Civil Liberties

Turkish Unions Hold National Strike as Protesters Face Worst Crackdown to Date

By Amy Goodman, Cigdem Özturk / Democracy Now!

On Sunday, around 400 people were arrested as police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets in the streets of Istanbul, Ankara and other cities.

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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects GOP Voter Supression Tactic

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

White Suburban Soccer Moms Love NSA Surveillance

By Falguni A. Sheth / Salon

Obama and His Allies Say the Govt Doesn't Listen to Your Phone Calls -- But the FBI Begs to Differ

By Max Blumenthal / AlterNet

America the Brave New World: The United States Is Realizing the Dystopian Nightmares of Our Best Science Fiction

By Andrew O'Hehir / Salon

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Civil Liberties

5 Ways the Global Security State Can't Stop Itself from Abusing Our Privacy and Destroying People's Lives

Tom Engelhardt / Tom Dispatch

Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, not Edward Snowden

Pratap Chatterjee / The Guardian

Did Hollywood Help Make NSA Surveillance Permissible?

John Patterson / The Guardian

The Dangers of Corporations Controlling National Secrets

Thom Hartmann / AlterNet

Major Push to End Sexual Assault Epidemic in Military Turned Back in Senate

Adele M. Stan / RH Reality Check

Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

The NSA and Pentagon Dream of Total Information Awareness

Pepe Escobar / Asia Times

AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on NSA Surveillance

Tom Tomorrow / AlterNet

Unprecedented Coalition Pushes Back on Government’s Domestic Spying

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Edward Snowden: How the Intelligence Story of the Age Leaked Out

Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian

Texas Students Thrown in Jail for Days ... as Punishment for Missing School?

Joaquin Sapien / ProPublica

Attorney Wants to Use NSA Phone Records For Accused Bank Robber's Defense

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Supreme Court Says Human Genes Cannot Be Patented, Striking Down Breast and Ovarian Cancer Gene Patents

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Police Trained to Treat Keystone XL Protesters as 'Terrorists' (View TransCanada's PowerPoints)

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Watch: John Oliver Rails on Media for Trivial Snowden Coverage

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10 Dumbest Pundit Reactions to NSA Revelations

Evan McMurry / AlterNet

New Film 'Dirty Wars' Exposes America's Ruthless, Covert Wars

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security

Thom Hartmann / AlterNet

Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America

Daniel Ellsberg / The Guardian

What Happens to Snowden Now? 5 Government Whistleblowers Under Attack From Obama

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Meet the Whistleblower Responsible for the Massive NSA Leak

Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras / The Guardian

How U.S. Law Pre-Convicts and Pre-Punishes American Muslims

Victoria Brittain / Tom Dispatch

Supermarkets Amass a Mountain of Data on You, and They Plan to Exploit It

Donna Ferguson / The Guardian

Watch: 11-Year-Old Tells Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst to Drop Anti-Gay Honoree

Katie McDonough / Salon.com

"We Steal Secrets:" Why The New Movie About WikiLeaks Pisses WikiLeaks Off

Danny Schechter / MediaChannel.org

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