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Almost Four Environmental Defenders A Week Were Killed in 2017
197 people were killed last year for defending land, wildlife or natural resources, new Global Witness data reveals.
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Beyond Denial: Poland's New Holocaust Bill Provokes International Outrage
On Thursday, the Polish Senate agreed to pass new legislation that would impose heavy fines and up to 3 years in prison for anyone who openly associates the complicity of Polish citizens or the Polish state with Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
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Blackwater and the Corporate Mercenaries Who've Changed the Rules of War
The UN asserts that mercenarism is against international humanitarian law, but this hardly seems to matter. By exploiting legal loopholes along with some creative lawyering, the modern mercenary now operates with impunity.
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Far-Right Reichsbürger Movement Aims To Delegitimize the German State
The extremist “Citizens of the Reich” is a cluster of German and Austrian fringe movements that refuse to recognize German borders after 1937, when Adolf Hitler secured territories that Germany had lost in World War I.
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive and left-wing sites, have given the corporate state the power to destroy freedom of speech.
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Resurgence of Protests In Catalonia As Spain Continues to Hold Political Prisoners
You would think three months prison without trial for organizing peaceful protests is something that happens in an authoritarian state, but this reality now faces two Catalan men who were jailed in Spain for sedition last fall while calling for public
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What Eastern Europe's Anti-Immigration Movement Says About E.U. Frailty
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's sweeping accusations both against the E.U. and the waves of refugees seeking safety in his country may sound like ludicrous soundbites, but they betray an identity crisis that is affecting the entirety of Eastern Europe.
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22 States File Suit to "Stop the FFC's Illegal Rollback of Net Neutrality"
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is leading the effort to protect "an open internet—and the free exchange of ideas it allows," which he says "is critical to our democratic process."
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Trump 'Could Be Sending People to Their Deaths,' Advocates Warn, After 200,000 Salvadorans Told to Get Out
"Deporting hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents back to the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere is not just an affront to American values, but a near-homicidal act."
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Climate Change, Mass Migration and the Border Militarization to Come
"The arrest, incarceration, and expulsion of undocumented people in the United States is happening, even during massive (natural) disaster situations, at all times," says climate writer Todd Miller.
