This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Justice Deferred: The Espionage Act and Reality Winner's Imprisonment
“I’ve never been an advocate-activist type of person, but this really permeated me," said Wendy Meer Collins, an advocate on behalf of the imprisoned whistleblower Reality Winner. "It just seemed so wrong.”
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Toxic "Reform" Law Will Gut State Rules on Dangerous Chemical
A new set of bills that aims to update the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act may nullify the efforts of states such as Maine and California to regulate dangerous chemicals.
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Defense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes Over Global Turmoil
The resurgence of global security threats promises a lucrative rebound in defense spending, according to a new report.
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The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
How the group’s mission went from racial integration to black separatism — and eventually to lobbying on behalf of corporate interests and the police state.
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Documents Reveal Canada’s Secret Hacking Tactics
Canada has adopted aggressive tactics to attack, sabotage and infiltrate targeted computer systems.
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Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers
Of the 680,000 people caught up in the government’s Terrorist Screening Database, more than 40 percent are described by the government as having “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.”
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Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On
In the place where the target’s real name would go, the memo offers a fake name as a placeholder: “Mohammed Raghead.”
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How the NSA Plans to Infect "Millions" of Computers with Malware
The NSA used Facebook as a Trojan horse to infect targets with malware.
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How Covert Agents use the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
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Four Journalists Who Broke NSA Story Receive George Polk Awards
Four journalists who broke Edward Snowden's NSA revelations are among the recipients of the prestigious award.
