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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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.
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FBI Used No-Fly List to Bully Muslims Into Becoming Informers
Naveed Shinwari hasn’t seen his wife in 26 months. He suspects it’s because he refused to become an informant for the FBI.
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Inmates Strike in Alabama – Declare Prison Is “Running a Slave Empire”
Inmates will refuse work, calling for education, rehabilitation and an end to overcrowding, life sentences without parole – and “the free labor system.”
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Hedges: Preparing for Violence and the Coming American Fascism
The rage and nihilism that come from the frustrations of American life are expressed through violence.
