Professor Sahar Aziz on the FBI’s “preventative paradigm”

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Rule of law remix

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Consider the following:

What on earth is going on in Minnesota?

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Police getting people high and then sending them to the occupy camp? We've heard similar allegations in other cities, including New York and Boston, but never has anyone documented the allegations as this video does, above.

Opaque and anti-democratic: the US drone war under the microscope

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Don't miss this fascinating conversation about the US drone wars in Yemen and Pakistan.

OPD snatch and grabs

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Here's more video of Oakland PD's snatch and grab tactics, deployed at the May Day general strike against Occupy Oakland demonstrators.

End the stupid, failed war on drugs

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The war on drugs is a major driver not only of the mass incarceration crisis, but also the surveillance industrial complex. The war on terror + the war on drugs = a war on our basic rights. 

FISA and beyond – away with all warrants!

Associated Press reported that the Justice Department submitted 1,745 requests to a “secret court” in order to wiretap or conduct physical searches in “terrorism and espionage investigations” in 2011.

Target is really, really into surveillance

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Target corporation was the first to join a DHS program meant to bring corporations to the table for national security and disaster related discussions. In the video above, two Target executives sit at the table with FEMA for an event kicking off their collaboration.

OWS activist targeted by NYPD intelligence division

OWS activist Shawn Carrié posted following tweets in the early hours of May 4, 2012.

Targeted killings: bureaucratized, secret death from above

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The DoD and CIA have secret kill lists, but you can't find out if you are on one. And if you are, you can't get off it. It's a "death sentence without due process."