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Documents Detail Widespread Confusion on DHS Involvement in Surveillance, Crackdown on Occupy
What kind of Occupy activity is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allowed to place surveillance on? Was the agency part of the November 2011 crackdown on Occupy movement? …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Announces Fast-Track Approval of Keystone Pipeline Segment, and More
In today's On the News segment: Only five banks control more than half of all the industry's assets, President Obama announced the fast-track approval of the southern leg for the …
Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah
A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part …
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ALEC Ratified NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin’s Killer
A Florida law that may protect the man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February is the template for an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “model bill” …
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The Charts That Prove Obama Doesn’t Set Gas Prices
America produces 200 times as much oil as Germany, but our gas prices rise and fall in tandem (we pay far lower gas taxes). Source: Energy Information Administration and …
David Bacon on How US Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration
Noted journalist, author, documentary photographer, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon discussed the issues raised in his provocative and heavily-researched article, “How U.S. Policies Fueled the Great Mexican Migration.” …
The Invisible Poverty of “The Other America” of the 1960s Is Far More Visible Today
Fifty years ago (in March 1962) Michael Harrington wrote a book, “The Other America: Poverty in the United States” - a haunting tour of deprivation in an affluent society …
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Bradley Manning Prosecution Incurably Infected by Government Misconduct
Last week I spent two days in court for a pretrial motions hearing in the court martial of Bradley Manning, the private accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks that …
After Bales’ Arrest, Military Tried to Delete Him from Web
Washington - Besides waiting nearly a week before identifying the Army staff sergeant who's accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers, the U.S. military scrubbed its websites of references to …