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By Tracy Bloom — Lucky is not exactly the word one would use to describe someone whose videotaped beating, and the subsequent acquittal of the officers accused of beating him, touched off one of the worst urban riots in American history. But 20 years later, that’s exactly the word Rodney King, now 47, uses to describe himself.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Three targeted Americans: A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these U.S. citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained—sometimes at gunpoint—and interrogated, with no access to a lawyer.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
Requirements to disclose the chemical makeup of fluids used in fracking are often limited by a “trade secrets” provision under which companies can claim that a proprietary chemical doesn’t have to be disclosed to regulators or the public.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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AP/Douglas C. Pizac
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By Bill Boyarsky — The wealthy financiers of Americans Elect are trying to get a so-called centrist on the ballot in all 50 states. That label doesn’t apply to Anderson, who is vying for their nomination anyway and tells me “amazing things can happen.”
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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AP/Ross D. Franklin
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By Deanne Stillman — Dear Arizona State Legislature: Lately you’ve been taking a lot of criticism for “going too far.” Actually, as a constituent and natural-born U.S. citizen who takes our rights and privileges very seriously, I don’t think you’ve gone far enough.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012
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By Marian Wang, ProPublica —
Since last fall, one million borrowers have had their federal student loans randomly assigned to new loan-servicing companies, all nonprofits or subsidiaries of nonprofit organizations, thanks to a little-known provision in the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012
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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
The official American reaction to the coordinated attacks in Kabul, the Afghan capital, as well as at Jalalabad airbase, and in Paktika and Logar Provinces, reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of guerrilla warfare.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s quite possible that on Election Day, voters’ most urgent concerns—economic or not—will be driven by overseas events that neither President Obama nor his Republican opponent can predict or control.
Posted on Apr 24, 2012
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Lapham's Quarterly
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By Lewis Lapham, Lapham's Quarterly —
Why does it come to pass that the more data we collect—from Google, YouTube and Facebook—the less likely we are to know what it means?
Posted on Apr 23, 2012
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AP/Francois Mori
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By Chris Hedges — I went to Lille in northern France to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate Francois Hollande. I could, with a few alterations, have been at a football rally in Amarillo, Texas.
Posted on Apr 23, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We are about to have the worst presidential campaign money can buy.
Posted on Apr 22, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Once upon a time there was a political tribe called "liberal Republicans," led by chieftains named Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Mac Mathias and others.
Posted on Apr 22, 2012
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
Many of the country’s biggest media companies—which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations—are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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