The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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BREAKING: Albany, N.Y., Introduces Strong Resolution Against NDAA
The City of Albany may legislate that the National Defense Authorization Act violates multiple provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
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Hedges: Last Chance to Stop the National Defense Authorization Act
We have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
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Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
The goal of the corporate state is to criminalize democratic, popular dissent before there is another popular eruption.
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The Story Behind the "NATO 3" Domestic Terrorism Arrests
Accused of domestic terrorism during the NATO summit, Brian Church, Brent Betterly and Jared Chase were victims of police entrapment and the use of "Red Squad" tactics by the Chicago police.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama
Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.
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Jury Finds Occupy Wall Street Protester Not Guilty After Video Contradicts Police Testimony
The first jury trial stemming from an Occupy Wall Street protest resulted in an acquittal, thanks in part to video evidence.
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The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State
If the corporate state is handed the tools under the National Defense Authorization Act to use deadly force and military power to criminalize dissent, then our decline will be one of repression, blood and suffering.
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Government Uses the Same Argument to Justify the Targeted Killing of Americans and Indefinite Detention
On Tuesday, Michael Isikoff of NBC News published a 16-page white paper that outlines the government's secret justification for the extrajudicial killing of an American believed to be affiliated with a terrorist organization.
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Letter to the Director: "Zero Dark Thirty" is an Apology for Torture
By peddling the lie that CIA detentions led to Bin Laden's killing, you have become a Leni Riefenstahl-like propagandist of torture.