Human Rights

A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers Read More

While Donald Trump and his friends in Silicon Valley are betting heavily on artificial intelligence and crypto-technologies to make a quick buck from data mining, others are cashing in on the fact that this data mining also generates real world possibilities of making money in the bricks-and-mortar world.  (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

In early May 2025, Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested for attempting to inspect the Delaney Hall detention center in his city. The center is run by GEO Group, a private prison company, on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

In late August 2025, around 500 migrants were taken to a detention center in California City in the Mojave desert some 100 miles north of Los Angeles. This former state government-run facility, which was shuttered in 2023, was re-opened under contract to CoreCivic, a private prison giant, to house a surge in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees. Read More

Plane spotters have long been able to track celebrities like Taylor Swift as well as clandestine U.S. Read More

Across the country, resistance to Trump’s maverick actions is mounting. A tidal wave of protests is unfolding notably against Big Tech companies like Amazon, Oracle, OpenAI and Palantir as well as other Trump administration-affiliated businesses like CoreCivic, CSI Aviation, GEO Group and Energy Transfer. (Click here for the table of contents of MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers.)  Read More

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement called for a boycott of supermarket chain Carrefour in 2022 over company ties to illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Carrefour profits plummeted in the last fiscal year after its Israeli subsidiary publicly supported soldiers involved in Israel’s ongoing genocide against Gaza. Read More

Two new troves of internal documents from Palantir, a data surveillance company based in Colorado, have shone a light on how computer programmers are designing new software to help the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) track and deport thousands of people. Read More

Facebook shut down its eight year-old fact checking program this month provoking a slew of criticism that the social media giant was bowing to pressure from the incoming U.S. presidency of Donald Trump, who will take office on January 20. Read More

Some three quarters of the word’s supply of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children as young as 10 years old help extract the metal from hand dug shafts in the Tilwezembe mine in Katanga province. Read More