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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Secretive Airspace: Private Companies Are Now At the Heart of U.S. Drone Warfare
America's overstretched military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to analyze top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders – a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Expensive Busts: Illinois Spent $2.4 Million Jailing Residents of Just One City Block
"I tell you what, I wish instead of spending so much money on [incarcerating people], they'd come fill some of these crater holes behind my house."
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Cincinnati Police Officer Indicted for Murder After Killing Unarmed Black Driver
Prosecutors said officer Ray Tensing “purposely killed” 43-year-old Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black man who was pulled over for a missing front license plate.
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White Officer Pepper-Sprays Crowd At Black Lives Matter Conference In Cleveland
The incident occurred Sunday during protests against the arrest of a 14-year-old.
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Documents Show Feds Regularly Monitor Black Lives Matter Protesters Nationwide
The reports confirm social media surveillance of the movement and related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York – including watching over vigils, parades and other benign gatherings.
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It’s Not Just the NSA – The IRS Is Reading Your Emails Too
Email content is easily accessible to many civil and law enforcement agencies as soon as it is at least 180 days old.
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Beyond Ag-Gag: One North Carolina Law Is Bringing the War on Whistleblowers to A New Level
No longer just targeting animal rights activists, the Property Protection Act outlaws exposing abuse at elder care facilities, day cares and charter schools – revealing the power of ALEC-backed legislation at the state level.
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Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State
No discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class – and until that happens, despite reforms to the criminal justice system, the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity.
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Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware
The controversial software from Hacking Team allows users to take remote control of suspects’ computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras.
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Computer Experts: U.S. and U.K. Demands for Encrypted Data Access "Unprincipled and Unworkable"
In a new report, international cryptographers and computer scientists say the proposals by American and British security agencies will open door to criminals and malicious nation states.
