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All News Articles for 2015-05-08

Friday, May 8, 2015
	'Just Don't Do It,' Say Protesters, As Obama Champions TPP at Nike Headquarters President's corporate appearance part of push to Fast Track secret 'free trade' deal Read more
	Revealed: NSA Labeled Al Jazeera Journalist a Member of Al Qaeda Al Jazeera Islamabad bureau chief Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan put on watch list after years of reporting on terror groups Read more
	Former Obama Campaign Manager Led Austerity-Loving Tories to Victory After bringing American-style negative campaigning to the UK, Jim Messina says he's coming home to throw his weight behind Hillary Clinton Read more
	After NSA Ruling, Congress at Odds Over Mass Surveillance Federal court ruled on Thursday that NSA mass surveillance program, which government justified through Patriot Act provisions, is illegal Read more
	DOJ to Investigate Pattern of Racist Policing in Baltimore Though welcomed, rights advocates question whether prosecutions or probes will have meaningful impact on systemic discrimination in Baltimore and other U.S. cities Read more
	Patriotism at a Price: US Military Paid NFL Teams to 'Honor' Soldiers at Games New York Jets received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of years to salute 'hometown heroes' Read more
	Faith-Based Organizations Warn of Impending Nuclear Disaster As the month-long review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) continued into its second week, a coalition of some 50 faith-based organizations (FBOs), anti-nuclear peace activists and civil society organizations (CSOs) was assigned an unenviable task: a brief three-minute... Read more
	In Surprise Lurch to the Right, David Cameron Takes UK Election Scottish Nationalist Party makes surprising gains Read more