Category Archives: Newsletter and Updates

Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested code directly into the Treasury’s payment infrastructure — a system that handles over $6 trillion in federal payments annually. It seems reasonable to call it one of the most dangerous…Continue reading “A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | Techdirt”

The move is alarming California activists who worry they could be placed in the ordinance’s crosshairs for helping their homeless neighbors. — Read on calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/02/fremont-ordinance-aid-abet/

Columbia University proposes cutting incoming PhD cohorts in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences by up to 65%, according to faculty sources. Columbia University’s austerity measure furthers its ongoing divestment from its educational mission to maximize revenue from fossil fuels, military weapons, and Columbia’s real estate empire. — Read on docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTcobK8i9hTMHxr7JOXsfB9GnfL7W7_pzLeAdSBU95T11vLAbnk7JLU3k1mrGtkILzfzsKiOik22-w7/pub

Ukraine’s army chief condemned a spate of violent attacks on draft officers, rallying in defence of a national call-up effort that has fuelled anger among some Ukrainians and struggled to generate sufficient frontline manpower. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-military-urges-tough-response-after-attacks-draft-officers-2025-02-03/

INAUGURAL JOINT STATEMENT The Hague Group, January 31, 2025 — Read on thehaguegroup.org/

The Biden administration leaves a sprawling and well-resourced deportation machine to Donald Trump, who is promising mass expulsion — Read on prismreports.org/2025/01/15/biden-immigration-migrant-deaths/

A beloved fixture on the airwaves in Philadelphia, including a 25-year tenure at WRTI, Bob Perkins died on Jan. 19. He was 91. — Read on http://www.wrti.org/arts-desk/2025-01-19/bob-perkins-a-legend-of-jazz-radio-at-wrti-and-beyond-dies-at-91

A new report from the British Palestinian Committee (BPC) lays bare the extent of the UK’s military involvement in the Israeli assault on Gaza – a campaign of violence that, exactly one year ago, led the the International Court of Justice to warn of genocide. — Read on britpalcommittee.co.uk/uk-israel-military-collaboration

Human rights experts condemn detention of prominent Palestinian journalist. — Read on electronicintifada.net/content/switzerland-deports-eis-ali-abunimah/50337

Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told his members Sunday that Congress will have to respond this year to the various issues affecting farmers. Duvall pressed for action on the farm bill, agricultural labor, trade and tax cuts. — Read on http://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2025/01/26/afbf-president-zippy-duvall-urges-ag