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NSA Critics Hopeful As ‘True Reform Bill’ Introduced To House And Senate

The bipartisan USA FREEDOM ACT takes aim at bulk phone data collection and international spying.

Common Dreams
Por Common Dreams
In this June 28, 2010, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Leahy on April 25, 2013, won passage in the Senate Judiciary Committee of a bill requiring the authorities get a warrant to read your e-mail and cloud-stored data. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

A bill introduced to both the Senate and the House on Tuesday aimed at curbing NSA spying powers was greeted with more hope than skepticism by a spectrum of critics eager for a meaningful overhaul of the secret surveillance dragnet. Penned by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr.

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Legal Marijuana Ad #1 In Super Bowl Contest… Until It Was Cut

The sponsor, which makes accounting software, has also revoked its services from a clinic that recommends medical marijuana.

Katie Rucke
Por Katie Rucke

The chance for a pro-marijuana legalization commercial to air for free during the 2014 Super Bowl has — for a lack of better words — burned out. On Monday, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the movement’s oldest and largest group, announced that they have not made it to the third round of a small business competition

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Racial Profiling Alive And Well In Recent ‘Shopping While Black’ Arrests

Stories of young black people getting detained for purchasing luxury items are getting more media attention. The unfounded arrests unfortunately have a long legacy.

Frederick Reese
Por Frederick Reese

Kayla Phillips is a 21-year-old nursing student from Brooklyn. After receiving her tax refund, she decided to treat herself to a $2,500 Celine handbag from Barneys New York — one of New York City’s premier retailers. Phillips planned to buy the orange bag for a long time, and when she received the refund, she felt the timing was right. Three

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Oakland ‘Urban Shield’ Protesters Report Police Harassment

Activists who organized a nonviolent bicycle ride against the international police convention describe a heavy-handed response.

Katie Rucke
Por Katie Rucke

To protest the seventh annual “Urban Shield” event -- which draws law enforcement agencies from across the globe to participate in war games and attend a weapons technology show -- peace and justice activists held a bike ride protest, until the Oakland Police Department intervened. Dubbed “Pedal Against the Pigs” by the ride’s organizers, the

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INTERVIEW: Mexican Priest Threatened For Helping Migrants

“I am a grain of sand in the government’s shoe: I make them uncomfortable … they have to cope with me, because the only other alternative would be to kill me.”

Magda Fahsi
Por Magda Fahsi

  Father Alejandro Solalinde Guerra is a Mexican Catholic priest. He was deeply touched by the conditions that thousands of Central American migrants face when they ride the train northward to the United States through Mexico, where they are often the victims of criminal gangs and police violence. The National Human Rights Committee of Mexico

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Senate NSA Hawk Shifts Tone As US Allies Tell Obama Off Over NSA Phone Tapping

After European fallout, Obama frantically takes heat as key NSA backer shifts her position.

Frederick Reese
Por Frederick Reese
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asks questions about the fate of prisoners at the Guantanamo Detention Center during a hearing by the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights & Human Rights, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The United States finds itself in unprecedented deep water recently in regards to its international diplomacy. Last week, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel suspects that the U.S. has been eavesdropping on her cell phone for years. If this is proven to be true, it would constitute a breach of trust so

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