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(1 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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."
(3 comments) SHARE 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."
(3 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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 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.
(4 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE 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."