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Watched While Driving: Five Important Questions About the Federal Vehicle Surveillance Program
The DEA is collecting hundreds of millions of records about cars traveling on U.S. roads – but who approved the program, where does the data go, and are there limitations on its use? No one seems to know.
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The Disappeared: Chicago Police Detain Americans At Abuse-Laden "Black Site"
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, essentially disappearing Americans and locking them in the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
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Texas Judge Who Blocked Obama Immigration Action Had Criticized "Criminal Conspiracy" Policy
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen once accused the president's administration of participating in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the U.S. by helping reunite them with parents who live here illegally.
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Pentagon Makes No Secret of Wanting to Monitor Social Change Activism
The U.S. military is increasingly concerned about the risks to social, political and economic stability from resource stress and climate change – and whether they might lead governments to collapse.
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Monitors to Phones to Meals: These 5 Corporations Are Quietly Making Billions Off Incarceration
Companies off the popular radar are benefiting from epidemic prison and jail building – some may even be even operating in your neighborhood.
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Anti-Tar Sands Activists Are Getting FBI Visits
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted, at home and through calls and texts, by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to the oil sands.
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Lynching In America: New Report Documents Nearly 4,000 Killings In Jim Crow South
Researchers at the Alabama-based Equal Jusitice Initiative reviewed historical archives, court records and African-American newspapers, and interviewed historians, lynching survivors and victims' descendants to calculate the figures.
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Net Neutrality Activists Bodyslammed, Dragged from Republican FCC Press Conference
For reminding Republicans that 85% of their party supports net neutrality, activists got bodyslammed.
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Totalitarian Democracy Now
The 1% has no intention of giving up its wealth or its power, so the challenge facing us is well worth accepting.
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"A Line in the Sand" in Fight to Release Thousands of Photos of Prisoner Abuse
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can’t release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
