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America: Addicted to War, Afraid of Peace
After decades of being at war, the United States has come to the point where it can’t live without it.
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Google Reveals It Was Forced to Hand Over Journalist’s Data for WikiLeaks Grand Jury Investigation
Google released another legal disclosure notice related to the United States government’s ongoing grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks. It informed journalist and technologist Jacob Appelbaum, who previously worked with WikiLeaks, that Google was ordered to provide data from his account. By Kevin Gosztola.
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The Appropriation of Cultures
By Percival Everett.
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DoJ's Gag Order On Reason Has Been Lifted — But The Real Story Is More Outrageous Than We Thought
"So, the truth is out — and it's more outrageous than you thought, even more outrageous than it appears at first glance."
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Have liberals been backed into a corner on trade?
The endgame on Obama’s trade agenda comes into focus. By Greg Sargent.
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“We got geeks”: Inside Google’s ugly war against the homeless in LA
In Los Angeles, Google has a brilliantly simple plan to combat homelessness: Hire private security to harass and push the homeless out sight, and then make sure that the smelly bastards and their tents and carts never come back.
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Dems wave white flag in trade fight
House Democrats say they no longer have any reason to block a worker aid bill.
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[Maine] House Speaker Mark Eves loses new job, accuses [Governor] LePage of ‘blackmail’
Eves, a Democrat, says the Republican governor threatened to cut the Good Will-Hinckley School's funding by $500,000 a year after it offered to make Eves its president.
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The Cartel Gunsmiths
A homebrew gun club for a rising Mexican gang used maker-style milling tech to produce AR-15s from scratch. Was it a one-off novelty, or an omen?
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What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
State and local law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are setting up fake cell towers to gather mobile data, but few will admit it.
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UK Politician Theresa May Tries To Out-Orwell Orwell With Insanely Authoritarian Speech
While she insists that the UK isn't a surveillance state, she can't tell you why, because revealing the secrets of the UK surveillance state might put the public at risk...
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Scalia tried to make the court a conservative stronghold. He failed
With Obamacare, the Justice's legislative vision has been dealt a death blow.
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Sierra Leone’s Rich and Powerful Are Breaking the Ebola Burial Rules
And it's putting everyone at risk.
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Honduras under Occupation - murders, land grabs, and Hillary Clinton’s ‘hard choices’
Honduras has endured six years of violence and land grabs after the 2009 US-backed military coup made the country a playground for Hillary Clinton's billionaire friends, write Eric Draitser & Ramiro S. Fúnez - and a hell for the country’s indigenous and small scale farming communities, whose leaders are routinely murdered with impunity by US-trained forces.
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An Attack on Press Freedom: Spiegel Targeted by US Intelligence
Revelations from WikiLeaks published this week show how boundlessly and comprehensively American intelligence services spied on the German government. It has now emerged that the US also conducted surveillance against Spiegel .
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The Mad King and Magna Carta
How did a peace treaty signed — and broken — 800 years ago become one of the world's most influential documents?
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Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds
The scathing report, commissioned by the American Psychological Association, says the C.I.A. used prominent outside psychologists to quell internal objections. By James Risen.
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The story of Brazil’s killer cops
Street-level war has now spread to every city, as civilians and criminals alike face deadly injustice at the hands of the police.
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Texas Won’t Give Birth Certificates to Children of Undocumented Women
State officials have refused to give an untold number of Texas-born children birth certificates due to their parents’ immigration status, according to a lawsuit that was filed earlier this year...
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Sandra Bland Was Murdered
Suicide or not, police are responsible for Sandra Bland’s death. By Matt Taibbi.
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