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Police State
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The Real Cyber Bullies: How Big Business Is Helping Expand NSA Surveillance
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which President Obama could sign this month, represents a major new privacy threat to individuals as it enables corporations to feed massive amounts of communications to businesses and state.
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Spanish Congress Approves Anti-Democratic Laws Curbing Protests, Press, Internet and Speech
A draconian new gag law will punish Spanish activists with severe fines for organizing in public space, sending tweets, photographing the police, stopping foreclosure evictions, gathering in front of Congress, and many other democratic acts.
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How the "Flood Wall Street" Trial Changed the Game Of Policing
By ordering protesters to leave the entire Wall Street area, police violated protesters’ First Amendment right to carry their message directly to its intended recipients: the Wall Street bankers who bankroll climate change, a judge ruled.
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If We Want Less Racism, We Need More Economic Justice
The Justice Department report on Ferguson demonstrates how economic hardship and racial tension feed off each other.
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Documents Reveal Canada’s Secret Hacking Tactics
Canada has adopted aggressive tactics to attack, sabotage and infiltrate targeted computer systems.
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The New American Order
Welcome to 1% Elections, the privatization of the State, a fourth branch of government, and the demobilization of "We the People."
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"Kidnapped" Victims of Chicago Police File Federal Civil Rights Suit
Three men have accused police of a "common plan to falsely arrest, illegally detain, and physically abuse" them – and are suing the city of Chicago over their black site-style detention at Homan Square.
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Chaos In the Mediterranean: How Humanitarian Hawks and Mainstream Media Misled the World On Libya
As high-level discussions ensue about whether, and how, to embark on an expanded mission to battle ISIS, the cliche rings truer than ever that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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U.S. Sets New Record For Denying Federal Files Under Freedom of Information Act
The Obama administration redacted and denied government files in record numbers for the second consecutive year.
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ICE Raid Apprehends Hundreds of Immigrants With Misdemeanors
The raid aimed to round up “the worst of the worst criminals.” But almost half of those people taken in the operation have never been convicted of a felony.
