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Citing Discrimination, Judge Strikes Down Latest Texas Voter ID Law

A Federal Judge ruled that Senate Bill 5 doesn’t absolve Texas lawmakers from responsibility for discriminating against Latino and black voters when they crafted one of the nation’s strictest voter ID laws in 2011.

Jim Malewitz
Por Jim Malewitz
An election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)

A federal judge has tossed out a new law softening Texas’ strict voter identification requirements. U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos on Wednesday ruled that Senate Bill 5, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in June, doesn’t absolve Texas lawmakers from responsibility for discriminating against Latino and black voters when they crafted one of the

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White Nationalist Christopher Cantwell Arrested For Using Explosives

Notorious neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell is charged with two felony counts of illegal use of explosives as well as illegal use of gases and injury by a caustic agent.

Jeremiah Jones
Por Jeremiah Jones
Christopher Cantwell attends a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. (Vice News via AP)

Albermarle County police department confirmed Chris Cantwell was arrested just before 2 am Monday morning at a bus stop near the town of Esmont. He is charged with two felony counts of illegal use of explosives as well as illegal use of gases and injury by a caustic agent. AMS reported on the interesting chain of events that led the famous

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Your Up-To-Date Guide To Avoiding Internet Censorship & Getting Real Watchdog Journalism

There are lots of good strategies for beating both corporate and government Internet censors and snoops. These range from alternatives to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — to direct subscriptions to authors and pubs — to setting up your own VPN. All are worth the effort.

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
Poland | Facebook | Protest

While Google’s Information Age dominance has long been recognized to have some unsavory consequences, the massive technology corporation has, in recent months, taken to directly censoring content and traffic to a variety of independent media outlets across the political spectrum -- essentially muting the voices of any site or author who does not

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Diario de guerra de Siria: Cómo es la vida bajo la regla rebelde 'moderada'

Desde la liberación de Alepo, y la restauración de la paz a Madaya y al-Waer, la mayoría de los medios occidentales han guardado silencio en las áreas, a pesar de que ahora es posible visitarlos a todos y escuchar a los civiles que vivían bajo el gobierno de " rebeldes moderados ", que es exactamente lo que hizo la periodista Eva Bartlett.

Eva Bartlett
Por Eva Bartlett
A young boy rides his bike through the destruction of the once Jalloum neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria after it was liberated from Syrian rebels, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

SYRIA -- (War Diary) -- In early 2016 the hillside town of Madaya, just northwest of Damascus, was the focus of sudden Western and Gulf media campaigns featuring harrowing photos of emaciated elderly and children splashed widely across print, online and social media. Throughout 2016, these stories continued in Madaya, as well as in al-Waer, Homs,

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As Syria Nears Victory Against Rebels, Israel Begins To Panic

Meddling by the U.S. and its allies was supposed to topple the Assad regime in Syria and give Israel a freer hand, but instead has brought Iran and other adversaries to Israel’s border, a risky moment.

Daniel Lazare
Por Daniel Lazare
An Israeli soldier directs a tank near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Nov. 28, 2016. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

There’s a rumor going around that the Syrian civil war is finally winding down and that the Baathist government is nearing its goal of driving out thousands of ISIS-Al Qaeda head-choppers financed and supplied – directly or indirectly – by the U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the other Persian Gulf oil monarchies It would be good news if

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En medio de la crisis de los opioides, Trump envía tropas para proteger a las amapolas en Afganistán

No hay manera de desacoplar el aumento masivo en la producción de opio en Afganistán de la creciente crisis del uso de opioides en los Estados Unidos. Al desterrar todo pensamiento de un "final de juego" afgano, ¿Trump acaba de convertir nuestra "emergencia nacional" de abuso de opioides en una permanente?

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
MARJAH, Helmand province, Afghanistan - Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a poppy field during a clearing mission April 9. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)

With last Friday’s departure of his chief strategist Steve Bannon – one of the few members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle opposed to American “empire building” -- many speculated it was only a matter of time before the Trump administration took an even more hawkish turn. Less than two days later, Secretary of Defense James Mattis

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