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VIDEO: Fear, Inc. 2.0: As Anti-Muslim Incidents Continue, Report Exposes Funders, Pundits Of Islamophobia

A new report exposes the people who fund and stoke anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States.

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As a federal inquiry begins in the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina and an Islamic center in Houston, Texas, was intentionally set on fire Friday, we look at a new report that exposes the people who fund and stoke anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. The investigation by the Center for American Progress is called "Fear,

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VIDEO: Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says “I Would Do It All Again” to Expose Torture

John Kiriakou, a retired CIA agent who has just been released from prison after blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush administration’s torture program, says he was jailed because of the torture debate, and he’d go through it all again to expose torture.

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Former CIA officer John C. Kiriakou was indicted Thursday for allegedly leaking classified secrets to journalists concerning interrogation techniques and covert missions. (Photo: Troy Page / t r u t h o u t)

In a broadcast exclusive interview, we spend the hour with John Kiriakou, a retired CIA agent who has just been released from prison after blowing the whistle on the George W. Bush administration’s torture program. In 2007, Kiriakou became the first CIA official to publicly confirm and detail the agency’s use of waterboarding. In January 2013, he

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VIDEO: Attack On Canadian Parliament Fuels “Anti-Terror” Laws, Ignoring Ties To Mental Illness, Drug Abuse

As Canada mourns the death of a soldier gunned down while standing guard at the National War Monument in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing new antiterrorism legislation that would expand surveillance and intelligence sharing with foreign governments.

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Reports: n the days since the shooting, the gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, has been identified as a convert to Islam with a history of drug abuse, criminal activity and mental illness. The incident came two days after another violent attack on Canadian troops in Quebec. Martin Couture-Rouleau, also identified as a "radicalized" Muslim convert,

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