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Police State
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EXPOSED: Snowden Leaks $52B "Black Budget" Summary Detailing U.S. Spying Efforts
The 178-page budget summary for the National Intelligence Program describes the successes, failures and objectives of 16 U.S. spy agencies, mapping a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny.
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Investigation: The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities
After 9/11, the NYPD built in effect its own CIA — and its Demographics Unit delved deeper into the lives of citizens than did the NSA.
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Exposed: NYPD Secretly Labels Mosques As Terror Groups and Spies on Them
Confidential police documents uncovered by the AP show at least a dozen terrorism investigations into mosques since 9/11, with the NYPD using informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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Farmers' Strike Paralyzes Colombia
Colombian farmworkers are marching to demand government subsidies and greater access to land.
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Revealed: Spying Scandal Engulfs Other U.S. Agencies
Former prosecutor Patrick Nightingale says he and his colleagues may have been unwitting pawns in the federal government’s effort to deceive defendants and the court system, thereby violating citizens’ constitutional rights.
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Der Spiegel: NSA Hacked UN Videocalls As Part of Surveillance Program
The extent of U.S. covert surveillance at the UN was further detailed Sunday in a report by Germany's leading weekly, which claimed agents hacked into video conferencing at New York headquarters.
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Snowden: U.K. Government Is Now Leaking Documents About Itself
Edward Snowden said he is not the source of an Independent article about Britain's secret Internet-monitoring station.
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Spying on "Terrorists Abroad," Suppressing Dissent at Home: When We Become the Hunted
If you're wondering why the ongoing revelations about the development and use of a massive public and private surveillance complex should be of concern to you, read this interview.
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Global Unrest Defines a Fearless Summer of Protest
The summer of 2013 has seen some of the largest, most vocal mass protests around the world since 2011, as people people exercised power through occupations, strikes and blockades from Frankfurt to Istanbul, and Rio to Sanford, Florida.
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Bradley Manning to Request Pardon from Obama Over 35-Year Jail Sentence
The sentence was more severe than many observers expected, and is much longer than any punishment given to previous U.S. government officials who have leaked information to the media.
