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NYC Suspends Massive 911 System Overhaul to Probe Lengthy Delays, $1 Billion Over Budget; Lavabit Founder: Gov’t “Bold-Faced Lies” & Mass Surveillance Effort Forced Me to Shut Down My Company; Missouri Death Row Prisoner Wins Stay in Case Challenging Secrecy, Undue Suffering in US Executions; Brazil’s Dance With the Devil: Dave Zirin on the People’s … Continued
The Guantánamo “Suicides” Revisited: Did CIA Hide Deaths of Tortured Prisoners at Secret Site? Facing Senate Uproar, Obama Admin to Release Memo Justifying Drone Killings of Americans Overseas; Koch Brothers Exposed: The Chilling New Documentary Republicans Don’t Want You to See; Behind the Koch Brothers: New Book Spills the Secrets of Nation’s Most Powerful & … Continued
Sen. Al Franken: Media Mega-Mergers and FCC Rollback of Net Neutrality Threaten Democracy; Too Big To Jail? Credit Suisse Bank Pleads Guilty to Decades of Tax Evasion, But Execs Avoid Prison; As Another Major Bank Avoids Jail, Occupy Wall Street Protester Cecily McMillan Gets 3-Month Term; Snowden Docs Reveal NSA, DEA Teamed Up to Record … Continued
“The Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of”: Remembering William Worthy (1921-2014). HeadlinesMay 19, 2014 Dozens Killed, Thousands Displaced in Record Balkans Flooding Renegade Forces Launch Attacks in 2 Libyan Cities West African Countries Declare “War” on Boko Haram Funerals Held for Slain Palestinian Nakba Demonstrators California Gov. Expects “Worst” Ever Drought Following Wildfires … Continued
Debate: As FCC Votes on Internet’s Future, What’s the Best Way to Protect Net Neutrality? “We Have to Stop This Inequality”: Fast-Food Worker Strike Spreads to Dozens of Cities; Walmart & Contractor Settle $21M Wage Theft Suit, Days After Obama Praises Penny-Pinching Retailer. HeadlinesMay 15, 2014 Nigeria Rules Out Boko Haram Prisoner Swap U.S. … Continued
“Right Out of a Spy Movie”: Glenn Greenwald on First Secret Meeting with NSA Leaker Edward Snowden;Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media is “Neutered, Impotent and Obsolete.” HeadlinesMay 14, 2014 Nigeria Opens Door to Talks with Boko Haram on Kidnapped Girls Over 200 Killed in Turkish Mining Blast U.N. Envoy for Syria Resigns After 2 … Continued
“Collect It All”: Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on U.N.; “The Stuff I Saw Really Began to Disturb Me”: How the U.S. Drone War Pushed Snowden to Leak NSA Docs. HeadlinesMay 13, 2014 U.S. Flies Surveillance Planes over Nigeria to Search for Missing Girls Nigeria Rejects Prisoner Swap … Continued
After Chaotic Autonomy Votes, Negotiations Could Be Sole Path to Prevent Ukraine’s Disintegration; Did CIA’s Fake Polio Vaccination Program in Pakistan Help Fuel a Global Health Emergency?With First Images Since Kidnapping, Boko Haram Offers to Swap Nigerian Schoolgirls for Prisoners. HeadlinesMay 12, 2014 Boko Haram Offers Prisoner Swap for Kidnapped Girls Nigerian President: Girls … Continued
Marijuana Refugees: Virginia Family Moves to Colorado to Treat Epileptic Child with Cannabis Oil; As Marijuana Refugees Flock to Colorado, Will Medical Community Force Rewriting of U.S. Drug Laws? HeadlinesMay 9, 2014 U.N., Amnesty Find Mass Atrocities in South Sudan U.S. Officials Arrive in Nigeria to Aid Search for Kidnapped Girls Witnesses: Ethiopian Forces … Continued
