Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Nearly 400 Arrested at Largest Youth-led Civil Disobedience Action in a Generation
If President Obama doesn't stop the pipeline with his pen, activists will stop it with their bodies.
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Why The Crisis In Ukraine Isn’t The Start Of Another Cold War
Russia can't use its military to control Ukraine - or, really, much of anything.
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How Covert Agents use the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
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Kimani's Story: An Interview with the Directors of “Defended in the Streets"
The new film tells the story of the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray by plainclothes police in Brooklyn – an event that sparked outrage and widespread protests against police brutality.
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Killing Black Children is an American Tradition
In the wake of the Jordan Davis verdict, a history lesson.
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Homeland Security Wants a Nationwide License Plate Tracking System
The tracking system would give the agency access to vast amounts of information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers.
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Snowden Docs Reveal U.S. and U.K. Covert Surveillance, Pressure On WikiLeaks and Supporters
One classified document from the U.S. intelligence community recounts how the Obama administration urged foreign allies to file criminal charges against Julian Assange over the WikiLeaks publication of the Afghanistan war logs.
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Ending the Chicago Tribune’s Propaganda War Against Public Dissent
The NATO 3’s ‘crime’ — assembling four primitive Molotov cocktails on the eve of a protest — was wholly initiated, incited and put into motion by two undercover cops.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
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Riding to Resist: L.A. Bicyclists Brave Death to Empower Communities
We have brought all ages of bicycle activists out of their homes and into the streets to form innovative, radical groups whose two-wheeled tools address far-reaching community needs
