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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining to the agency's role in monitoring the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) prot ...[Read more]
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SOPA supporters now want to bypass democratic process to push censorship for private profits through international trade agreements.
Pro-SOPA industry giants urged the White House in secretive international trade talks to adopt stronger intellectual pro ...[Read more]
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TED Talk : Richard Wilkinson :
"We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effec ...[Read more]
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Hundreds of lawyers have marched through Montreal in a subdued challenge to a new bill that harshly limits public protests. Canada ...[Read more]
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Eleven weeks ago I wrote about a lawsuit that posed a threat to my daughter ...[Read more]
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Members of Congress are demanding that U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney give full disclosure of all of his tax returns, but most are refusing to publicize their own.
The presumptive presidential nominee has disclosed his 2010 tax return and 2011 t ...[Read more]
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Investigative reporter Julia Angwin talks to Bill about how America has become a dragnet nation where mass surveillance rules. ...[Read more]
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If you think the first episode of the new Fox Cosmos series was controversial (with its relatively minor mentions of climate change, evolution, and the Big Bang), Sunday night's show threw down the gauntlet. Pretty much the entire episode was devoted to t ...[Read more]
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A federal judge has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to give her a better explanation for its refusal to turn over information to a student researching an alleged plot to assassinate “Occupy” protest leaders in Houston.
The ruling stems fro ...[Read more]
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) has spied on Chinese leaders and businesses, new Snowden docs indicate. Yet it seems that China’s telecom giant, Huawei, was the core target for the NSA campaign in China.
The new portion of revelations from the for ...[Read more]
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Research has been seen as less objectionable than other forms of interactions with drug companies, but 10 percent of researchers have multiple ties among the nine companies analyzed. That raises questions about doctors' impartiality. ...[Read more]
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