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‘This is the Story Of Power In This Country': Ferguson, Institutionalized...
Police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. Last week, after...
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‘Unbalanced Recovery': Wages Falling, Low-Paid Jobs Rising Across US
People line up at the food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) While wages have declined across all sectors in the...
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Snowden Documents Reveal NSA’s ‘Own Secret Google’
Illustration by Anders Nienstaedt for MintPress News. The National Security Agency has for years been giving hundreds of billions of telecommunications records about foreigners and U.S. citizens to...
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Activists Sound Alarm As More Police Departments Consider Using Drones
Members of the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team fly their search and rescue drone during a demonstration, in Brigham City, Utah. (AP Photo) Police departments in the U.S. are...
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Ferguson Protesters File Lawsuit Against Police for Civil Rights Violations
Protestors confront police during an impromptu rally, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 to protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Police said Brown, who was...
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Nation’s Poor Remain Hungry As Wall Street Feasts
(AP Photo/J Pat Carter) Critics and anti-poverty advocates are questioning the so-called economic recovery as a USDA study (PDF) published Wednesday revealed that while the nation’s wealthiest enjoyed...
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Bush-Era Dragnet Memos Show ‘Virtually Unlimited’ Presidential Power
(AP/Jack Plunkett) The Justice Department on Friday released two legal memos written during the Bush administration justifying the National Security Agency surveillance program that spied on American...
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US Fight Against ISIS May Last Years, Officials Say
Fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) parade in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo) The U.S. government is preparing a campaign against the Islamic...
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VIDEO: Big Brother 3.0: FBI Launches Facial Recognition Program
The FBI’s facial recognition system stores criminal mugshots and citizen ID photos in the same database. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Monday that its facial recognition software,...
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New Questions Raised About NSA-Israel Intelligence Sharing
President Barack Obama exchanges words with AIPAC president Lee Rosenberg after addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual Policy Conference in Washington Sunday, March...
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Lego Ends Shell Contract After Greenpeace ‘Save The Arctic’ Campaign
Lego announced on Thursday that it would not be renewing its marketing contract with Shell, after Greenpeace campaigned for several months for the Danish toy maker to end its decades-long partnership...
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‘Fight Back': Protesters Stage ‘Moral Monday’ Civil Disobedience Actions In...
Protesters, including clergy, launched a new series of civil disobedience action in Ferguson on Monday. (Photo: Shadi Rahimi/Twitter) As hundreds of protesters marched to the steps of the Ferguson...
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‘White On Pumpkin Crime': Mainstream Riot Coverage From Ferguson, Missouri To...
Keene, New Hampshire’s annual pumpkin festival turned riotous this weekend. (Photo: Twitter) “These are no angels,” Twitter user Isaiah A. Taylor said of the photograph that showed six young white men...
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Greenwald: Harper Government Exploiting Recent Attacks To Expand Powers
The Canadian government is exploiting last week’s attacks against soldiers in the country to push sweeping national security bills into law and give the state ever-more invasive surveillance powers,...
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Police Using Controversial Patriot Act Authority For ‘Everyday’ Cases: Civil...
A contentious surveillance provision of the Patriot Act, which allows law enforcement to conduct searches while delaying informing the suspect, is broadly used, but almost never in terrorism...
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Trend Towards Ending Marijuana Prohibition Continues As Legalization Wins Big
Employees trim retail marijuana at 3D Cannabis Center (AP/Brennan Linsley) Voters in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. approved marijuana legislation on Tuesday night, legalizing the sale,...
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Net Neutrality Coalition Launches To Lead Global Fight For Open Internet And...
As a movement crystallizes around the future of the Internet, more than 35 human rights and technology organizations from 19 countries have come together as a new coalition to define and protect the...
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VIDEO: Low-Wage Workers Retake National Stage in ‘Fight for 15′
Thousands of workers in several different low-pay industries—including fast food, airlines, and health care—staged protests throughout the country on Thursday to demand a $15 an hour minimum wage,...
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California Drought Worst in 1,200 Years: Study
In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, a visitor to Folsom Lake, Calif., walks his dog down a boat ramp that is now several hundred yards away from the waters’ edge. Gov. Jerry Brown formally proclaimed...
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NSA Spied On Americans For Over A Decade: Report
A 2012 photo inside the NSA security operations center (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) The National Security Agency quietly released a heavily redacted report late Wednesday night showing that its mass...
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