The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Video: Are Computer Laws Too Tough On "Hacktivists"?
“So you get 25 years in prison for forcibly entering your way into a computer, but one year in prison for forcibly entering your way into a female?” said Deric Lostutter, who exposed the rape of a girl in Steubenville, Ohio, and is now facing criminal charges.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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Occupy Wall Street, Two Years On: We're Still the 99%
Two years ago, in scores of encampments across America, a new generation found its calling.
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Bradley Manning to Request Pardon from Obama Over 35-Year Jail Sentence
The sentence was more severe than many observers expected, and is much longer than any punishment given to previous U.S. government officials who have leaked information to the media.
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Manning Verdict Risks Freedom of the Press If the People Do Not Act
For a whistleblower who exposed war crimes and unethical government behavior to face a lengthy prison term while the people exposed are not even investigated shows how confused the United States has become.
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Julian Assange Launches WikiLeaks Party in Australia
The founder of the world's most prominent whistleblower group formally announced the launch of the WikiLeaks Party on Thursday, along with his candidacy and six other members who will run for senate seats in Australia's fall election.
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What Edward Snowden Taught Us About American Freedom
Americans fully recognize the threat the U.S. security state poses to American liberty, with a poll last week showing 55% consider Edward Snowden a whistleblower, not a traitor. But who, now, will protect this hero?
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Fighting the Surveillance State: An Interview with Iceland's Birgitta Jonsdottir
Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden represent just the tip of the iceberg of a popular resistance that is challenging the U.S. government’s excesses in surveillance, says the Icelandic MP.
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Whistleblowing 2.0: From the Pentagon Papers to Bradley Manning to PRISM
From Edward Snowden’s bombshell revelations about the extent of state snooping, to the ongoing court martial of Private Bradley Manning, 2013 has become the year of the whistleblower.
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WikiLeaks' Baltasar Garzón: The Man Edward Snowden Wants On His Side
Best known as the superjudge who ordered the arrest of General Pinochet, the crusading legal head of WikiLeaks has been approached by the NSA whistleblower to represent him.
