This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Billionaires Unchained: The New Pay-As-You-Go Landscape of American “Democracy”
There is no limit to the amount of money billionaires can give to influence the political discussion in this country.
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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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Following Backlash, Tennessee Gov Vetoes Ag-Gag Bill
After thousands of Tennesseans protested the new law, Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed his state’s “ag-gag” bill that would have criminalized undercover investigations at horse stables and factory farm facilities.
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The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
When they should have been investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s extremist ties in 2011, Homeland Security and the Boston Police were busy collecting information on peaceful antiwar activists from Code PINK and Veterans for Peace.
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Nationwide Ag-Gag Laws: Stripping our First Amendment
Ag-gag bills nationwide threaten to quash free speech by banning journalists, whistleblowers, workers and other citizens from exposing illegal and abusive treatment of animals at factory feeding operations owned by huge corporations.
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The NYPD Rewrites History
After serving as the epicenter for press suppression and journalist arrests over the last nine months, the NYPD is trying to rewrite history and pretend like nothing ever happened.
