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Progressives to Put US War Crimes on Trial and Demand Freedom for Julian Assange
"At the Belmarsh Tribunal, we will turn the world the right way up," participant Jeremy Corbyn says, "placing crimes of war, torture, kidnapping, and a litany of other gross human rights abuses on trial." ...[Read more]
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Julian Assange Kidnapping Plot Casts New Light on 2018 Senate Intelligence Maneuver
The CIA labeled WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service” while entertaining plans to kidnap or assassinate its founder. ...[Read more]
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Theocratic Christianity has come to Texas
Conservatives go to great lengths to hide how much being anti-abortion is about forcing all Americans to live by the religious tenets of the white evangelical minority. Indeed, Republicans will often try to pretend "science" is motivating abortion bans, a ...[Read more]
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UN Human Rights Experts: Texas Abortion Ban Is a Violation of International Law
"This new law will make abortion unsafe and deadly, and create a whole new set of risks for women and girls." ...[Read more]
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Portland’s Bizarre Experiment With Not Policing Proud Boys Rampage Ends in Gunfire
Portland's police force chose to stand back and stand by as Proud Boys who came to the city to fight with anti-fascists assaulted protesters and a right-wing gunman opened fire. ...[Read more]
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Drone Whistleblower Gets 45 Months in Prison for Revealing Ongoing US War Crimes
On July 27, a federal district court judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale to 45 months in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. In 2015, Hale, whose job involved identifying targets f ...[Read more]
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The Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of the Julian Assange Case
The battle to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from the United Kingdom to the United States is shaping up to be a legal case of paramount importance to the future of national security reporting. The U.S. continues to press the case even after ...[Read more]
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The failed legacy of the 50-year War on Drugs started with a lie
Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon stood before the White House press corps, staffers at his side, to announce "a new, all-out offensive" against drug abuse, which he denounced as "America's public enemy number one." He called on C ...[Read more]
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ICE Discussed Punishing Immigrant Advocates for Peaceful Protests
Internal documents show how ICE surveilled immigrant advocates’ protest activities — and floated retaliating against them for it. ...[Read more]
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One Man’s No-Fly List Nightmare
Ashraf Maniar was surveilled and harassed at home in the U.S., and detained by a foreign government, after being placed on the no fly list. ...[Read more]
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Oracle Boasted That Its Software Was Used Against U.S. Protesters. Then It Took the Tech to China.
According to the documents and to video presentations, CPD used a tool called Endeca Information Discovery, a product from tech giant Oracle, to merge crime records, 911 calls, and other routine police information with protesters’ tweets. Oracle claims ...[Read more]
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