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The judge's cited source, the 9/11 Commission Report, doesn't actually include the account he gives in the ruling. What’s more, experts say the NSA could have avoided the pre-9/11 failure even without the metadata surveillance program.

Operation Condor was a coordinated effort by dictatorships in Latin American countries, to track down and kill political opponents in their various countries—an effort that was deliberately aided, particularly during the mid-to-late ‘70s, by the CIA.

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There are many steps that we can take to end that state of affairs, but the most important is to put jobs back on the agenda.

A criminal government at work!

Anti-base protester: 'Okinawa residents cannot tolerate the base relocation within the prefecture.

The Obama Administration has produced vast expansion of deportations reaching 409,000 last year, with over 2 million deported since this president assumed office. Increased enforcement has been justified as a device to encourage legislative reform of the immigration system, but it has only increased the deportations and the divisions of families.

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To single out Turing is to say all the other persecuted gay men are not so deserving of justice because they were less exceptional

In these times of widespread violence perpetrated by men, we may learn from Mandela's model of masculinity.