‘Scapegoat framed by US & Mexico’: El Chapo’s lawyer claims real drug lord walks free & bribes govts

Drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman had been framed by corrupt US and Mexican officials who let his chief lieutenant remain at large to lead the Sinaloa cartel instead, his defense claimed, at the start of the high-profile trial. Guzman was made a ‘scapegoat’ by a corrupt Mexican government in an American drug war, so […]

Telesur page takedown: Facebook becoming ‘US govt’s censorship vehicle’

The decision by Facebook to delete left-leaning Latin American news network Telesur’s English language page with no explanation has only added to concerns over censorship and US government interference on the platform. Having been deleted on Facebook earlier this year, Telesur had been “even more careful” with its posts and broke “absolutely none” of Facebook’s […]

‘Weapons of mass destruction:’ AI experts urge govts to ban ‘killer robots’ in apocalyptic message

Hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) specialists from Austria and Canada urge their governments to “stand against weaponizing AI.” The experts warn that a lack of action in this field would allow machines – not people – to decide who lives or dies. Hundreds of members of the Austrian and Canadian AI communities signed open letters […]

‘Abolish govts, let large cities run the world’ – ex-London Mayor Livingstone to RT

Published time: 6 Jul, 2017 20:38 Speaking to RT, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone has suggested that the world would be a better place if it were run not by governments, which are detached from their citizens, but by city authorities who know the real needs of their people. As world leaders gather for the […]

Shadow Brokers offer new secrets to ‘high rollers & govts’ after helping create WannaCry

The Shadow Brokers, a group that is thought to have stolen classified documents from the NSA that have been used to write the WannaCry malware, have offered to publish more of their document trove in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. In a message posted in deliberately garbled English, the collective said that they would […]

‘Rights are lost by cowardly laws': Snowden says govts, not terrorists, undercut free speech

Whistleblower Edward Snowden offered an impassioned argument against terrorism being used as a pretext for introducing mass surveillance in a video-linked speech to a migration conference on Tuesday night. Speaking to the Estoril conference on global migration in Portugal via video from Moscow, where he has lived for the past four years after being granted […]