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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Honoring Slain Alex Nieto, San Francisco Marches In Solidarity with Ferguson
Five months after the police killing of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, protesters are returning to the streets Friday to demand justice – from San Francisco to Ferguson, Missouri.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part IV
New but little-known Pentagon directives authorize the use of armed drones against American citizens in the homeland in the context of domestic emergencies.
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Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part III
Arizona State University’s Defense Department-sponsored data-mining algorithms would enhance CIA "signature" drone strike targeting.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part II
Groups engaged in activism for social change are susceptible to being ranked higher on the radicalism threat-scale by the Pentagon's Minerva research program.
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Ferguson’s Citizen Journalists Reveal the Value of Filming the Police
Until police stop treating communities as war zones and people as enemy combatants, keep your phone handy.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part I
Public university-paid social scientists identify "threats" from mass movements and Muslim NGOs on behalf of U.S. military intelligence.
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Fearing Protests At Stock Exchange, London Rewrites Rules On Paternoster Square
The increased protection for the square, which contains banks and one of the country's most important financial buildings, adds to the crackdown on dissent in Britain.
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The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
America now has a domestic police force that looks, thinks and acts more like an invading and occupying military than a community-based force to protect the public.
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Ferguson Is What Happens When White Suburban Cops Get Weapons Of War
Michael Brown’s shooting was one thing. The protests are another. But military might does not belong on Main Street.
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Edward Snowden, The Most Wanted Man in the World
"I’m an engineer, not a politician. I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”
