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Revealed: How Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists
Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young
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Alarm over voter purges as 17 million Americans removed from rolls in two years
US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.
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Hong Kong Police Fire Rubber Bullets As Protests Turn Violent
A major anti-government march in Hong Kong descended into chaos late on Sunday, as police fired teargas on protesters and unidentified masked men attacked commuters returning from the demonstration.
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Return of the Poll Tax
Florida's anti-democratic poll tax will cost the state hundreds of thousands of voters — and hundreds of millions of dollars.
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'Protesters as terrorists': growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime
Conservative lawmakers have put forward laws criminalizing protests that disrupt the construction and operation of pipelines in at least 18 states since 2017.
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San Francisco Says No to Facial Recognition Software
The city is the first in the nation to ban the police and other municipal departments from using the technology.
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They’re Haunted by ‘Ghost Warrants’ Years After Their Arrests
Outdated or inaccurate charges often linger on people’s records and lead to devastating new stints in jail.
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Justice Deferred: The Espionage Act and Reality Winner's Imprisonment
“I’ve never been an advocate-activist type of person, but this really permeated me," said Wendy Meer Collins, an advocate on behalf of the imprisoned whistleblower Reality Winner. "It just seemed so wrong.”
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Fury As Bolsonaro Orders Brazil Army to Mark 55th Anniversary of Military Coup
Victims of Brazil’s dictatorship are outraged after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ordered the country’s armed forces to commemorate the anniversary of a 1964 coup which unleashed 21 years of military rule.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying and Bribing To Secure Market Dominance
The amount that Amazon has spent purchasing political influence has recently skyrocketed – quadrupling from the $3 million it spent on lobbying in 2013 to $14.4 million last year.