The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Police State
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NSA Security at Utah Data Center Stops Journalists From Shooting Video
The NSA does not want you at the Utah Data Center, nor does it want you filming there.
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Hedges: The Origins of Our Police State
The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state, as cops arrest 13 million people a year while carrying out random searches with no probable cause.
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The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution
Vast troves of U.S. secrets get regularly leaked by skilled teams of government officials engaged in propaganda campaigns to influence public opinion — posing a far graver threat to national security than revelations by Edward Snowden.
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Piracy Charges Could Mean 15-Year Sentences for Greenpeace Activists
Russia charged 14 Greenpeace activists with piracy on Wednesday for their peaceful demonstration last month scaling a Gazprom oil platform in the Arctic.
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In Government Shutdown, "Nonessential" Federal Workers Are First To Go
On Tuesday, military recruiters, drug enforcement agents and National Weather Service meteorologists will be reporting for duty, while environmental engineers, food inspectors, labor statisticians and off-duty firefighters will not.
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The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece
The crowd-sourced documentary "Into the Fire" chronicles immigrants' lives in Greece during recent years of financial and political crisis in which they've faced attacks by neo-Nazis and suffered under corrupt state law.
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Greenpeace Activists To Be Held 2 Months For Arctic Oil Protest
A Russian court ordered 20 Greenpeace activists from around the world to be held in custody for two months over a protest against offshore oil drilling in the Arctic.
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Have a Nice Day, NSA: Brazil's "Mad Cow" Retaliation to U.S. Spying
Brazil's president called NSA surveillance of her country “a breach of international law” and a violation of human rights.
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What To Do About Surveillance and the FISA Court?
If we settle for merely feel-good reforms to FISA and security state overreach, there is a clear and present danger of another big scandal whenever the next Snowden blows the whistle.
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Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
Even older cops equally alarmed by the attitudes and behaviors of younger police today, the foot soldiers in the emerging police state.
