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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Why Does Britain Want to Deport One-Time Protester Trenton Oldfield?
The 37-year-old was imprisoned for interrupting a boat race last year, which highlighted inequalities and Britain's rigid class system. Now, the government wants him out of the country. Their rationale: he may “threaten national security.”
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Revealed: U.S. and U.K. Struck Secret Deal Allowing NSA to "Unmask" Britons' Personal Data
In another Snowden revelation, a 2007 deal allowed the NSA to store previously restricted material in which U.K. citizens not suspected of wrongdoing were caught up in the surveillance dragnet.
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Exclusive: Teen's Mysterious Killing At Mexican Border Exposes Unaccountable, Violent U.S. Policy
The fatal cross-border shooting by U.S. agents of an unarmed 16-year-old boy highlights a spate of killings of Mexicans who posed no security threat and who were standing on their own country's soil — raising serious questions about U.S. border violence.
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After 30 Years of Silence, the Original NSA Whistleblower Looks Back
Meet Perry Fellwock, the NSA's first whistleblower.
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Green Activists Navigate Life In the Post-Privacy Era
The most visible manifestation of surveillance in the environmental movement has been a rash of undercover agents who blurred the lines between police work and entrapment -- and now every experienced green group has a policy for dealing with them.
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Exposed: Private Firms Are Selling Mass Surveillance Systems Around World
Corporations sell spying tools at private trade fairs to developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with "off the shelf" equipment to allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to new documents.
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Banning Surveillance: What States and Localities Can Do About Drones
Cities from Minnesota and Virginia to Illinois and Massachusetts have passed legislation outlawing the use of aerial drones in their region. Now it's time for other cities, towns and counties to pass similar resolutions.
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David Miranda Is Nobody’s Errand Boy
When Glenn Greenwald’s 28-year-old Brazilian partner was detained in London this summer while transporting documents related to the bombshell Edward Snowden story, many assumed he was unfairly roped into a situation he didn’t understand. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Arctic 30 Protester: "My Little Girl Will Have Forgotten Who I Am In Seven Years"
A defiant letter and a series of poignant drawings from Britain's Phil Ball, a 42-year-old cameraman from Oxford now sitting in a jail cell in Murmansk, highlight the plight of the Arctic 30 in their eighth week of imprisonment in Russia.
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Privacy Activists Take UK Government to Court As Europe's Leaders Stumble
The attitude of Europe’s leaders toward data privacy marks a victory for U.S. companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple – and a stunning defeat for the many civil rights groups demanding E.U. sanctions for violations of its citizens' privacy.
