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19 May ' 07:06
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Drones Over the Homeland: From Border Security to National Security
By Tom Barry, | Op-Ed
A Predator B aircraft in Palmdale, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2009. To help spot and track smugglers, the Homeland Security Department is expanding its use of drones, the unmanned aircraft widely used in war zones, beyond the Mexican and Canadian borders to the Caribbean and possibly other seas. (Photo: Ann Johansson / The New York Times) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it is the "leading edge" of drone deployment in the United States. Since 2005, DHS has been purchasing Predator drones - officially called unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - to "secure the border," yet these unarmed Predator drones are also steadily creeping into local law enforcement, international drug-interdiction and national security missions - including across the border into the heart of Mexico.
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Arab Spring Not Over Yet in Bahrain
By Rick Rowden, TruthoutWhile the world focuses on the fallout from the Arab Spring in major countries like Egypt and Syria, a seething frustration continues to mount among democracy aspirants on the tiny Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain. The United States once again finds itself torn between its claims to support democracy and its desire to back autocratic regimes which support what it claims are its strategic imperatives in the Gulf region. But democracy activists in Bahrain are growing increasingly impatient with continued autocratic rule at home and US support for repression.
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From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain
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Arab Spring Not Over Yet in Bahrain
By Rick Rowden,
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Drones Over the Homeland: From Border Security to National Security
By Tom Barry, | Op-Ed
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19 May ' 01:58
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18 May ' 20:48
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18 May ' 15:31
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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia - and the neighbors aren't pleased.
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Who's Your Highest-Paid State Employee?
The highest paid state employee in four out of five states is … a sports coach.
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18 May ' 10:05
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Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment "Reform"
The Clinton-era arguments used to end welfare have been turned on the unemployed twenty years later.
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The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
Russia warned the FBI about the Boston bombing mastermind, but the bureau focused on Occupy protesters.
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Reproductive Rights Receding More Quickly for Some Women: A Review of "Crow After Roe"
By Eleanor J Bader, | Book Review
(Image: IG Publishing)Forty years post-Roe, advocates for reproductive justice have little to brag about. After all, women who have abortions are often shamed and scorned. What's more, most of the country prohibits Medicaid from paying for abortions, imposes parental consent and notification requirements on teens, requires waiting periods between scheduling a procedure and actually having it, and mandates pre-abortion "counseling" that is all-too-frequently filled with misrepresentations and factual deception. That said, there's also no reason for pro-choicers to hang their heads.Authors Marty and Pieklo, both regular contributors to RH Reality Check, a daily blog focused on news and analysis about reproductive health and gender justice, zero in on 11 states: Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Texas and Utah. Each of those states, the authors report, have passed laws intended to force the Supreme Court to reconsider the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
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Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism
By Michael A. Peters with Marianna Papastephanou, | InterviewMichael Peters: If you might permit me as a non-European, oriented and socialized through European ideals, it seems that Cyprus' current crisis is strongly related to a kind of neoliberal financial capitalism that is cosmopolitan, although not democratic. The orientation of Brussels has always been toward the pact for the euro that points the way to institutionalized fiscal austerity and the priority of debt repayment.
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Feds Falsely Use Specter of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist
By Tom Hintze, AlterNet | ReportJust 17 days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the largest spectacle of terrorism on US soil since 9/11, the FBI added the first woman to its list of “Most Wanted Terrorists” for a crime she is accused of committing more than 40 years ago. This is just the latest attempt by the federal government to rewrite the history of radical activists from the '60s and '70s and cover up the government's illegal actions aimed at stopping them.
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Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots
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Marc Lendler: "Every Idea Is an Incitement..."
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Congressmen Pocan and Ellison Introduce "Right to Vote" Constitutional Amendment
By Brendan Fischer, PRWatch | Report -
FEMA Denies Aid to Housing Co-ops After Sandy
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Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Labor Is Dealt Two New Blows, and More
By Jim Javinsky, The Thom Hartmann Program | Video Report
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FEMA Denies Aid to Housing Co-ops After Sandy
By Laura Flanders, GritTV Congressmen Pocan and Ellison Introduce "Right to Vote" Constitutional Amendment
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Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity
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Who's Your Highest-Paid State Employee?
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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
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The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism
By Carl Gibson, Occupy.com -
Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment "Reform"
By Gordon Lafer, Labor Notes -
Feds Falsely Use Specter of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist
By Tom Hintze, AlterNet | Report -
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Labor Is Dealt Two New Blows, and More
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Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism
By Michael A. Peters with Marianna Papastephanou,
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Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots
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Marc Lendler: "Every Idea Is an Incitement..."
By Aaron Leonard, History News Network | Interview
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18 May ' 04:47
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17 May ' 23:05
Saturday, 18 May 2013 / TRUTH-OUT.ORG- Hits: 1906946
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17 May ' 16:31
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17 May ' 09:00
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Surveillance After Boston
The Boston attacks may just be the catalyst that transforms the US into George Orwell's Oceania.
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Unfolding Repression in the Shadows of the Guatemalan Genocide Trial
Observers fear current human rights abuses are being eclipsed by the genocide trial.
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Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
By P.L. Thomas,
Officer Craig Davis, a former municipal policeman now with the Houston school district force, monitors a hallway at E.L. Furr High School in Houston, March 20, 2013. (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New York Times)Just as the education reform movement was spurred by a "manufactured crisis," as exposed by Gerald Bracey and Holton, the War on Drugs grew out of a racially divisive political agenda, a drug crisis that did not yet exist, but created "mass incarceration in the United States . . . as a stunningly comprehensive and well-designed system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to Jim Crow," as Alexander details.Since market-oriented education reform is producing evidence highlighting the ineffectiveness and even negative outcomes associated with those policies, that the agendas remain robust suggests, again like mass incarceration, education reform fulfills many of the dynamics found in the New Jim Crow.
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The Casualties of Justice
By Max Eternity,International terrorism always gets headlines. Getting much less attention is the ongoing government-sanctioned terror against blacks in America.This is not hyperbole. The problem is real, and systemic, and a new report out this month confirms it. Terror is terror, and it often ends in incarcerating the innocent - or worse. Domestic terror against blacks includes a death count at the hands of "police, security guards and vigilantes," resulting in the fatality of an African-American every 28 hours.
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84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft in a New Survey
By Josh Eidelson, The Nation | ReportAt an 11 am press conference yesterday outside a Brooklyn KFC restaurant, fast food workers and activists will release a new report alleging rampant wage theft in their industry, one of the fastest-growing in the United States. The report includes results from an Anzalone Liszt Grove research survey of 500 of the city’s fast food workers, in which 84 percent reported that their employer had committed some form of wage theft over the previous year.
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Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess
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A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About Afghanistan
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Another CIA Debacle: The Real Benghazi Scandal
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Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade
By Mark Engler, Dissent Magazine
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"The Other IRS Scandal": David Cay Johnston on Dark Money Political Groups Seeking Tax Exemption
By Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, -
Taxing Corporate Profits Will Force Investment
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AP Monitoring Raises Fears of Government Overreach: How Far Will Obama Go to Crack Down on Leaks?
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Inside the Cooper Union Occupation's First Hours
By Zachary Bell, Waging Nonviolence -
A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About Afghanistan
By Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Website -
Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess
By Brendan Fischer, PRWatch -
84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft in a New Survey
By Josh Eidelson, The Nation -
Surveillance After Boston
By Ali Winston,
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Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade
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Another CIA Debacle: The Real Benghazi Scandal
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The Casualties of Justice
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Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
By P.L. Thomas,
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AP Monitoring Raises Fears of Government Overreach: How Far Will Obama Go to Crack Down on Leaks?
By Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! | Video Report -
Taxing Corporate Profits Will Force Investment
By Paul Jay, The Real News Network | Interview and Video -
"The Other IRS Scandal": David Cay Johnston on Dark Money Political Groups Seeking Tax Exemption
By Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! | Video Report
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17 May ' 01:46
Friday, 17 May 2013 / TRUTH-OUT.ORG- Hits: 1906891
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