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ACLU: Chicago Police Monitoring Protest Groups ‘Unsettling’

The Sun-Times reports the department’s top attorney approved 2015 plans to send undercover officers to monitor meetings, including those held by Black Lives Matter activists, churches and philanthropic organizations.

Associated Press
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Two Chicago police officers take a man into custody during a protest march, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Chicago, the day after murder charges were brought against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

CHICAGO  — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says reports of Chicago police monitoring peaceful protest groups is "unsettling" and is calling for City Council hearings. The group issued a Sunday statement responding to a Chicago Sun-Times report (http://bit.ly/1qes8R0 ), which outlined seven investigations by police since 2009 to

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Hundreds Arrested At Democracy Spring Sit-In At US Capitol

Police announced they “ran out of space” for arrested activists, although they were peacefully gathered on the steps of the Capitol.

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Voting rights reform demonstrators stage a sit-in at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2016, urging lawmakers to take money out of the political process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Police forces arrested over 400 people Monday in Washington, D.C., as people were peacefully gathered in front of the Capitol to protest against the role of money in politics and to demand voting rights. At least 10 buses were used to transport the people in handcuffs, while the police announced they "ran out of space" for arrested activists,

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Trump Campaign On The Rocks As GOP Heads For A Brokered Convention

Until recently, multi-billionaire property tycoon Donald Trump seemed the certain favorite to scoop the Republican Party’s nomination for US President. But as July’s convention looms ever closer, Trump’s chances are beginning to look less and less certain.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens as he is introduced at Politics and Eggs in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Trump is still 494 delegates short of what he requires for automatic selection by the GOP, and a recent slew of bad press following the arrest of his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — for assaulting a female journalist — as well as inflammatory comments on abortion — suggesting that women who have abortions ought to be punished — has seemingly

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The Establishment Snarls A Warning To Bernie Sanders

Paul Krugman over the top.

Rick Sterling
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US economist Paul Krugman, shown here after his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, recently unleashed a no holds barred tirade against Bernie Sanders. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

When Republicans are in the White House, Paul Krugman and the New York Times sometimes sound pretty good. But when someone starts seriously and effectively challenging core assumptions and values of our political economic system, the progressive veneer quickly vanishes.  This is demonstrated in Paul Krugman’s verbal attack on the Bernie Sanders

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Terror Profits — Arms Makers Rejoice As American Bombs Drop Faster Than They Can Make Them

The United States is dropping bombs on people at such a furious rate, munitions manufacturers have been unable to keep up with demand.

Claire Bernish
بواسطة Claire Bernish
Lockheed

The United States is dropping bombs on people at such a furious rate, munitions manufacturers have been unable to keep up with demand. “We’re expending munitions faster than we can replenish them,” Gen. Mark Welsh said, according toan article in USA Today. With the U.S. military conducting bombing missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in

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Why New York Prison Guards Can Get Away With Almost Anything

Though the national conversation on mass incarceration and mistreatment in prisons has rightly focused on corrupt ties between lawmakers and the private prison lobby, the prison guard union in New York wields an impressive amount of power.

Carey Wedler
بواسطة Carey Wedler
Prison guards walk down a corridor in the Adjustment Center at at a US prison. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

New York prisons are increasingly notorious for their corruption, brutality, and incompetence. Last year, two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York. In 2014, a homeless veteran “baked to death” after being left in an overheated cell at Rikers Island. The state’s correctional department has been

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