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18 Sheriff's Deputies Charged With Inmate Abuse and Corruption at L.A. Central Jail
Four grand jury indictments and a criminal complaint allege unjustified beatings of jail inmates and visitors at downtown L.A. jail facilities, unjustified detentions and a conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation into misconduct at largest U.S. jail system.
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Why Is University of Pennsylvania Hosting Secret Meetings About Secret Surveillance?
Last month's conference here, entitled "On the Very Idea of Secret Laws," featured moderated discussions about secret courts, secret laws and America's rampaging surveillance apparatus—and was kept strangely, well, secret from the public.
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Police Violence Spurs Britain's Student Movement Against Privatization and Higher Fees
Last week's occupation of the University of London's vice chancellor's office by 100 students was evicted by security guards working alongside police.
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Is Afghan President Rejecting U.S. Security Pact Due to Mysterious Civilian Killings in Wardak Province?
Despite local protests, outrage from human rights organizations and the urging of the Afghan government, the U.S. has chosen not to cooperate with national investigations into civilian deaths in Wardak province that may amount to war crimes.
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Under Global Shadow of Big Brother, Journalism Must Light Up the Political Sky
In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. What governments want is fake journalism, deferring to official storylines and respectful of authority even when it is illegitimate.
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Guardian News Staff May Face Terrorism Charges Over Snowden Leaks
The Guardian editor has been summoned to parliament, accused of helping terrorists by publishing the Edward Snowden leaks.
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Snowden Revelations Prompt UN Investigation Into Surveillance
The UN's senior counterterrorism official says Snowden's revelations "are at the very apex of public interest concerns."
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How False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions Are Betraying U.S. Justice System
It's a largely unknown fact that police during interrogations are allowed to present false information to extract a confession — and that once the confession is made, even other evidence such as DNA often fails to overturn the conviction.
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Why Did a Texas Fracking Exec Threaten to Label Residents “Terrorists”?
The chief operating officer of Eagleridge, Inc., is operating straight out of the frack industry playbook, based on a Stratfor document leaked earlier this year which laid out the strategy to label activists as “radicals,” “idealists,” “realists” and “opportunists.”
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Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor
An exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Srdja Popovic, one of the leading architects of the overthrow of Slobodan Milodevic, has served as an intelligence gatherer for Strator and the U.S. government, informing on activists worldwide.
