The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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The Drone Papers, Part II: The Kill Chain
Secret military documents obtained by The Intercept offer rare documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill list of terror suspects overseas.
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Tens of Thousands March in Mexico Demanding Action Over Missing Students
In Guerrero state, site of the disappearance of 43 students who protested against school reforms, 50,000 demonstrators took to the streets with some 7,000 blocking a highway to Acapulco.
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Report: Government Agents "Directly Involved" In Most High-Profile U.S. Terror Plots
The study released Monday by Human Rights Watch raises questions about the criminal justice system's ability to respect civil rights and due process since 9/11.
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Libya In Shock After Leading Human Rights Lawyer, Activist, Feminist Assassinated
Salwa Bugaighis was stabbed and shot through the head by gunmen who broke into her house in Benghazi after she returned from voting in last Wednesday's election.
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Aided By Activists, Shunned By Racists, Syria's War Refugees Find Rocky Ground In Bulgaria
Thousands who fled Syria don’t have official status so they can’t travel further West – trapping them in Europe's poorest, most corrupt and most racist country.
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Killing of Environmental Activists Rises Globally – With Few Convicted
900 environmental activists have been killed in the past decade – but only 10 perpetrators were convicted, report says.
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Egyptian Court Issues Mass Death Sentence to 529 Morsi Supporters
More than 500 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were sentenced to death in a trial critics say lacked due process.
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How Michoacán's Armed Self-Defense Groups Are Retaking Power from Mexican Cartels
Mexican law forbids citizens from bearing most firearms, but 25,000 armed citizen self-defense groups adamantly declare it is their right to protect themselves and their communities against equally armed criminal groups.
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Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?
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In AP Scandal, Mainstream Media Gets a Taste of Government Medicine
Corporate media just got nailed with a crackdown on whistleblowing, the kind activists have experienced in heavy doses. Lo and behold, mainstream journalists don't like what they're being told to swallow.
