All News Articles for 2013-06-21
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Matt Taibbi Reveals Financial Crisis Smoking Gun Ratings agencies sold good ratings for cash Read more |
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'Worse than NSA': UK Spy Agency Amasses 'World's Communication' New Guardian exclusive reveals secret database of phone and internet records that dwarfs previous revelations Read more |
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How Being Disabled Means Your Boss can Suppress Your Wages An outdated law is allowing employers to pay disabled workers far below minimum wage Read more |
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Slams Surveillance State, Hails NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Wozniak: "All these things I thought about the Constitution that made us so good as people -- they're kinda nothing. They all disolved with the Patriot Act." Read more |
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Obama's 'Insider Threat' Program a 'Sweeping' Crackdown on Leakers McClatchy: 'Leaks to the media are equated with espionage' Read more |
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Sketchy Evidence, Zero Transparency Cloud Chemical Weapons Claims in Syria Security analyst: "This is an immensely political process, and there is no way of challenging the findings.” Read more |
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Report: Skype Developed Program to Abet Gov’t Spying; Ex-Facebook Exec at NSA New details have emerged on ties between U.S. intelligence and the nation’s largest technology firms. Read more |
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5,000 Missing in India Floods: Scientists Say Global Warming is to Blame As floods and landslides slam the Indian state of Uttarakhand, where 5,000 are missing and 600 are confirmed dead, scientists warn that India is seeing the effects of a global warming crisis that will only worsen as greenhouse g Read more |
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The FBI’s License to Kill: Agents Have Been Deemed "Justified" in Every Shooting Since 1993 Read more |
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Doctors to Obama: Heed Call of Hunger Striking Gitmo Prisoners Over 150 medical professionals urge Obama to respond to letter by hunger striking detainees Read more |
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Millions of Brazilians in the Streets: 'It's More Than Just 20 Cents' Largely peaceful demonstrations met aggressive police backlash in demonstrations across the country Read more |