The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Hundreds Protest After Cops Kill Black Teen in St. Louis Suburb
The fatal shooting of a black teenager by police ignited protests that lasted several hours.
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Filming Holds Officers Accountable – Like In Eric Garner's Death by Excessive NYPD Force
Once again, a person's revolutionary act of filming with a cellphone has exposed crimes perpetrated by the New York police.
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Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database, more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.”
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The Fourth Branch: The Rise to Power of the National Security State
The 17 major intelligence outfits in the U.S. have been growing, some at prodigious rates, as they outsource their operations to private contractors in staggering numbers.
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Unpaid Taxes Surprisingly Frequent Among Those with U.S. Security Clearances
One would expect the security clearance population to be more law abiding on average than the general public.
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Military Recruiters Enjoy Unprecedented Access To Students
In the absence of public scrutiny, recruiters have been using a variety of means to circumvent existing school recruiting policies.
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Fire These Liars: Heads of CIA and NSA Have Criminally Misled Public
Last week it became clear that the head of the CIA, John Brennan lied when he said: “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn’t do that.
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The Coming Calamity, the Coming Resistance - Part II
We can further see that there is a war on the underclass in the form of police militarization, as the Pentagon actively prepares for civil unrest and a breakdown of society.
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How Local Police Are Spying On Americans Without Warrants
Stingrays and other cell surveillance tools have been used in the U.S. for years without the knowledge of the public or even defense attorneys and judges.
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Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
