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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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State Attorney Generals Vow Immediate Voter ID Implementation
Attorneys general in states previously covered by the Voting Rights Act have wasted no time in moving forward with photo voter ID laws, laws that cut early voting and other restrictive measures.
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Global Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties
Dynastic power, like class power, does not function as a conspiracy but rather as a network of institutions, corporations, banks, think tanks and foundations with indirect political influence.
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Don’t Plug the Citizen Leak: Let Democracy Flow
Big Media is colluding with U.S. Senators to craft legislation that protects less than 1% of the populace and further ensures Obama’s ability to “plug” citizen leaks.
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Protesting From Afar, Turks in Berlin Stand With Gezi Occupiers
To show solidarity in the weeks since protesters flooded Gezi Park in Istanbul, Berlin's Turkish population has been marching, demonstrating and sitting-in to protest a government they feel is aiming to sever democratic rights in their homeland.
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Occupy Movements Around the World: How Is Brazil's Different?
Spain's Indignados. Egypt's Tahrir Square. Occupy Wall Street. Occupy Gezi, and now Brazil. These local moments of a global Occupy movement represent a new stage in the history of protest.
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Why the Spying Scandal Is a Serious Racial Justice Issue
People of color are disproportionately caught up in the government’s dragnet.
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Tar Sands Protesters Shut Down Keystone XL in Oklahoma as #FearlessSummer Begins
Eight protesters blocked construction of a pump station for TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline on Seminole lands by locking themselves to equipment.
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America's Defining Choice: A Free or An Authoritian Future
Today's whistleblowers are fighting the same scourge that the Founders and every genuine patriot has fought against, only today, the authoritarianism that we're confronting isn't a foreign enemy, but one from within.
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From Philippines to NSA: 111 Years of the U.S. Surveillance State
Over the past century — from America's war in the Philippines in 1902, to the National Security Act of 1947, to the NSA's spying program in 2013 — we can see a disturbing continuum.
