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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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NSA Leak Revives Ethical Questions on Private Security Contractors

The Edward Snowden affair exposes the role of using contractors in intelligent work.

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World Leaders Want More Answers on NSA Surveillance Program

Data protection chiefs and analysts in E.U., Pakistan, South Africa and Canada expressed concerns at the news of broad surveillance programs that spy on Americans.

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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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Stop Watching Us: New Petition Website Demands Congressional Investigation of NSA Surveillance

A coalition of 85 technology companies, organizations and privacy advocates launched a website Tuesday calling for a special congressional committee to investigate the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program.

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Protesters Stampede to Flee Crackdown in Turkey

Tuesday evening, police suddenly moved in on protestors in Taksim Square, the heart of the Istanbul protests, spraying tear gas and causing a stampede as clouds of tear gas wafted through the air and demonstrators buckled in pain.

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"Boundless Informant" Revealed: The NSA's Secret Tool to Track Global Surveillance Data

The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.

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Turkish police storm Taksim Square

Riot police fire tear gas and move past barricades to disperse demonstrators occupying heart of Istanbul.

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The FBI Raids Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed Steubenville Rape Case

Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old corporate cyber-security consultant, says his home was raided by the FBI after he publicized information about the Steubenville rape case.

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