The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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CIA, Amazon, Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: An Executive Editor Responds
The CIA’s multi-year contract with Amazon is a small fraction of company revenues that have been estimated at roughly $75 b in 2013.
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Exclusive: Creator of Gezi Park Protest's Animated Film "Tornistan/Backward Run" Speaks Out
"People expected an apology from the government, but instead of an apology they got even more violence. Then everything changed. People formed a wall of flesh in 24 hours. Millions of people were fighting against the police unarmed."
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Why Are Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles Active in Texas?
In an absurdly dangerous militarization of America's police departments, our sprawling DHS and Pentagon are spreading war equipment, war techniques and a war mentality to our supposed community peacekeepers and crime solvers.
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Why Widely Unregulated Drone Use Is Soaring in Latin America
Manufacturers are targeting markets in Latin America for the martial use of drones in law enforcement and military operations, provoking protests from civil liberties and human rights groups.
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NSA Fails to Deny Spying on Congress As FISA Court Reauthorizes Phone Metadata Seizure
In its statement, which comes as the NSA gears up for a make-or-break legislative battle over the scope of its surveillance powers, the agency pointed to “privacy protections” which it says it keeps on all Americans' phone records.
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26,000 Sign Petition Demanding Washington Post Disclose Bezos-Amazon’s CIA Ties
The newspaper is facing a tsunami of criticism and calls for full disclosure after its new owner, Amazon C.E.O. and Bilderberg Group member Jeff Bezos, secured a $600 million contract with the CIA for “cloud” services.
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Revealed: 2012 Graduates Have Highest-Ever Student Debt
College graduates who borrowed for bachelor’s degrees granted in 2012 have an average student loan debt of $29,400, the highest average student loan debt ever on record. Overall, 70% of college seniors graduated with debt in 2012.
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Edward Snowden Declares "Mission Accomplished," Reflects on NSA Revelations
“I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself."
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We'd Ground Our Fleet
But after a dozen or more deaths at a Yemeni wedding, don't expect anything to change.
