Deirdre Fulton

Exposed: Big Brother’s ‘Unique and Productive’ Relationship with AT&T

“The NSA’s top-secret budget in 2013 for the AT&T partnership was more than twice that of the next-largest such program,” a New York Times and ProPublica investigation has revealed.

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By Deirdre Fulton

Newly disclosed National Security Agency documents show that the U.S. government's relationship with telecom giant AT&T has been considered "unique and especially productive," according to a joint investigation by the New York Times and ProPublica published Saturday. The news organizations, whose team of journalists included Laura Poitras

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New Report Warns NATO And Russia ‘War Games’ Are Not Games At All

The nature and scale of ongoing exercises suggest ‘Russia is preparing for a conflict with NATO, and NATO is preparing for confrontation with Russia.’

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By Deirdre Fulton
Portugal's soldiers attend an opening ceremony of military exercise 'Saber Strike

War games conducted by Russian and NATO forces go far beyond the hypothetical, raising the specter of a very real conflict on the European continent, a new study warns. According to the European Leadership Network (ELN), a think tank based in London, "[o]ver the last 18 months, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, the relationship between

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Advancing Bailout, Greece Approves ‘Terms of Surrender’ to Austerity

Banks set to re-open Monday as ECB head announces emergency credit and promotes debt relief.

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By Deirdre Fulton

After a lengthy and tense debate that stretched into the early hours of Thursday morning, the 300-member Greek Parliament voted by a majority of 229-64 to pass what former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis—one of those to vote "No"—is calling the "Terms of Greece's Surrender" to European creditors. The €86 billion bailout comes at a high

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TISA Leaks Part Deux: More Evidence Of Concerted Attack On Democracy

A WikiLeaks analysis shows how 52-nation Trade in Services Agreement threatens both net neutrality and personal data privacy.

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By Deirdre Fulton
The Trade in Services Agreement "responds to major corporate lobbies’ desire to deregulate services," says global trade expert. (Photo: GGAADD/flickr/cc)

One day after it leaked a trove of documents related to the massive, pro-corporate Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), WikiLeaks on Thursday published another four chapters of the proposed 52-nation trade deal, covering key areas ahead of the next negotiating round on Monday. As with Wednesday's documents, Thursday's batch of texts reveals "a

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China Blasts US For ‘Brazen’ Human Rights Abuses at Home And Abroad

In the U.S., ‘minority groups and Indigenous people are subject to unfairness in environment, election, health care, housing, and education,’ China says.

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By Deirdre Fulton

In a report that covers everything from police violence to income inequality to government surveillance, China has blasted the United States for its "grim problems of racial discrimination," use of "cruel tortures indiscriminately," and "terrible human rights record." The lengthy report, carried by the official Xinhua news agency and issued on

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US Drone Program Remains In Shadows As Obama Abandons Key Reform Promise

The blueprint for a new transition plan involves a dual command structure—giving the Defense Department and the CIA joint control of drone strikes.

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By Deirdre Fulton

U.S. President Barack Obama has made a sharp U-turn on his two-year-old promise to move the CIA's controversial drone program out of the "legal shadows," according to new reporting by the Huffington Post. In a May 2013 speech at the National Defense University, Obama vowed to move the "out of the covert shadows and into the relative sunlight of

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A National Action Plan For Community Policing And Racial Justice

‘While media attention waxes and wanes, the groundswell of anger and grief has started to translate into meaningful policy reform,’ groups say.

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By Deirdre Fulton

With protests against police brutality, mass incarceration, and systemic racism sweeping the nation, activists seeking to empower local movements and elevate on-the-ground solutions have developed a set of resources that highlights the "the slow but sustained work of many communities to enact meaningful reforms that transform both the practices and

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