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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 [...]

Guardian We may have hacked Sony back in the day, but we are still a social justice movement, from economic inequality to police brutality. Hacktivism is still the future Here in prison, I am [...]

The Intercept Six days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, President George W. Bush issued a directive allowing the CIA to secretly detain and interrogate prisoners at clandestine sites [...]

On December 11 the Houston Free Thinkers and the ACLU of Houston presented a teach in on cell phone surveillance in Houston.

KPRC 2 Houston has reported that the Harris County District Attorney’s Office will be purchasing body cameras for police officers with the Houston Police Department and the Harris County [...]

KPRC A Houston police officer is will reappear before a grand jury Tuesday for the killing of an unarmed black man in January. The jury met on Dec. 11 but did not come to a decision. Jordan Baker [...]

HOUSTON (KTRK) — One of many things to come out of the national debate over what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, is a new and critical look at the grand jury system. Riots and protest [...]