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+21 +1Car was driving away from [not at] officer when he shot boy with rifle, Balch Springs [Texas police] chief says
The police chief in Balch Springs admitted Monday that a car full of teens was driving away from police when an officer armed with a rifle fatally shot a 15-year-old boy in the head. By Jennifer Emily, Julieta Chiquillo, Charles Scudder, Eline de Bruijn.
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+25 +1Case Farms Took Advantage of Immigrant Workers, Then Used U.S. Immigration and Labor Law Against Them When They Got Hurt or Fought Back
One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then, when they got hurt or fought back, it used America’s laws against them. By Michael Grabell.
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+15 +1Homeland Security Head to America: Shut Up, Be Terrified, and Do What You’re Told
Secretary John Kelly wants you to know that the problem is you, not them. By Scott Shackford.
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+25 +1Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing ‘I Am An Engineer’ in an Email to the Government
An electronics engineer says he found a flaw in traffic lights. The Oregon engineering board fined him for it. By Jason Koebler.
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+32 +1How The FBI Used Murder And Blackmail To Thwart The Civil Rights And Antiwar Movements
They conducted illegal actions against U.S. citizens for two decades and got away with it. By Richard Stockton.
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+18 +1The Living Disappeared
During Argentina’s military dictatorship, some 500 babies were born in secret torture centers or kidnapped. A group of grandmothers spent the next four decades searching for them. One was named Martín. By Bridget Huber.
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+4 +1What did the UN apartheid report expose in reality?
As Israel moves towards confronting apartheid, the questions raised by the report will become impossible to avoid. By Mark LeVine. (Mar. 19, 2017)
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+37 +1You’re Not Mad at United Airlines; You’re Mad at America
This is a symptom of a disease that runs bone-deep. By Shane Ryan.
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+29 +1Turkey is about to use democracy to end its democracy
The Turkish people are voting in a momentous constitutional referendum this month that would give the president unprecedented power. By Tezcan Gumus.
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+18 +1We are the war on terror, and the war on terror is us
”This is a sea change.“ By Thanassis Cambanis.
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+25 +1In Anaconda, Montana, History Repeats Itself
The more things change… By Ed Kemmick.
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+15 +1Why Power Brings Out Your True Self
Are you a tyrant or a servant? By Matthew Hutson.
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+1 +1Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever
Original, painstaking, sometimes frustrating and often dazzling. Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever. By Colin Koopman.
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+28 +1When Art Meets Power
It is impossible and wrong, in this fascinating exhibition on Russian art between 1917-1932, to separate art from politics, utopian propaganda from dystopian tragedy. Aesthetic judgement is inevitably compromised. Some may think it obscene to celebrate this period in Russian art: yet it is surely right to make us confront it, to see the boldness of the art and to try and fathom the mixed motives, the hopes and fears and struggles of the artists involved. Right too, when the headlines are full of Trump and Putin, to remind us of the history. By Jenny Uglow.
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+9 +1Aggressive Interrogation of Artists and Writers at U.S. Border
Several writers have spoken out about their treatment at the border, which have altered their views of the United States and what it stands for.
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+11 +1How President Trump is already imperiling constitutional government
What it means for federal law enforcement to reportedly disobey a court order on Trump’s immigration ban. By Ryan Cooper.
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+19 +1Spare Us the Theatrics
Trump’s Fortress America is rooted in the Obama years. By Justin Raimondo.
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+29 +1Halt citizen: beware Trump and his internet killswitch
Be careful what you Tweet, folks, the new US Commander in Chief may just turn off your pesky internet. By Jessica Sier.
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+5 +1Blue Lies Matter: How The Rise Of Video Shattered Police Credibility
Cameras prove cops lie, and there are more cameras out in the world today than ever before. BuzzFeed News reviewed 62 incidents of video footage contradicting an officer’s statement. From traffic stops to fatal force, these cases reveal how cops are incentivized to lie — and why they get away with it. By Albert Samaha.
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+19 +1In Defence of Assaulting Fascists
“Only one thing could have stopped us – if our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first day smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.” — Adolf Hitler. By Anas El Hawat.
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