Protecting Your Digital Life in 7 Easy Steps
In a recent Medium post, Quincy Larson, the founder of Free Code Camp, an open-source community for learning to code, detailed the reasons it might be useful for people to make their personal data more difficult for attackers to obtain….
Whistleblowers – Heroes or traitors?
Snowden, Assange, Manning. A piece of art in Berlin representing the three famous whistleblowers is meant to encourage citizens to speak out. For some people these whistleblowers are heroes. For others, especially the US administration, they are traitors. Chelsea Manning…
Bitcoin and Ethereum Exchange Coinbase Granted New York BitLicense
Bitcoin and Ethereum Exchange Coinbase Granted New York BitLicense Coinbase, the San Francisco headquartered Bitcoin and Ethereum cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider, has been granted a New York virtual currency license – commonly known as a BitLicense. The regulators say…
Conservative Or Liberal? Here’s What Americans Really Believe
Reprinted with permission from The Washington Spectator. Editor’s Note: This article was submitted in September and edited three weeks prior to the election. It is based on extensive analysis of attitudinal polling from recent decades-polls which taken together indicate that…
Rural America, already hurting, could be most harmed by Trump’s promise to repeal Obamacare
Orlin Wagner/AP The health of rural America is failing, and a…
What’s behind growing economic gap?
The gap between the poor and the super rich is growing. The world’s eight richest people have the same wealth as the poorest half of the entire world. That’s according to a new report by Oxfam, which describes this trend…
Trump University Gives Millions of Dollars in Refunds
It was 2009 and the American landscape was bleak: The housing market had crashed, millions of people were in foreclosure and stocks had keeled over a cliff. Beth Wood saw her life savings, around $325,000 in home equity, evaporate in…
FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump
WASHINGTON — The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people…
Eight Men Have the Same Wealth As Poorest Half
Just eight men hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of humanity, according to new data compiled by Oxfam. Released to coincide with the annual World Economic Forum meeting of political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland,…
Corporations Move Closer to Complete US Gov. Takeover
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. “How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country” is the subtitle of a book that tells the story of a presidential election in which a candidate allowed money…