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This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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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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America's Disappeared: The Poor and the Prison System
When you are poor you can instantly disappear into the subterranean rabbit holes of our vast jail and prison complex.
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The Business of Mass Incarceration
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jails and prisons, however, they each can generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
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Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
The goal of the corporate state is to criminalize democratic, popular dissent before there is another popular eruption.
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial.
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The New State Agitprop Film About Wikileaks
The film does a grave disservice to whistleblowers Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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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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The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
The near total collapse of our judicial system, wrecked in the name of national security and “the war on terror,” is encapsulated in the saga of this courageous attorney.
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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like
The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
Posted 2 weeks 6 days ago
The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
