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A FORMER Guantanamo Bay guard has spoken for the first time about what he claims was a CIA murder of detainees, covered up as a triple suicide. Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman was on guard at [...]

The Intercept he Justice Department on Wednesday issued a press release trumpeting its latest success in disrupting a domestic terrorism plot, announcing that “the Joint Terrorism Task Force has [...]

USA Today The Supreme Court agreed Friday to resolve the national debate over same-sex marriage once and for all. The justices will consider four cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and [...]

USA Today #BlackLivesMatter was a hashtag that originated following the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American shot in Florida. Tragically, given the two separate [...]

Digital Journal A 2010 email released by Wikileaks from a top-level CIA contractor asserts that CIA Director John Brennan, the subject of a story by now deceased journalist Michael Hastings, was [...]

This article was first written in 2011 by currently imprisoned journalist Barrett Brown. It offers a view into surveillance programs and operations that were being used in the pre-Snowden era. [...]

What lessons can be learned from the situation in Mexico? Is the current paradigm of community defense the best model?  VICE Hipólito Mora, founder of the first autodefensa civilian militia in [...]

This article was originally posted on Shareable.net. One chilly morning last winter, I reconnected with an old friend, Joel Dietz, on a video chat. We hadn’t seen each other for years, and we’d [...]

The Verge If you want to release something no one will pay attention to, what time’s better than Christmas Eve? At least, that appeared to be the National Security Agency’s thinking. [...]

Guardian 1 The West Antarctic ice sheet enters irreversible decline 13 January In January and May we heard news of the “irreversible decline” of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Stark headlines [...]