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Our Data, Our Property: We Need New Laws To Prevent Facebook Abuse
If tech companies like Facebook won’t respect on any ethical or moral level that our data is our property, then laws must be written to codify those rights.
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The Coming Iran Crisis and the Urgency for a Progressive Foreign Policy Alternative
A progressive foreign policy would reject the use of the American military as a global police force, support social democracy internationally instead of unfettered global capitalism, and push strongly for demilitarization.
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The DHS Database of Journalists Will End Independent News Media as We Know It
The move by DHS is widely expected to have a “chilling effect” on the number of journalists applying for visas to travel overseas and report on what they see there.
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These States Want to Make Planning A Pipeline Protest A Crime
A slew of bills proposed in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota – all states with controversial pipeline projects currently under consideration – take the criminalization of protest one step further.
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Homeland Security Wants to Monitor Journalists. Time to Sound the Alarm.
DHS intends to list and track hundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and "influencers" in traditional and new media alike, setting a frighteningly authoritarian precedent.
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Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?
Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.
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Louisiana and Minnesota Introduce Anti-Protest Bills Amid Fights Over Bayou Bridge and Enbridge Pipelines
The Louisiana House of Representatives has introduced new legislation aimed at criminalizing the activities of groups protesting the extraction, burning, and transport of oil and gas.
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Threat of Rising Violence In Britain's Streets After Cuts Reduce Police Forces
The steep Tory-led austerity cuts have fostered a national police force that simply doesn't have the budget or resources to tackle rising crime – in particular the hate crimes that exploded after Brexit.
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The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed
Details about the meetings of the spy agency coalition SIGINT Seniors are disclosed in a batch of classified documents from the NSA’s internal newsletter, provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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170 Arrested in Canada as Anti-Pipeline Protests Continue Against Kinder Morgan Project
More than 170 people were arrested from March 17 to 24 on Burnaby Mountain in Canada taking bold action to stop the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.