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What Country Should You Flee to? Citizenship Info for US Asylum Seekers
After a month of being held hostage in the Moscow airport, U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has finally been granted a one-year temporary asylum in Russia. Still, …
Obama Negotiates Cuts to Medicare as the Program Reaches Its 48th Anniversary
Last week marked the 48th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare.
The Negotiations Begin: Obama’s Constitution, Snowden’s Constitution and Criminal Law
Edward Snowden is not a constitutional lawyer. But his public statements explaining his decision to blow the whistle on what he and Congress both know to be only the …
An Easy Toll Tax
While the weight of taxation continues to shift to the backs of the working and middle classes and onto the books of small businesses, Congress dithers about reforming the …
ITPI Requests All Communications on Privatizing Detroit’s Public Services; City Has Five Days to Respond to FOIA Request
Late yesterday, In the Public Interest (ITPI) filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all correspondence relating to the contracting of Detroit's public services from December of last …
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DEA Using NSA Surveillance to Crack Down on Drug Crimes?
A new report reveals that a secretive DEA unit funnels surveillance info from gov't agencies to law enforcement — and tells them to hide it.
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The Twisted Value Judgments Behind US Sanctions Policy
Senator Lindsey Graham, the most radical authoritarian in the radically authoritarian U.S. Senate, has introduced a legislative measure that would impose trade sanctions on any country that offers asylum …
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud
The concept of a do-it-yourself retirement was a fraud.
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Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy
Americans are shielded from the ugly consequences of US military power by our journalists' self-censorship.
The Greatest Threat to Global Food Security: Capitalism
The current Industrial mass production of food for profit is a political, economic and social crisis that has devastating effects on human health and threatens the survival of the …