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Laura Poitras, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Filmmaker Laura Poitras Sues US Over "Kafkaesque" Harassment Poitras has spoken openly about her harassment at U.S. borders, which included reportedly being placed on the government's No Fly List after returning home from filming My Country, My Country, a 2006 documentary which profiled Iraqi critics of the U.S. occupation. She has also had her laptop, camera, mobile phone, and reporter notebooks seized and their contents copied, according to the suit.
The average class of 2015 borrower will graduate college with just over $35,000 in debt., From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 17, 2015
Citing Soaring Student Debt, Sanders to Pitch Tuition-Free Higher Education With student debt figures continuing to climb, Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to unveil legislation this week to provide tuition-free higher education for students at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The proposal, which Sanders plans to introduce on Tuesday, would eliminate undergraduate tuition at public colleges and universities and expand work-study programs.
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SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 19, 2015
Bernie Sanders: Hillary, GOP Won't Take on Corporate Power Republicans and Democrats, they say, oh, we'll create all these jobs by having a trade agreement with China. Well, the answer is, they were wrong, wrong, wrong. Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.
Activists stage a protest in January 2014 urging California Governor Jerry Brown to ban fracking in the midst of a historic drought., From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 5, 2015
In Dry California, Thirsty Oil and Big-Ag Industries Exempt from Water Regulations California Governor Jerry Brown this week instituted the state's first-ever mandatory restrictions on water usage to combat its historic four-year drought, and environmental activists are pointing out two glaring exemptions from the order: the fossil fuel and agriculture industries.
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SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 29, 2015
National #BoycottIndiana Movement Drives Officials to Backpedal on Anti-LGBTQ Law Indiana lawmakers are scrambling to backpedal as a fierce backlash has taken hold against Republican Governor Mike Pence since he signed into law legislation that effectively permits discrimination against people thought to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
Women Walk for Peace, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 10, 2015
International Peacemakers Announce Women's Walk for Peace and Reunification of Korea During the 59th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting, leading global women peacemakers will announce plans for a women's peace walk calling for an end to the Korean War, which is technically unresolved without a peace treaty. Gloria Steinem, Abigail Disney, Ann Wright, Suzy Kim, Keum-ok Kim, Hyun-Kyung Chung and Christine Ahn will speak.
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 14, 2015
Rachel Corrie's Family Denied Justice From Israel's Highest Court Corrie's family first filed a wrongful death civil suit in 2005. In 2012, Judge Oded Gershon of the Haifa district court sided with the military and charged that Corrie was responsible for her own death. "She did not move away as any reasonable person would have done," ruled Gershon. "But she chose to endanger herself."
Sen. Bernie Sanders, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 1, 2015
Sanders' Focus Not Clinton, But Whether 2016 Run Could Mobilize the Masses Though he was reluctant to be specific in his critique of the former Secretary of State's record and admitted he "may be surprised" by Clinton's ability to tap into the populist angst in the country, when asked by the Post about what he's heard from Clinton regarding economic inequality and related issues, Sanders responded with, "Not much."
Noam Chomsky speaking in May, 2014., From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 19, 2015
Noam Chomsky: Obama's Drone Program "The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times" Offering proof of what he describes as western hypocrisy towards terrorism, Chomsky takes at aim at Obama's drone program, which he describes as "the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times." It "target[s] people suspected of perhaps intending to harm us some day, and any unfortunates who happen to be nearby," he writes.
Homeless flock to shelters amid deep freeze, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 11, 2015
Icy Cold and Cut Services Create Dangerous Perfect Storm for Homeless A report released in December by the U.S. Conference of Mayors showed that homelessness rates grew across the country in 2014, a trend driven by lack of affordable housing, widespread unemployment, chronic poverty, and a lack of needed services for those struggling with mental illness or substance abuse. There are now more homeless children in the U.S. than anytime in the nation's history.
Citizenfour director Laura Poitras, seen here at the 2010 PopTech conference in Camden, Maine, is among those being sued for her part in highlighting Edward Snowden's NSA revelations., From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 25, 2014
Citizenfour Producers Sued for "Aiding" Edward Snowden A retired naval officer and former government secretary is suing the producers of Citizenfour, the documentary chronicling NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's classified document release in 2013, for "profiteering" from the "theft and misuse" of government files.
Beef. Maybe it's not what's for dinner anymore., From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 4, 2014
To Avert Climate Chaos, Meat Consumption Must Drop: Study There is an "awareness gap" amongst the global public of the link between eating meat and climate change, and that presents a real obstacle to keeping global warming under the 2-degree threshold, a new study finds.
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SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 22, 2014
Senator: White House Simply Doesn't "Want Public to Know" Scope of CIA Torture Though the report has been completed for many months, the members of the Senate Intelligence committee have been fighting with the White House, which allowed CIA officials to review its findings, over the scope of redactions to the report's summary before it's made public.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Gaza Cut Off From All Sides As "Collective Punishment" Deepens Despite widespread calls for increased humanitarian aid and economic activity, the approximately 1.8 million people living in the Gaza Strip have been further isolated from the outside world following Israel's closure Sunday, and Egypt's closure last week, of border crossings into the Palestinian territory.
The National Rifle Association has spent roughly $17 million backing gun-friendly candidates in races around the country., From ImagesAttr
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 3, 2014
Washington Voters Stand Up to NRA ... And May Just Win On the eve of the 2014 midterm elections, voters in Washington state appear poised to make history -- despite spending by the nation's powerful gun lobby -- in passing by popular vote an initiative that will strengthen gun control measures across the state.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room with journalist Glenn Greenwald in a scene from Laura Poitras' new documentary film Citizenfour, which opens in theaters across the U.S. on Friday., From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 25, 2014
Stranger Than Fiction: "Citizenfour" Is a Dire Parable of Whistle-Blowers and Government Spying It is a testament to our unique digital age that not only has the government found it easy to sweep up as much information as possible, but that people have found swift ways to undermine that power through whistle-blowing actions such as Snowden's and through rapid-fire journalism based on those revelations by Greenwald and his colleagues.
James Risen speaking with MSNBC's Steve Kornacki on Sunday., From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Journalist Risen: "Mercenary Class": Now Permanent Fixture in National Security State According to New York Times journalist James Risen, the American people should ask themselves if what they really want is a "mercenary class that feeds off unending war and makes sure that the United States never stops finding new threats to go after."
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Correction: US Did Find Chemical Weapons in Iraq... The Ones They Sent There New reporting by the New York Times reveals the only chemical weapons found in Iraq were "designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies." And because they didn't fit the pre-invasion narrative, it was all kept quiet.
Filmmaker Laura Poitras, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 12, 2014
Snowden Documentary Confirms Existence of New National Security Whistleblower In his review of the film, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation Trevor Timm places the existence of a second leaker in the context of Snowden himself as he describes the possible interplay between how the actions of one whistleblower may ultimately lead to motivating others to follow suit.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Edward Snowden Awarded "Alternative Nobel" for Revealing Vast Surveillance The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which stated that it will fund legal support for Snowden, said his honorary award recognizes "his courage and skill in revealing the unprecedented extent of state surveillance violating basic democratic processes and constitutional rights."

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