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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Wisconsin's Widening — And Misreported — Police Crackdown on Dissent
Since July 24, the Wisconsin Capitol Police have arrested over 150 people and issued more than 300 citations — all for participating in the two-year tradition of singing at the Capitol known as the Solidarity Sing Along.
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An Unconstitutional Gag Order Threatens to Further Silence Barrett Brown
On Wednesday, a judge will decide whether or not the U.S. government is allowed to prohibit investigative journalist Barrett L. Brown and his defense team from speaking to the press.
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Clashes Break Out As Thousands of Teachers Protest in Mexico City
An estimated 10,000 teachers have been camped out in Zocalo square for two weeks as part of action against the president's plan for an overhaul to the educational system.
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Hedges: Last Chance to Stop the National Defense Authorization Act
We have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
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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.
