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Republicans Come Out Swinging Against Military Family Education
GOP lawmakers feel fine about asking citizens to fight and die for their country – but not about providing a proper education for those people's children.
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Act Out! [95] - Party Like it’s 1984 with the New Ministry of Truth & How Your Backyard Can Save the Bees
This week on Act Out!, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength—and it's still Russia's fault.
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Could The Civil Rights Movement Have Happened In Today's Militarized Police State?
Can peacefully exercising First Amendment rights create lasting change if police have weaponry and, apparently, legal authority to immediately and violently disperse crowds?
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Cecily McMillan Verdict Proves Dissent Is Dangerous – And More Important Than Ever
Nonviolent protest and exposure are two vital tools at our disposal – now it’s time to wake from our dream and resist.
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America's Kangaroo Justice: Welcome to The Post-Constitutional Era
Our corporate masters, unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they're igniting – and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Hedges v. Obama is a signpost on the road to dystopia.
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Hedges v. Obama: Fighting the Militarized State
This law, if it is not struck down, will essentially replace our civilian judiciary with a military one, meaning people will not have a chance to get a lawyer or see the inside of a courtroom.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
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Why More American Cities Are Rejecting the National Defense Authorization Act
As Americans stand up to claim and defend their birthright of liberty and democracy, the tide is beginning to turn against the detention provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, as legislation is passing in more U.S. cities.
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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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Albany, N.Y., Unanimously Passes Anti-NDAA Resolution
On October 7, the Albany, NY Common Council unanimously passed a resolution making it the first U.S. city to prohibit indefinite military detention without charge or trial under the National Defense Authorization Act.
