Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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In Week of Major Supreme Court Rulings, Remember: Most of Our Justices Are Millionaires
At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt.
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At the top of our Lungs: The People’s Filibuster of the Texas Senate
The spoken word, including yelling, is one of the most democratic tools in a citizen’s arsenal.
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Voting Rights Act, Section 4, Struck Down By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act Tuesday, altering the landmark civil rights law that designates federal oversight of voting rights in Southern states.
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State Attorney Generals Vow Immediate Voter ID Implementation
Attorneys general in states previously covered by the Voting Rights Act have wasted no time in moving forward with photo voter ID laws, laws that cut early voting and other restrictive measures.
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Don’t Plug the Citizen Leak: Let Democracy Flow
Big Media is colluding with U.S. Senators to craft legislation that protects less than 1% of the populace and further ensures Obama’s ability to “plug” citizen leaks.
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America's Defining Choice: A Free or An Authoritian Future
Today's whistleblowers are fighting the same scourge that the Founders and every genuine patriot has fought against, only today, the authoritarianism that we're confronting isn't a foreign enemy, but one from within.
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How Women and Mobile Media Are Raising Citizens' Voices In India
CGNET is a voice portal that citizens call to record a news story, and it's helping women especially get the word out about issues in remote parts of India that have long been ignored.
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Terror vs. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe in Two Simple Steps
Before I am bullied into accepting intrusive government surveillance that is open to politicized abuse, here are two proposals: stop creating new terrorists, and change U.S. policy toward the Arab and Muslim world.
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Snowden Saw What I Saw: Surveillance Criminally Subverting the Constitution
Famed whistleblower Thomas Drake explains how, to the NSA, we're all potentially guilty.
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Landmark Law Moves Nevada From Coal to Renewables
A coal-fired power plant might be closing, and a nightmare ends.
