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Drone News Blackout Continues As Mainstream Media Ignore Whistleblowers
In the latest example of journalistic negligence, The New York Times, Washington Post and other large news organizations have continued their apparent policy of no-bad-news-reporting-about-drones.
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Justice Department to Open Ferguson-Style Inquiry Into Chicago PD
U.S. attorneys will investigate whether the police department systemically engaged in constitutional violations of policing.
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Privacy Advocates In Uproar Over UK Cyber Surveillance Bill
Following terror attacks on Paris last month, the spectre of a Draft Investigatory Powers Bill now looms over Britain as lawmakers debate instituting the most invasive cyber-surveillance regime to date.
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Chicago Police Chief Fired After Laquan McDonald Shooting Revelations
“Police officers are only effective if they are trusted by all Chicagoans."
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Delusional and Dangerous: Retired Admiral and JSOC Commander Speaks Out
It’s important to contest William McRaven’s ahistorical analysis, which offers a deluded account of the past and prescribes a dangerous course for the future of U.S. foreign policy.
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To Mark Thanksgiving, Activists Launch Guantánamo Protest Along Camp's Perimeter
Fourteen peace activists from across the U.S. began a protest vigil and fast outside the U.S. military detention camp on Wednesday to draw attention to ongoing human rights abuses at the prison.
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Chicago Police Officer Who Shot Black Teen 16 Times Charged with Murder
Veteran officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder the day before a judge’s deadline for the release of a video showing the graphic killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
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Obama's Drone War is a "Recruitment Tool" for ISIS, Say U.S. Air Force Whistleblowers
Four former Air Force service members who operated military drones have written an open letter to President Obama warning that the program of targeted killings has become a "driving force" for ISIS and other terrorist groups.
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The Counted: U.S. Police Have Killed 1,000 People In 2015
A man fatally shot in Oakland over the weekend was also the 183rd death by police recorded this year in California – by far the greatest total of any state.
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In Aftermath of Paris Carnage, Suspects Are Still On the Run
As Paris mourned the attacks' 132 victims at a special mass at Notre Dame Cathedral, French police identified one of the gunmen involved in the assault.
