Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Killings and Repression Spark Revolt in Brooklyn
The March 9 killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn has unleashed a torrent of outrage about police brutality and racism in New York City.
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"The Kissinger Cables": Wikileaks Releases New Trove of Secret U.S. Documents
The world's lead whistleblowing website has just published the "Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy," 1.7 million U.S. documents from 1973 to 1976 including many written by former State Secretary Henry Kissinger.
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Hearts, Minds and Dollars: Condolence Payments in the Drone Strike Age
One measure of accountability for the U.S. covert drone wars is acknowledging civilian casualties and compensating families for their losses, but recent history in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that isn’t always simple.
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In March, Worldwide Protests Gained Momentum
Global demonstrations in March turned out hundreds of thousands of protesters, raising oppositional voices against austerity measures, police violence, school closures and ecocidal legislation.
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Six Things You Need to Know About the Arkansas Oil Spill
The damage it's wrought, human and environmental, could determine the future of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Ohio is Illegally Jailing Debtors
Modern-day debtors' prisons push poor defendants further into destitution.
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Is Keystone XL Pipeline the "Stonewall" of the Climate Movement?
The narrow window of opportunity that physics provides us makes me doubt that a third party will offer a fast enough answer to come to terms with our changing planet.
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Revealed: How Homeland Security Spies on Peaceful Demonstrations and Activists
Government documents obtained through FOIA requests reveal that the Department of Homeland Security conducts daily monitoring of peaceful, lawful protests as a matter of policy.
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We're Not Broke: The Film
The new film tells the story of how U.S. corporations have been able to hide over a trillion dollars from Uncle Sam — and how seven fed-up Americans take their frustration to the streets, vowing to make corporations pay their share.
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Third Major Oil Spill in a Week: Shell Pipeline Breaks in Texas
Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week.
