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For Real Economic Recovery, Government Must Stop Favoring Banks Over Homeowners
What can local and federal governments do to resolve the foreclosure crisis for real?

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Targeted Killing White Paper Leaked to NBC News Turned Over to Truthout by DOJ in Response to a Six-Month-Old FOIA Request Four Days Later
The white paper was identical to the one leaked to NBC News, except the one Truthout received was dated November 8, 2011 and was marked “draft.”

Leaked White Paper the “Tip of the Iceberg”: An Interview With Marjorie Cohn About Targeted Killings
Radio host Dennis Bernstein recently interviewed legal scholar and editor Marjorie Cohn on the Pacifica radio network's weekday show, Flashpoints.

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The Shocking Details of a Mississippi School-to-Prison Pipeline
Wear the wrong color socks to school in Meridian, Mississippi, and you might end up in juvy.

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Pennsylvania Refuses to Comply With US Department of Justice Photo ID Document Request
Pennsylvania has refused to turn over documents to the U.S. Department of Justice in order to determine whether the state's new polling place Photo ID restriction law is in …

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US Walks Back Terrorist Claims Against High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to …

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A “Victory” in My FOIA Lawsuit Against the FBI
Founder of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Information Policy calls FBI actions

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Department of Justice Accused of Undermining FOIA Ombudsman
Indeed, one veteran Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requester said,