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Rare Agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan All Endorse Retraining For Jobless—But Are They Right?

In February 2008, six days before he would win the Wisconsin presidential primary, Barack Obama traveled to a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., for a major economic address. Janesville is a community of 63,000 on a bend in the Rock River near the Illinois line, three-fourths of the way up Interstate 90 from Chicago […]

October 11th, 2012
Amy Goldstein
October 11th, 2012
By Amy Goldstein
Rare Agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan All Endorse Retraining For Jobless—But Are They Right?

In February 2008, six days before he would win the Wisconsin presidential primary, Barack Obama traveled to a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., for a major economic address. Janesville is a community of 63,000 on a bend in the Rock River near the Illinois line, three-fourths of the way up Interstate 90 from Chicago […]

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FAQ On US Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go — And Who Decides How It’s Spent?

By Marian Wang and Theodoric Meyer The regime change in Egypt — and in particular, the riots outside the American embassy last month — have prompted renewed questions about American aid to the country. (A recent poll found that 42 percent of Americans supported cutting aid to Egypt; 29 percent supported cutting it off altogether.) We’ve taken a step back and tried […]

October 10th, 2012
Marian Wang
October 10th, 2012
By Marian Wang
FAQ On US Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go — And Who Decides How It’s Spent?

By Marian Wang and Theodoric Meyer The regime change in Egypt — and in particular, the riots outside the American embassy last month — have prompted renewed questions about American aid to the country. (A recent poll found that 42 percent of Americans supported cutting aid to Egypt; 29 percent supported cutting it off altogether.) We’ve taken a step back and tried […]

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The Miscarriages Of Justice That Have Involved Prison Informants

A Bureau investigation reveals that some of the worst miscarriages of justice in history have arisen when prison informants give false testimony as a result of powerful incentives offered by the police and prosecution. The Bureau looked at all murder cases referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an independent […]

October 9th, 2012
Emma Slater
October 9th, 2012
By Emma Slater
The Miscarriages Of Justice That Have Involved Prison Informants

A Bureau investigation reveals that some of the worst miscarriages of justice in history have arisen when prison informants give false testimony as a result of powerful incentives offered by the police and prosecution. The Bureau looked at all murder cases referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), an independent […]

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Leaked Emails Warned G4S Over Iraq Murders

In the wake of the Olympic Games vetting scandal, private security company G4S may have hoped that its period on the public rack had come to an end. But G4S’s vetting, it appears, is fraught with failure abroad just as it is in East London – only with far deadlier consequences. Tonight on BBC Scotland, […]

October 3rd, 2012
Zlatina Georgieva
October 3rd, 2012
By Zlatina Georgieva
Leaked Emails Warned G4S Over Iraq Murders

In the wake of the Olympic Games vetting scandal, private security company G4S may have hoped that its period on the public rack had come to an end. But G4S’s vetting, it appears, is fraught with failure abroad just as it is in East London – only with far deadlier consequences. Tonight on BBC Scotland, […]

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Feds Use Of Warrantless Searches Up Over 600 Percent

(MintPress) – New reports are demonstrating the extent of which the federal government is relying on social networking websites to follow the accounts of users that show “suspicious” activity. And because there are few laws regulating the government’s use of the Internet as an investigative tool, a majority of the online surveillance against individuals is […]

October 1st, 2012
Joey LeMay
October 1st, 2012
By Joey LeMay
Feds Use Of Warrantless Searches Up Over 600 Percent

(MintPress) – New reports are demonstrating the extent of which the federal government is relying on social networking websites to follow the accounts of users that show “suspicious” activity. And because there are few laws regulating the government’s use of the Internet as an investigative tool, a majority of the online surveillance against individuals is […]

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A Growing Trend: UK Government Spends £2bn On Drones

The British government has spent over £2bn on drones since 2007, according to a new report. Shelling Out, by advocacy group Drone Wars UK, is the first complete assessment of UK government spending on unmanned aircraft. It is built on publicly available data that is buried among mountains of government documents. Drone Wars UK trawled through the […]

September 28th, 2012
Jack Serle
September 28th, 2012
By Jack Serle
A Growing Trend: UK Government Spends £2bn On Drones

The British government has spent over £2bn on drones since 2007, according to a new report. Shelling Out, by advocacy group Drone Wars UK, is the first complete assessment of UK government spending on unmanned aircraft. It is built on publicly available data that is buried among mountains of government documents. Drone Wars UK trawled through the […]

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The Pot Calling The Kettle Dependent: The Government’s Role In The Wealth Of The Wealthy

It’s almost like some Hank Williams Jr.-driven refrain from the Monday Football intro … “Are you ready for some class warfare?” Just like that, Mitt Romney’s comments about the government dependent 47 percent of this country that will vote for President Obama opens the door (once again) to a real debate and discussion about wealth, income […]

September 21st, 2012
Edward Rhymes
September 21st, 2012
By Edward Rhymes
The Pot Calling The Kettle Dependent: The Government’s Role In The Wealth Of The Wealthy

It’s almost like some Hank Williams Jr.-driven refrain from the Monday Football intro … “Are you ready for some class warfare?” Just like that, Mitt Romney’s comments about the government dependent 47 percent of this country that will vote for President Obama opens the door (once again) to a real debate and discussion about wealth, income […]

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