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WikiLeaks Exposes Department of Homeland Security Spying on Occupy Movement
Occupy Wall Street, November 15, 2011. (Photo: Ed Gaillard) Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings last night posted a story on an internal DHS report entitled "SPECIAL …
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Occupy Wall Street Rallies Monitored by Dow Chemical
Occupy Town Square in Tompkins Square Park, East Village, New York. February 26, 2012. (Photo: David Shankbone) Last night, Wikileaks revealed a massive trove of e-mails from …
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Landing on Mars: A First Impression of Guantanamo Bay
The entrance of the prison at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) One pair …
Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism
It is crucial to develop educational approaches that reject a collapse of the distinction between market liberties and civil liberties.
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Despite Cantor’s “Zero Tolerance” Policy, More Than Ten GOP Congressmen Embroiled in Ethics Scandals
A growing number of ethics questions and investigations are mounting for the Republican House majority, despite earlier leadership pledges of ethical purity. In 2010, Rep. Eric Cantor …
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Olympia Food Co-Op Wins Anti-SLAPP Motion, Court Dismisses StandWithUs Lawsuit
Today, a Washington state court dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Olympia Food Coop by StandWithUs and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs: [The] court …
Some Things Never Change
That picture is average total annual compensation for top-five named executive officers at U.S. public companies from 2008 to 2010. (It’s from a blog post by Carol Bowie of …
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America’s Image Problem
The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning between the United States …
Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster Zone
“The world is heavy on us,” says Sakurai Katsunobu, recalling the day that its weight almost crushed the life out of his city. On the morning of March 11 …
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Government Increasingly Eyeing Dissent on Social Media
A subpoena by the New York City District Attorney’s office to Twitter should raise alarm bells for anyone who uses social media during demonstrations. According to the Electronic Frontier …