Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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An Unconstitutional Gag Order Threatens to Further Silence Barrett Brown
On Wednesday, a judge will decide whether or not the U.S. government is allowed to prohibit investigative journalist Barrett L. Brown and his defense team from speaking to the press.
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Hedges: Last Chance to Stop the National Defense Authorization Act
We have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
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Hedges: The Death of Truth
The global assault on Wikileaks is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties — a hunt not for actual terrorists, but for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.
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Anonymous Hacker to Spend Year in Jail Without Trial
The federal trial against alleged computer hacker Barrett Brown, 31, has been delayed by six months, meaning he'll wait in prison one full year before being tried.