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Here’s why close collaboration between NSA and AT&T matters
August 20, 2015New disclosures about the NSA's partnership with AT&T could reignite constitutional challenges to the spy agency's efforts to wiretap the Internet.
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Indigenous News: Youth sue U.S. government over climate change
August 20, 2015"This lawsuit is made necessary by the at-best schizophrenic, if not suicidal, nature of U.S. climate and energy policy."
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Today in history: LBJ’s “Great Society” is launched
August 20, 2015On this date in 1964, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Military families and top brass support Iran nuclear deal
August 19, 2015"It takes courage to deal with an adversarial country in a peaceful manner, and to instead focus on what joins us together than what tears us apart."
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Immigration: Trump trumps the truth
August 18, 2015Trump's purpose is demagogic, to toss red meat to the most extreme reactionary sections of the Republican Party base while spreading the poison of xenophobic racism around.
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