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That Surveillance Reform Bill Was Gutted, Passed and Sent to the Senate
Want real surveillance reform? Well, we almost had it. The USA Freedom Act started off with a roar before being slightly weakened (compromised is the word being used) by …
Our Words Are Our Weapons: The Feminist Battle of the Story in the Wake of the Isla Vista Massacre
The struggle has been and will be long and harsh and sometimes ugly, and the backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning.
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Our Militarized Police Tossed a Stun Grenade at a Baby
Right now, a 1-year-old toddler with severe burns is clinging to life in a Georgia hospital, after a SWAT team barged into the house where he and his family …
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Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal“
Policy must assure the security of state authority and concentrations of domestic power, defending them from a frightening enemy: the domestic population, which can become a great danger if …
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We All Must Become Zapatistas
The transformation by the EZLN is one that is crucial to remember as we search for mechanisms to sever ourselves from the corporate state and build self-governing communities.
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
Meet the Organizer Who Pulled Off the “Gap Does More” Hoax
A small online organizing group threw punches at one of the United States' largest corporations in an effort to change the international labor practices of the Gap.
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Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack and Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill for Walmart
Is this a nasty bug in the Obama presidency, or a corrupt core feature?
Brazil’s World Cup 2014: Private Security “Made in the USA“
Security has become a market in itself, and only those who can pay have access to it.
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Landscape of Paranoia
The architecture of city today reflects the emphasis on exclusionary privatized space and the limiting of any genuine commons. It is a landscape of paranoia.