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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police

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At Least 70 Countries Have Engaged in Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds

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An office that Facebook set up in Dublin to monitor misuse of the platform. Oxford researchers said the company’s efforts were not enough to curb disinformation campaigns. Credit: Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times
Prison Recidivism: Causes and Possible Treatments

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Revealed: How Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists

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Monsanto ‘fusion center’ officials wrote lengthy reports about singer Neil Young’s anti-Monsanto advocacy. Photograph: Dan Steinberg/REX/Shutterstock
Alarm over voter purges as 17 million Americans removed from rolls in two years

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The disproportionate purging of voters has resulted in an estimated 1.1 million fewer voters between 2016 and 2018, the Brennan Center said. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
Hong Kong Police Fire Rubber Bullets As Protests Turn Violent

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Return of the Poll Tax

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Filming Holds Officers Accountable – Like In Eric Garner's Death by Excessive NYPD Force

Once again, a person's revolutionary act of filming with a cellphone has exposed crimes perpetrated by the New York police.

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Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers

Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database, more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.”

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The Fourth Branch: The Rise to Power of the National Security State

The 17 major intelligence outfits in the U.S. have been growing, some at prodigious rates, as they outsource their operations to private contractors in staggering numbers.

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Unpaid Taxes Surprisingly Frequent Among Those with U.S. Security Clearances

One would expect the security clearance population to be more law abiding on average than the general public.

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Military Recruiters Enjoy Unprecedented Access To Students

In the absence of public scrutiny, recruiters have been using a variety of means to circumvent existing school recruiting policies.

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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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The Coming Calamity, the Coming Resistance - Part II

We can further see that there is a war on the underclass in the form of police militarization, as the Pentagon actively prepares for civil unrest and a breakdown of society.

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How Local Police Are Spying On Americans Without Warrants

Stingrays and other cell surveillance tools have been used in the U.S. for years without the knowledge of the public or even defense attorneys and judges.

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