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Death by Metadata: Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald Reveal NSA Role in Assassinations Overseas
In the first expose for their new venture, First Look Media's digital journal The Intercept, investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald reveal the National Security Agency is using …
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Famous First Words: “I Have Been Unfaithful to My Husband”
The stunning directness and immediacy of the opening line of Sigrid Unset's first novel, “Marta Oulie,” are sustained throughout its pages.
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Henry A. Giroux | Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State
Henry A. Giroux: The NSA and other intelligence agencies work hard to create an authoritarian state in which the “electronic self” becomes public property.
Animal Rights “Terrorism” Law Should be Struck Down, Attorneys Argue
CCR filed the first civil challenge to the AETA, Blum v. Holder, in 2011.
How Arts and Organizing Helped Defeat Alabama’s Anti-Immigration Law
While much of the media coverage has focused on the work of large legal aid groups, I saw firsthand the power and impact that community and arts organizing played …
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In ‘Nuestro Texas,’ A Call for Human Rights in Reproductive Health Care
A new report on access to reproductive health care in the Rio Grande Valley highlights the human rights violations happening right in the US.
GAP Promotes Privacy Statement for All Emails to Protest Mass Surveillance Revealed by Whistleblower Edward Snowden
GAP champions government and corporate accountability and transparency by defending whistleblowers and advancing occupational free speech.
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The Hypocrisy of Human Rights Watch
This affinity for the US government agenda is not limited to Latin America.
The EU Presidency and the Bottom of the Aegean Sea
While there is a growing ideological intimacy between centrist-right and extreme-right parties throughout Europe, the brutal treatment of migrants has been particularly egregious of late in Greece.
Vermont Becomes 12th State With Legislation Targeting NSA Spying
Last week, a trio of Vermont legislators introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act to prohibit any state support of the NSA's gathering of citizens' electronic data or metadata in …