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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Ending the Chicago Tribune’s Propaganda War Against Public Dissent
The NATO 3’s ‘crime’ — assembling four primitive Molotov cocktails on the eve of a protest — was wholly initiated, incited and put into motion by two undercover cops.
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If the CIA Kills a U.S. Citizen, Amazon Becomes Partner in Assassination
Amazon signed a $600 million cloud-computing deal with the CIA making it responsible for keeping state secrets, aggregating data and helping with drone strikes.
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Confronting the Specter of Corporate and Police Spying
Corporations would like activists and others to remain in the dark about the extent to which they are keeping tabs on their opponents and critics, but there are cracks in the wall.
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Justice Department Withholds FISA Court Orders on NSA's Bulk Collection of Data
The decision to keep some of the records secret, in the thick of Edward Snowden’s revelations, has raised suspicions within the ACLU that the government continues to hide bulk surveillance activities from the U.S. public.
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Courage Is Contageous: Renowned Whistleblowers Address the Post-Snowden World
The unprecedented persecution of truth-tellers, initiated by the Bush administration and severely accelerated by Obama, has been mostly ignored while record numbers are charged with serious felonies for letting their fellow citizens know what's going on.
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Report: Massive Data-Sharing Among U.S. Law Agencies Is Wasteful, "Organized Chaos"
A report released Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU law school found inconsistent rules, inadequate oversight, wastefulness and insufficient regard for civil liberties nationwide among the FBI, DHS and local police departments.
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Under Global Shadow of Big Brother, Journalism Must Light Up the Political Sky
In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. What governments want is fake journalism, deferring to official storylines and respectful of authority even when it is illegitimate.
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Op-Doc: Why Care About the NSA?
Edward Snowden has ignited a debate, and for that I am grateful. But now that he’s done his part, it’s time for all Americans to decide how to respond to his revelations. That is to say, it is no longer his story. It is ours.
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Revealed: U.S. and U.K. Struck Secret Deal Allowing NSA to "Unmask" Britons' Personal Data
In another Snowden revelation, a 2007 deal allowed the NSA to store previously restricted material in which U.K. citizens not suspected of wrongdoing were caught up in the surveillance dragnet.
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Exposed: Private Firms Are Selling Mass Surveillance Systems Around World
Corporations sell spying tools at private trade fairs to developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with "off the shelf" equipment to allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to new documents.
