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Corporations Are Not People. Period.
80% of the American public believes corporations should not have the same rights as people. Yet our community is one of thousands that has been slapped down in the name of “corporate personhood.”
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Twitter Has Quietly Learned To Censor And Ban Its Users When Governments Ask
Twitter has a reputation as an open platform for expressing one's opinions. Last week, it agreed to censor a pro-Ukrainian Twitter feed in Russia. It also blocked a "blasphemous" account in Pakistan. It's not the first time Twitter has censored politically sensitive accounts. Now, it seems, Twitter's reputation as a platform for free speech is at risk.
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The VA Scandal Is Just the Latest Bait and Switch By Big Corporate Government
An anti-government narrative, perpetuated by the deceitful role-playing of Democrats and Republicans, creates the conditions that make a corporate heist of public resources possible.
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Hacker-Informant "Sabu" Betrayed Anonymous – And Now Freed After "Extraordinary" FBI Cooperation
Anonymous condemned the court's decision, saying the FBI uses captured informants to "pacify online dissent and snuff out journalistic investigations into the U.S. government’s misconduct.”
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What the Left Can Learn From the Far Right's Political Gains In Europe
The extreme right has worked hard to make themselves more palatable – while demonstrating that the old formula of scapegoating the already marginalized continues to be a winner.
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What 60 Years of Political Gerrymandering Looks Like
Redistricting is one of the biggest threats to our democracy.
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Why Is Michigan Trying to Derail Detroit's Urban Farming Movement?
New rules imposed on residential farms are threatening the state's agricultural renaissance – especially at its heart, in the bankrupt city of Detroit.
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How Activists Put Protection of the Internet Back on the National Agenda
Over 3.4 million Internet users took action against the FCC’s proposed rules in recent weeks – grassroots pressure that forced tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon to get off the sidelines.
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100 Years On, Why Is Great Britain Trying to Rewrite the Legacy of World War I?
As Britain's Education Secretary remakes the school curriculum to paint English military history in a more favorable light, questions are rising as to the accuracy – or propaganda – that the U.K. government is promoting.
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Tim Geithner and the Wall Street Bailout Hoax
Wall Street banks are now bigger and riskier than ever, no executives were prosecuted for their crimes, and the bailouts did nothing for tens of millions of Americans – and you call that a success?
