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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America's Kangaroo Justice: Welcome to The Post-Constitutional Era
Our corporate masters, unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they're igniting – and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Hedges v. Obama is a signpost on the road to dystopia.
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Emails Reveal Google's Close Relationship with NSA Spy Chief
The National Security Agency head and the Internet giant’s executives have coordinated through high-level policy discussions.
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Why Is the U.S. Military Indoctrinating Our K-12 Math and Science Kids?
The Department of Defense runs more than a dozen national programs and spends tens of millions of dollars each year to "penetrate schools," pushing a high-tech Army message to young students.
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Outrage As Occupy Protester Cecily McMillan Is Found Guilty, Court Condones Police Violence
The hyper-selective retelling of events in a New York City courtroom mirrors the State's narrative of Occupy Wall Street – and how one woman may serve seven years while the NYPD goes free.
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California Senate Committee Passes Bill to Pull the Plug on NSA Spying
Senate Bill 828, dubbed the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, represents a growing opposition to NSA spying on a state and local level, and across the political spectrum.
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Criminalizing Dissent: When Peaceful Protest Became A Crime
After the coordinated nationwide eradication of Occupy encampments, the government has used the courts to harass and neutralize Occupy activists, forcing them to accept felony charges with long probation terms.
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Why Is Blackwater Helping To Train Brazil’s World Cup Security?
More than 170,000 security personnel will be on hand at the summer soccer tournament, some of them trained by a private U.S. security firm with a dark history.
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Major Corporations Announce $60 Million Divestment from Private Prisons
Thanks to sustained pressure from ColorOfChange, this may be the first time that a series of corporations have confirmed divestment from private prisons.
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Victims of Police Entrapment, NATO 3 Sentenced to Multiple-Year Jail Terms
Three activists accused of plotting to firebomb high-profile targets during the 2012 NATO Summit were sentenced Friday.
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Former Google Programmers Say Enough Surveillance – It's Time to Build a New Internet
Unrestrained data collection by private companies and the government is threatening the very nature of how the Internet – and, likewise, the companies that populate it – was intended to run.
