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Archives for October 2013

Obama Scrapes Bottom Of The Political Barrel In Search Of NSA Surveillance Support

As a bona fide scandal over NSA phone-tapping erupts in Europe, international support for the president is dwindling.

Jo Erickson
By Jo Erickson

In a week when international diplomacy was rocked by reports of new levels of dirty tricks by the U.S. administration and the NSA’s spying program, President Obama is receiving unexpected help from the most unlikely of allies. On Sunday, the U.S. administration was called out and forced to defend the NSA’s full-scale, international Cold War-style

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Is Facebook Working With Law Enforcement To Thwart Protests?

Law enforcement officials hint that police departments work with social media websites in the context of “mass gatherings.”

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

During a conference in Philadelphia last week, law enforcement officials held a panel to discuss the ever-strengthening relationship between law enforcement and social media websites. As independent journalist Kenneth Lipp reported, officials attending the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference also mentioned they had partnered

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No Law In North Dakota Says Oil Spills Have To Be Made Public

The director of its Mineral Resources department doesn’t think there should be, either.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

A September oil pipeline spill is calling into question North Dakota’s lack of disclosure laws, which have allowed nearly 300 spills in the last few years to go unreported in the burgeoning oil state. In 2012 and 2013, roughly 300 pipeline spills in the state went unreported, according to an Associated Press report that also uncovered roughly 750

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Why Does The Marriage Rate Matter?

Those who can’t afford marriage are missing the economic benefits of tying the knot.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Once upon a time, marriage was an expectation. Those who did not “take the plunge” were looked at with suspicion, gossiped about and speculated on from behind closed doors. Today, however, the expectation has faded away. Increasingly, a larger percentage of Americans have opted to either wait to get married or to avoid the ceremony

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Lock Them Up Longer, Sell Their Stuff: How To Curb Child Pornography

To stop a 2,026% increase in child pornography cases, we need to get tough on the exploiters.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

In Attleboro, Mass. last month, a 51-year-old manager of a sober house admitted to having hundreds of CDs and DVDs containing child pornagraphy — amassing to possibly the single-largest seizure of of the illicit material in the city’s police history. The man, Michael Paterson, was found to have images of nude boys as young as six-year-old on his

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Amnesty International: US Drone Strikes May Amount To War Crimes

According to the report, the U.S. launched up to 374 drone strikes in Pakistan from 2004 to 2013.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

A new Amnesty International report alleges that U.S. drone strikes could be responsible for up to 900 civilian deaths in Pakistan -- and the organization is calling on the U.S. to address what it refers to as a series of human rights abuses that could amount to war crimes. The report, “Will I be Next?”, profiles the lives of civilians living in

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