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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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Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind Revelations of NSA Surveillance

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows. Snowden joins the ranks of Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning.

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Obama's Verizon Phone Records Collection Carries on Bush's Work

Candidate Obama criticized policies allowing phone calls to be monitored; in office, he has continued and even extended them.

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The NSA, Surveillance and the Chronic State of Terror

Why would a court order, or the government that created it, or the major telecommunication company that enforced it, have a problem discussing details of the agreement if their intentions were as sacred as they claimed?

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The NSA's Phone Surveillance is Illegal

The Obama administration's surveillance of tens of millions of Verizon phone calls is questionable at best and illegal at worst, a top privacy-rights advoca

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NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily

A top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data demonstrates the scale of domestic surveillance under Obama.

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Former Drone Operator Says He's Haunted by His Part in More Than 1,600 Deaths

A former Air Force drone operator says he participated in missions that killed more than 1,600 people.

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75% of Journalists Turned Away From Covering Manning Trial

The courtroom and media center for the Bradley Manning trial were the sites of a virtual state of siege this week, as the Army press corps denied credentials to the media that would have vastly increased coverage.

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Bradley Manning Is Guilty of “Aiding the Enemy” — If the Enemy Is Democracy

When the deceptive operation of the warfare state can’t stand the light of day, truth-tellers are a constant hazard. And culpability must stay turned on its head.

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