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You Are, In Fact, Being Watched
If they can jail someone based on surveillance-gathered data forwarded surreptitiously to the DEA, why not you?
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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.
ALEC Turns 40, But Who’s Behind It?
Brendan Fisher: After forty years, corporate-funded ALEC remains an organization filled with secrecy.
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Criminalization, Race and Food Access in a Time of Hyper-Afrophobia
The right to access quality food is profoundly connected to the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People of color should enjoy all these rights, but …
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Current Political System Incapable of Meeting Social, Economic, Environmental Challenges
A long and slow-developing path forward might be called “evolutionary reconstruction.”
Noam Chomsky: “Bradley Manning Should Be Regarded as a Hero”
Laura Flanders interviews Noam Chomsky about Manning, the TransPacific Partnership and the wisdom of the indigenous.
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Tunisian Protesters Occupy the Streets as Parliament on Verge of Collapse
Thirty-three months later, thousands of protesters, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, now seek the ouster of Tunisia's elected Islamist Ennahdha government, which has failed to produce a …
New Monetary Systems for a Sustainable Democracy and “The Great Turning“
Our money system is ill-equipped to help us solve the socio-economic and ecological challenges we face.
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Not Everyone Who Has an Abortion Is a Woman – How to Frame the Abortion Rights Issue
We should begin to grapple with why we continue to be so reluctant or unable to be more gender inclusive.
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Concentrated, Privatized Wealth or Shared Prosperity and Economic Democracy?
It is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.