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"On the one hand, it's deeply worrying that the government is seeking to create a surveillance culture that encompasses spying on all digital media. "On the other, that same …

This has been a bad stretch for advocates of financial reform – and therefore for the economy as a whole. One after the other, new financial regulations contained in …

“Today, Afghanistan and the U.S. initialed and locked the text of the strategic partnership agreement,” said Karzai's spokesman, Aimal Faizi. “This means the text is closed...” Why ‘lock’ or …

A potentially dangerous oil well blowout at a Chesapeake Energy site in Wymoing caused at least 60 and perhaps 70 residents to evacuate within 5 miles of the disaster for several …

McCormick Place, site of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, Illinois. Operation Red Zone, a security perimeter around the site, will be patrolled by federal law enforcement carrying “non-lethal” …

Organizers and protesters around the world will come together to commemorate International Workers Day tomorrow, and they are taking on familiar targets. Large protest actions are planned in more …

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural …

Occupy Santa Fe protesters demonstrate against ALEC in January, 2012. (Photo: suenosdeuomi) Customers should be able to know if companies that they are supporting with their purchases are busy …

In Honduras, as in most places, the government and the wealthy treat land as a commodity. In pursuit of the profits it offers, they have taken enormous tracts of …

No one likes a smart aleck — or a stupid one, for that matter. A really stupid one is called ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which masquerades as …