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WikiLeaks Launches Campaign to Offer $100,000 “Bounty” for Leaked Drafts of Secret TPP Chapters
We speak to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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The Ubiquity, the Banality of Mediated Policing and Punishment
How do you dismantle a system of excessive repression that many can no longer even see?
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“Mad Max: Fury Road” Is a Resource-Conscious Blockbuster for Our Time
Who ruined Mad Max's world? The new film isn't afraid to lay blame - and suggest a way forward.
NPR Tries to Scare People About the Deficit
Billionaire Peter Peterson is spending lots of money to get people to worry about the debt.
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Bill Moyers: The Challenge of Journalism Is to Survive in the Pressure Cooker of Plutocracy
What happens to a society fed a diet of rushed, re-purposed, thinly reported “content?”
Mark Crispin Miller: Neoliberalism and Its Impacts on Free Speech, Education and Democracy
Mark Crispin Miller discusses neoliberal doctrine and his new series, “Forbidden Bookshelf.”
Feeling Trapped in a Dead-End System? Cartoonist’s Affirmations Encourage Resistance
Stephanie McMillan saw the hopelessness fellow activists felt and wanted to do something to help people overcome it.
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Tony Judt: The Best Man Among Us
The moral center in Judt's work is the product perhaps of a weary knowledge of the wickedness of which humanity is capable.
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The Latest Victim in the War on Whistleblowers
Jeffrey Sterling learned the hard way that the feds will throw the book at anyone who embarrasses them.
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Revelations From Outer Space
It is not often that Hollywood supplies new data to scientists that provide insights and lead to new breakthroughs, writes Priyamvada Natarajan in this cultural critique.