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Edward Snowden: 'The People Are Still Powerless, But Now They're Aware'
Five years after historic NSA leaks, the whistleblower says he has no regrets.
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The Coming Iran Crisis and the Urgency for a Progressive Foreign Policy Alternative
A progressive foreign policy would reject the use of the American military as a global police force, support social democracy internationally instead of unfettered global capitalism, and push strongly for demilitarization.
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The DHS Database of Journalists Will End Independent News Media as We Know It
The move by DHS is widely expected to have a “chilling effect” on the number of journalists applying for visas to travel overseas and report on what they see there.
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The 4 Biggest Banks Have Already Made $2.3 Billion Off Trump’s Tax Law
The president promised that his tax law would not favor the “wealthy and well-connected.”
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These States Want to Make Planning A Pipeline Protest A Crime
A slew of bills proposed in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota – all states with controversial pipeline projects currently under consideration – take the criminalization of protest one step further.
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Capturing Minds: Is There Life After Facebook?
The new crypto-social network Minds allows for the same level of high-functioning interaction as Facebook, but a big difference is that it is completely open-source, decentralized and user-owned.
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Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant's Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago
"Just like Exxon, Shell knew about the dangers of climate change and instead chose to embark on a decades-long campaign of deception," said 350.org executive director May Boeve.
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'Sabotage' of Democracy as Trump Adds Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
"This administration is now using the census as a weapon against immigrants."
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The Alt-Right Is Literally Killing People. What Will It Take To Stop Them?
The Florida high school massacre, unfortunately, is another data point in a complex and disturbing portrait of the developing, fundamentally disorganized group known as the alt-right.
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The Next Stage of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins
There are multiple fronts of struggle to make net neutrality a reality: Congress, the courts, states and communities.
