Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part II
Groups engaged in activism for social change are susceptible to being ranked higher on the radicalism threat-scale by the Pentagon's Minerva research program.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part I
Public university-paid social scientists identify "threats" from mass movements and Muslim NGOs on behalf of U.S. military intelligence.
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Edward Snowden, The Most Wanted Man in the World
"I’m an engineer, not a politician. I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”
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Decision to Frack Britain's Parks Takes Industry Influence To New Extremes
Despite UK minsters asserting the alleged economic benefits of fracking, many in Britain question the government’s new plan that puts human health, safety and the country's natural beauty at stake.
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Rebel Generation: Millennials In the Era Of Distrust and Discontent
From 9/11 on, millennials saw firsthand the devastation wrought by the Bush administration’s dishonesty.
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Fire These Liars: Heads of CIA and NSA Have Criminally Misled Public
Last week it became clear that the head of the CIA, John Brennan lied when he said: “As far as the allegations of CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn’t do that.
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Koch Brothers’ Politics Reflect Their Father’s Rabid Anti-Communism
The FBI collected over 100 pages of documents on Fred Koch after he published a red scare manifesto that accused U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself of being a communist.
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Thank You for Your Service: How One Company Sues Soldiers Worldwide
With stores near military bases across the country, the retailer USA Discounters offers easy credit to service members. But when those loans go bad, the company uses the local courts near its Virginia headquarters to file suits by the thousands.
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The Coming Calamity, The Coming Resistance – Part I
From the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to the Trade In Services Agreement, massive trade deals are being advanced in coordination with a militarized police state.
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Occupy Hit Job: Why Is The New York Times Smearing Cecily McMillan?
When a journalist in a news article refers to a woman as “strident,” you know what you’re reading is a hit piece – and that's what the New York Times produced about Occupy Wall Street activist McMillan.