"What we'll do every day is demand that the evil that's committed in our name by the evil that's living in that White House is held accountable to all the immorality that continues to perpetuate under American empire." - Aliya Hana Hussain of the Center for Constitutional Rights

Friday marked the 17th anniversary of the opening of the United States prison compound in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama failed to fulfill his promise of closing the facility and little attention has since been given to the issue by the Trump administration, but activists continue to work behind the scenes to shut down what they call the "moral abomination."

Some 30 protesters dressed in black spit hoods and orange prison jumpsuits demonstrated outside of the White House as a roster of speakers calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison demanded justice and rule of law at the enclave that was seized from Cuba in the 1903. According to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war women's group Codepink, many of the protesters had been fasting in solidarity with those still detained at Guantanamo.

One of the manliest brands in men's products has hit on an unusual strategy for divided times: Questioning "toxic masculinity."

Gillette, the Procter & Gamble Co. brand that for three decades has used the tagline, "The Best A Man Can Get," is building a new campaign around the #MeToo movement, a risky approach that will be the latest test of how successfully big consumer brands can navigate tricky social movements.

The ad, created by the brand's ad agency Grey and titled "We Believe," opens with audio of news about the #MeToo movement, bullying and "toxic masculinity." A narrator goes on to dispute the notion that "boys will be boys," asking, "Is this the best a man can get? Is it? We can't hide from it. It has been going on far too long. We can't laugh it off, making the same old excuses."

Polish police officers have detained a man who made death threats against President Andrzej Duda. The incident took place just a day after the mayor of Gdansk was stabbed to death in a shocking public attack.

A 72-year-old resident of Warsaw was arrested on Monday after he'd called a local Family Assistance Center and uttered threats against the president, police said on Twitter.

"Adamowicz died and Andrzej Duda may die tomorrow," he said, referring to the late mayor of Gdansk, who succumbed to his wounds in a hospital earlier the same day, after being stabbed on stage during a charity concert on Sunday.

In his 2008 book Flat Earth News, long before the current frenzy about 'fake news' and Russian 'disinformation', British journalist Nick Davies sought to explain why the global media contained so much 'falsehood, distortion, and propaganda.' According to Davies, up to about the 1980s, mass media was not predominantly concerned with money-making. In particular, what one might call 'serious' broadsheet newspapers were rarely profitable and often lost substantial amounts of money. They stayed in business because of the subsidies of rich proprietors who felt that owning a newspaper gave them prestige and political influence. In the 1980s Rupert Murdoch changed all that, and set about turning the mass media into a source of revenue. One way of doing this was by cutting costs, which entailed reducing payroll. Thus began a process in which the number of journalists employed by Western media organizations has plummeted. This process has accelerated in recent years, with newsroom jobs falling by 23% between 2008 and 2017 alone. At the same time, the internet has led to a vast increase in the number of media organizations. The internet has also created intense pressure to produce stories quickly. The result is fewer and fewer journalists forced to produce more and more stories faster and faster. The inevitable consequence has been a decline in quality.

Along the way, investigative journalism, which is slow and labour intensive, has fallen largely by the wayside. Instead, modern journalism has become largely a matter of cutting and pasting. Davies and his research team examined where the stories in newspapers came from. They discovered that the overwhelming majority came from two sources: a) a handful of press agencies, such as AP and Reuters; and b) press releases issued by governments and private corporations. Only a few organizations, such as the BBC, produce most of their own news reports. The majority just cut and paste from press agencies or press releases. Fact checking - which is also slow and labour intensive - has largely disappeared. In his 2006 book War Reporting for Cowards, British journalist Chris Ayres explained how the process works. Arriving in New York as the new US correspondent for the London Times, Ayres meets his predecessor. His job, she tells him, is to watch CNN and read the New York Times and then transcribe them for a British audience. Enough said!

Over 50 percent of Russians are disappointed in the government of Dmitry Medvedev, which, they believe, is unable to curb growing prices and provide jobs for people, a new poll has revealed.

Some 23 percent said they were absolutely sure that the government must resign, with another 30 percent telling Levada-Center that they were also leaning toward this opinion.

This means that a total of 53 percent would like the country to have a new cabinet. Trust in the government has crumbled since September, when only 23 percent advocated its resignation.

Meanwhile, the proportion of people who believed the government should stay in charge was 40 percent, with 14 percent expressing full confidence in the cabinet, and 26 percent saying that resignation wouldn't be the best idea.

A 12-year-old indigenous girl living in a community near Adelaide has taken her own life - making her the fifth Aboriginal girl to commit suicide in nine days.

The wave of reported suicides include three cases in Western Australia, one in Queensland, and the most recent one in South Australia.

Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy was flown on Monday from Roma to Brisbane where he is on life support in hospital after what is thought to be a suicide attempt, according to The Australian.

A man reportedly wielding a machete has been tasered and arrested on the platform of a south London railway station.

Police were called to Tulse Hill station at about 6.30pm on Monday to reports of a man in possession of a knife.

A group of officers surrounded the man and pinned him to the ground. Pictures from the scene appeared to show a large machete on the ground nearby.

The man, 59, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon.

Conor Fortune said he was on a Thameslink train siting at Tulse Hill when he heard a male voice "shouting quite loudly".

Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, allowed employees unrestricted access to the cameras inside people's homes, according to a report from the Intercept.

The Intercept reported last week that Ring "provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon's S3 cloud storage service that contained every video created by every Ring camera around the world."

"This would amount to an enormous list of highly sensitive files that could be easily browsed and viewed. Downloading and sharing these customer video files would have required little more than a click," the Intercept explained, adding that "the video files were left unencrypted," and the "Ukraine team was also provided with a corresponding database that linked each specific video file to corresponding specific Ring customers."

Ring also reportedly provided similar access to "executives and engineers in the U.S." allowing "unfiltered, round-the-clock live feeds from some customer cameras, regardless of whether they needed access to this extremely sensitive data to do their jobs."

An unnamed source told the Intercept that if an engineer "knew a reporter or competitor's email address, [they] could view all their cameras," and claimed employees joked around by spying on their co-workers' home cameras.

Many in the U.S. and around the world disapprove of how much technology is being used in school systems. However, for over a decade already, "high tech" public schools have been promoted and implemented despite the fact that Silicon Valley parents (tech inventors) have been sending their own kids to low-tech or no-tech schools and limiting their exposure to screens at homes. Now these Silicon Valley parents are reportedly even more desperate. They are actually making nannies sign "no screen" contracts and spying on them to make sure they don't break them.

Activist Post is one of countless sources that has been reporting about the many controversies stemming from tech use and exposure to children both in and out of the classroom. Tucker Carlson has weighed on this before as well. Last week, he and Michelle Malkin discussed how companies have also been collecting students' private information (aka Data Mining) through school technology.

When we think of "economic collapse" our imaginations usually lead us immediately to the desperation we've witnessed in places like Venezuela or Greece. We think of starvation, a complete lack of medical care, and waves of suicide by people who simply can't survive. We imagine an apocalyptic societal breakdown that is immediately visible.

Here in America, I suspect the collapse is going to look a lot different than it has in these other countries...at least, at first. And in my description, it's entirely likely you'll see that many of these signs have been happening all around us for years.

It will be gradual.

The thing with collapses that we see in the media is that we are seeing the end results of events that have been slowly declining for years. Venezuela was one of the wealthiest countries in the world back until the mid-1980s, due to their rich oil reserves. Then oil prices collapsed and their fall began. It was actually several decades though before it was truly evident that the country was in trouble.