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NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
By Glenn Greenwald
From the British newspaper The Guardian
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of…
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Student loan debt is a beast
By Erika Eichelberger, Maggie Severns and Brett Brownell
From Mother Jones
If you're one of the 37 million Americans with student loan debt, you're in for a real treat come July 1.…
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Tea party queen quits
By Bill Press
Say it ain't so. There has never been a sadder day in American politics.
Political reporters are still in shock over Michele Bachmann's sudden announcement that she…
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Hunger USA
By Max J. Castro
MIAMI - Today’s reactionary Republican Party isn’t given to literary flights of fancy. But its latest assault on the tattered remains of the always…
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Fear itself – after 80 years
By Saul Landau
My parents, like many millions more who voted for Franklin Roosevelt and ousted Republican Herbert Hoover, sat glued to their radios to hear FDR’s first…
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Permanent war for the empire
By Saul Landau
This country has officially taken on the rest of the world. As U.S. military units fight, or threaten to fight, alleged foes belonging to jihadist groups most…
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The cult of violence in the United States
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Last April, while the bodies of 20 children and 8 adults massacred in Newton, Conn., were still warm, the U.S. Senate voted against establishing a…
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Security
By David Brooks
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
NEW YORK – The CIA has become a "paramilitary service" where more than half of the agents recruited after 2001 are…
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Holder needs a vacation
By Bill Press
One of many good things you can say about President Obama is that he is loyal to his friends. But sometimes, he is loyal to a fault, as is the case with Attorney…
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Gross suit against U.S. dismissed
By Jessica Gresko
From The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an American imprisoned in Cuba against the U.S. government,…
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