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By David Sirota — Almost universally, the government officials, pundits and reporters who comprise Permanent Washington have derided Snowden and those who helped him disseminate his disclosures.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — The words “Antonin Scalia was right” do not flow easily for me. But the court’s most uncompromising conservative was correct when he issued a dire-sounding warning from the bench: “Make no mistake about it: Because of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason.”
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Ralph Nader —
If President Obama sweats the small stuff, he will empower the American people to take greater charge of their government and their future over the destructive and cowardly corporatism that now dominates Washington, D.C.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Marjorie Cohn — Because of their work in defending clients who challenge government policies, Turkish lawyers have been targeted by the government and the police in an ongoing and dangerous process of attorney criminalization.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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Good schools are essential to democracy and prosperity—and it is our collective responsibility to educate all children, not just a fortunate few, according to a manifesto on the Education Opportunity Network. To rebuild America, we need a vision for 21st-century education based on seven principles, it urges.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
Creation is always in the dark because you can only do the work of making by not quite knowing what you’re doing. Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that’s where they may be seen by others, that’s not where they’re born.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Once-rare severe flooding events could occur as frequently as once a decade by the end of this century.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistle-blower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — In the matter of Edward Snowden, I have no opinion as to whether he is a hero, a traitor or just a self-celebrating fool. I do, however, think he is necessary and his timing is good.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Victoria Brittain, TomDispatch —
A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have brought Guantanamo back into American consciousness. Still unnoticed and out of the news, however, is a comparable situation in the U.S. itself, involving a pattern of controversial terrorism trials that result in devastating prison sentences involving the harshest forms of solitary confinement.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
A vast, globally important river basin in Canada five times the size of France is at great risk from a potential catastrophic oil spill from the mining of tar sands.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica —
Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies. But secrecy around the programs has meant even basic questions are still unanswered. Here’s what we still don’t know.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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By Robert Reich — Economic determinists—fatalists, really—assume that globalization and technological change must now condemn a large portion of the American workforce to under-unemployment and stagnant wages, while rewarding those with the best eductions and connections with ever higher wages and wealth.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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By Chase Madar, TomDispatch —
Bradley Manning, the young Army intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of public documents and passed them on to WikiLeaks, has done far more for U.S. national security than SEAL Team 6.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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