Can this be real? There is no punishment for police who shoot dead a nearly 70 year-old man in his own home, after his own medical alert device sent the alarm to police that brought them to his door? DemocracyNow! describes what happened to 68 year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, who was killed by police in White Plains, NY back in November.
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Back on November 3, 2010, political activist and computer engineer David House ended his vacation with his girlfriend in Mexico, where they had been fishing and relaxing. House worked for MIT at the time, but he had a brief layover in Chicago before his flight back to Boston.
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Ecological rights activist Tim DeChristopher, who is serving two years in federal prison for bidding in a land sale auction for land he never intended to pay for, has reportedly been moved to solitary confinement at the request of an unnamed Congressperson.
It's finally happened. After scores of FBI entrapment cases in which the organization set up young Muslim men to do illegal things and then slammed them with long prison terms when they complied, it has finally happened: someone said 'no.'
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The FBI and the Department of Defense are getting close to opening their giant biometrics center, where biometric data about people as diverse as Afghan villagers, Iraqi businessmen, Pakistani farmers, immigrants to the United States, and
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Rifling through the hundreds of heavily redacted pages DHS released to the Partnership for Civil Justice and Truthout, I stumbled upon this gem:
