Rifle Association is everything the stereotypical gun community isn’t, apart from their steadfast commitment to bear arms. Since forming in …
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A broad coalition of privacy and civil rights groups, consumer protection and antitrust advocates on Monday demanded a ban on the practice of “surveillance advertising” by tech giants, striking at the core of a “toxic” business model they said was “undermining democracy.” Nearly 40 organizations have called for reforms to …
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The incident occurred on Friday night in downtown Montreal, where Vancouver resident Chris Elston said he was having a “peaceful conversation” with a local man when about seven “thugs” swarmed him. Video footage shows several assailants, including at least one woman, pursuing Elston and another man, hitting them with traffic …
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Several dozen officers reportedly entered the convention hall of the Izmailovo Hotel in eastern Moscow shortly after the event started, interrupting the opening speech by the former mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman. Footage from the scene showed one of the officers announcing that the meeting was illegal due to being …
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A new statement from whistleblower-supporting organization the Courage Foundation complains that the leadership of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has failed to properly address accusations of a coverup involving the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Instead it tried to “side-step the …
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Blockchain company Injective Protocol paid $95,000 for the art titled ‘Morons (White)’ – which features an auction for a painting that reads, “I can’t believe you morons actually buy this sh*t” – before setting it on fire and recording the destruction live. The art is now solely available as an …
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While there are currently believed to be no members of the group in the country, Australia’s national security officials have been expressing increasing concern over the threat of far-right extremism in recent months, with a gathering of white supremacists back in January sparking calls for the group and other far-right …
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CRT “is a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud,” the Chinese American Citizens Alliance (CACA) of Greater New York said in a statement on Tuesday. It is “racist, repressive, discriminatory, and divisive” from its very roots, while posing as sensitivity training, anti-racism and diversity, equity and inclusion. The group described CRT as …
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The group is one of many in Israel that stands accused of spreading misinformation about vaccines against Covid-19 and causing a slowdown in the pace of immunization in the country. Israel has vaccinated some 43 percent of its population with at least one shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but some …
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In a lengthy resignation letter posted on Friday evening, Schmidt took credit for the group’s “decisive role” in President Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat and said he was leaving because the organization’s board is made up of “four middle-aged white men” and needs a female member for the sake of …
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