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.
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Terror vs. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe in Two Simple Steps
Before I am bullied into accepting intrusive government surveillance that is open to politicized abuse, here are two proposals: stop creating new terrorists, and change U.S. policy toward the Arab and Muslim world.
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NSA Surveillance, the Occupy Movement and Defending Our Constitutional Rights
Our government has gone beyond its obligations to uphold the law and is blatantly violating constitutional freedoms.
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Outsourcing Big Brother: How the FBI and CIA Use Private Contractors to Monitor Social Media
Companies like Palantir Technologies Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton and i2 are mining your Facebook and Twitter data to discern whether you're a terrorist, have ties to terrorists — or maybe just have the potential to someday become one.
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What the Progressive Caucus Said - and Failed to Say - About Edward Snowden and the NSA
Leaders and members of the Progressive Caucus in Congress say things that appeal to their constituencies back home — without throwing down the gauntlet and battling an administration that has made clear its contempt for essential civil liberties.
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"Boundless Informant" Revealed: The NSA's Secret Tool to Track Global Surveillance Data
The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.
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Our Historic Challenge: Supporting the Moral Actions of Edward Snowden
In Washington, where the state of war and the surveillance state are one and the same, top officials have begun to call for Edward Snowden’s head.
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The NSA, Surveillance and the Chronic State of Terror
Why would a court order, or the government that created it, or the major telecommunication company that enforced it, have a problem discussing details of the agreement if their intentions were as sacred as they claimed?
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Tennessee Joins States Restricting Drone Flights, Citing Fourth Amendment
Governor Bill Haslam signed the Freedom of Unwarranted Surveillance Act into law last week, making Tennessee the fifth state to pass legislation restricting drone surveillance by police and federal agencies.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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Why Is Our Government Prosecuting Whistleblowers?
Government is supposed to be public and open to inspection by its citizens - and we the citizens have a constitutional right to privacy.
