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PRISM Scandal: Google Challenges Secret Surveillance Gag Order

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Afghanistan Backs Out Of Talks With Taliban, US

The U.S. and Taliban announced Tuesday they would begin preliminary peace talks in Qatar without the Afghan government.

Associated Press
作者 Associated Press
Hamid Karzai

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president said Wednesday he will not pursue peace talks with the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations, while also insisting the militant group stop its violent attacks on the ground after it claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that killed four Americans. Hamid Karzai's strong

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Civil Rights Groups Challenge NYPD’s Secret Surveillance Of Muslims

The lawsuit asks a judge to order the nation’s largest police department to stop their surveillance and destroy any related records.

Associated Press
作者 Associated Press

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, religious leaders and civil rights advocates said Tuesday after the filing of a federal lawsuit. "Our mosque should be an open, religious and spiritual sanctuary, but

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Supreme Court: Big Pharma’s Paying To Delay Generic Drugs Can Be Challenged In Courts

Drug companies had hoped the court to would immunize their agreements, which keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market.

Associated Press
作者 Associated Press
Prescription drugs line a cabinet in this March 25, 2011 photo. (Photo by Eric Hunsaker via Flikr)

WASHINGTON — Deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors, which government officials say keep cheaper forms of medicine off the market, can sometimes be illegal and therefore can be challenged in court, the Supreme Court said Monday. The justices voted 5-3 to allow the government to inspect and challenge what it

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Are ‘Standing Man’ Silent Protests The Future Of Nonviolent Resistance?

‘Standing man’ protests are going viral across Turkey in a silent show of resistance amidst government raids on the country’s expanding uprisings.

Sarah Lazare
作者 Sarah Lazare

'Standing man' protests are going viral across Turkey in a silent show of resistance amidst violent government raids on the country's expanding uprisings. It started with one man who stood silently in Turkey's embattled Taksim Square Monday, facing the Ataturk Cultural Center which is cloaked in Turkish flags and images of Kemal

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US Mulls Its Options As Syria Conflict Threatens To Escalate Into Proxy War

It’s still unclear what the plan is after Obama announced that the U.S. will arm certain Syrian rebels fighting the Russia-backed Assad government.

Dale Gavlak
作者 Dale Gavlak

AMMAN, Jordan -- President Barack Obama’s decision to arm Syrian rebels will deepen U.S. involvement in a regional proxy war increasingly taking on sectarian overtones of pitting Sunni Muslims against Shiite Muslims. “From now on, every suicide bombing in Damascus -- every war crime committed by the rebels -- will be regarded in the region as

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Pathology, Inc. — The Corporation As Sociopath

If there’s such thing as “corporate personhood,” then why do corporations only seem to behave like the very worst of people?

Edward Rhymes
作者 Edward Rhymes
DEXTER

When the fascination with the Showtime's series "Dexter" – about the serial-killing medical examiner – was on the rise, I remembered a documentary called The Corporation, which was released about 10 years ago. In it, the filmmakers postulate that since the law recognizes corporate “personhood,” certain corporations can (or ought to) be given the

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