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Aurora Police Killed Without Consequence, Now Their Protestors Face 48 Years for “Kidnapping” Cops

The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through -- the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle -- and to think that this is what you risk when you stand up against them. - Lillian House, Aurora Activist and Defendant
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The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism

The so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which the world's most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients.
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For FinTech Magnates: Digital Dollars for the Poor, Exponential Profits for the Rich

The recent incursion by FinTech companies into the banking sector and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen's implicit endorsement of a fully digital currency might be the end of banks as we know them.
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Twitter’s Attempt to Suppress Grayzone Reporting Backfires as Warning Label Becomes Meme

“The new Twitter scare label illustrates the threat our kind of factual reporting presents to a national security state that must employ social media censorship to conceal its agenda from the public.” -- The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal
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A Good Start: Minnesota’s Return of Dakota Land Makes Space for Healing

While most Native communities in Minnesota, such as the Ojibwe and others fighting pipeline projects through their land recognize that their fight for sovereignty is far from over, the land transfer to the Lower Sioux is a good, if small start in countering centuries of whitewashed history.
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