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Terror vs. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe in Two Simple Steps
Before I am bullied into accepting intrusive government surveillance that is open to politicized abuse, here are two proposals: stop creating new terrorists, and change U.S. policy toward the Arab and Muslim world.
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Snowden Saw What I Saw: Surveillance Criminally Subverting the Constitution
Famed whistleblower Thomas Drake explains how, to the NSA, we're all potentially guilty.
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Congress Approves Large-Scale Cuts to Food Stamps Program
The Senate voted to pass a $500 billion farm bill that increases subsidies for bio-ag giants like Monsanto while slashing billions from the program which feeds the hungry.
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From Greenwald to Assange: Prosecuting Our Watchdogs of Democracy
As the mainstream media has a field day eviscerating Obama’s secret NSA spying program, a separate clandestine debate is beginning to trickle into public discourse: how to prosecute journalists who publish big leaks.
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What the Progressive Caucus Said - and Failed to Say - About Edward Snowden and the NSA
Leaders and members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress say things that appeal to their constituencies back home — without throwing down the gauntlet and battling an administration that has made clear its contempt for essential civil liberties.
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Occupy Gezi Through the Eyes of an Occupy Wall Street Organizer
"There was the beautiful solidarity and unity I felt in Zuccotti Park, but also the righteous anger and intensity fueled by police violence that was evident in Tahrir Square," said Justin Wedes, who attended the Istanbul protests.
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Appeals Court Rules Farmers Cannot Sue Monsanto — If Monsanto Cannot Sue Them
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that organic and non-GMO farmers and seed company plaintiffs cannot bring a lawsuit against Monsanto, because the biotech giant has committed to not suing them.
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Immigration Enforcement or Folly: Are We Deporting the Worst of the Worst?
“Prosecutorial discretion” is an immigration enforcement reform designed to target the criminal elements within undocumented communities. But is it actually working like that?
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial.
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Our Historic Challenge: Supporting the Moral Actions of Edward Snowden
In Washington, where the state of war and the surveillance state are one and the same, top officials have begun to call for Edward Snowden’s head.
