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Quebec Groups, Politician Promote Chinese App That Collects Personal Data, Surveils Users

A city councillor in Quebec and two local community groups have been promoting a cellphone application that collects and transfers users’ private information to the Chinese authorities and requires users to comply with Chinese law. Qiaobao is an application developed by a Beijing-based technology company that operates as a subsidiary of the China News Service, which…


Swedish Man Found Guilty of Murder, Planning to Kill Politician

STOCKHOLM—A Swedish court on Tuesday found a man guilty of murdering a woman and of planning to kill a senior politician at a festival in July, and ordered that he be taken into psychiatric care. The 33-year-old Swede was arrested on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland moments after he had stabbed to death a…


Home Town Story (1951)

After failing to be reelected, politician Blake Washburn returns home and becomes editor of the local newspaper. When he notices the influence the paper has on the public, he uses it to appeal to potential voters in the next election. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature…


Mistrial Declared for Ex-Idaho Politician Charged With 1984 Murder of Colorado Girl

DENVER—Jurors deadlocked and a mistrial was declared on Thursday in the kidnapping-murder case against a two-time Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in the 1984 slaying of a 12-year-old Colorado girl whose remains were unearthed over three decades later. The 12-member jury found Steven Pankey, 70, guilty on one count of false reporting to authorities but failed…


Pakistan Police: 5 Suspected of Abducting Politician Killed

PAKISTAN—Pakistani counterterrorism police said Sunday they killed five people involved in the abduction for ransom and subsequent death of a nationalist political party leader. The raid took place overnight in the southwestern city of Pishin, according to the Baluchistan province Counter Terrorism Department. Malik Ubaidullah Kasi, leader of the secular Awami National Party, was abducted…


How a Tiny Communist Party Took Over the Politics of a Whole American State

Trevor Loudon outlines the influence that the pro-Beijing Communist Party USA has in Connecticut. Almost every prominent politician in the state has a working relationship with the Communist Party USA—yet Connecticut voters have virtually no knowledge of these relationships. Counterpunch is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook, Gab, and YouTube. Support Counterpunch: donorbox.org/counterpunch​ Follow…