Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Homeland Security Wants a Nationwide License Plate Tracking System
The tracking system would give the agency access to vast amounts of information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers.
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Why Are Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles Active in Texas?
In an absurdly dangerous militarization of America's police departments, our sprawling DHS and Pentagon are spreading war equipment, war techniques and a war mentality to our supposed community peacekeepers and crime solvers.
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Boston PD's New Assault Rifles Raise Serious Questions About Paramilitarized Police
“Do we want police officers who are sent out into our streets to be trained as if — and equipped as if — the people they encounter on their patrols are enemy hostile targets, as if in a war?”
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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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Why Did a Texas Fracking Exec Threaten to Label Residents “Terrorists”?
The chief operating officer of Eagleridge, Inc., is operating straight out of the frack industry playbook, based on a Stratfor document leaked earlier this year which laid out the strategy to label activists as “radicals,” “idealists,” “realists” and “opportunists.”
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Congress to America: Eat the Turkey, Starve the Poor
The stimulus gave banks trillions, the military kept its nose in the trough, and the poorest Americans were spared a few billion for food. For a government to encourage the spread of hunger throughout the wealthiest nation is, well, monstrous.
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Hedges: Jeremy Hammond and the Revolutionaries In Our Midst
Hammond appears for sentencing Friday in Manhattan and could face 10 years in prison for hacking the security firm Stratfor and exposing its infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of nonviolent protesters for corporations and the security state.
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Police "War Games" And Weapons Expo Brings Global Militarized Elite to Oakland
At the 7th annual “Urban Shield” event held in Oakland, law enforcement officials from across America and the world could browse and purchase a plethora of military weapons, from the latest in munitions to armored cars and drones.
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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition and is acquiring heavily armored tanks which have been seen roaming the U.S. streets. It's clear this is meant for unrest at home, and not abroad.
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Two Years On: Successes, Challenges and Next Steps for the Occupy Movement
With things getting only better for the rich and worse for the poor, it's not a question of if, but when, the next historic shift in the tectonic plates of global capitalism will take place.
