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Elizabeth Warren | The Trans-Pacific Partnership Clause Everyone Should Oppose

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Elizabeth Warren | The Trans-Pacific Partnership Clause Everyone Should Oppose
Senator Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Rick Friedman/Corbis)

Elizabeth Warren, The Washington Post
Warren writes: "ISDS would allow foreign companies to challenge U.S. laws - and potentially to pick up huge payouts from taxpayers - without ever stepping foot in a U.S. court."
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Why NFL Players Are Taking on Scott Walker
Kavitha A. Davidson, Bloomberg
Davidson writes: "The union released a strongly worded statement yesterday denouncing the state's proposed right-to-work legislation -- which would prohibit businesses and unions from requiring workers to pay union dues -- and reaffirming its solidarity 'with the working families of Wisconsin and organized labor in their fight against current attacks against their right to stand together as a team.'"
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'Gestapo' Tactics at US Police 'Black Site' Ring Alarm from Chicago to Washington
Spencer Ackerman, Zach Stafford, Mark Guarino and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "The US Department of Justice and embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called 'CIA or Gestapo tactics' at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian."
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FCC Votes to Allow Cities to Expand Broadband Networks
Kate Cox, Consumerist
Cox writes: "As expected, the FCC today has confirmed an order permitting two cities to expand their existing municipal fiber broadband networks despite state-level laws that block them from doing so."
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Jeremy Scahill | Gemalto Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
Scahill writes: "Gemalto, which is the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, launched an internal investigation after The Intercept six days ago revealed that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ hacked the company and cyberstalked its employees."
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Feminist Writers Are So Besieged by Online Abuse that Some Have Begun to Retire
Michelle Goldberg, The Washington Post
Goldberg writes: "While digital media has amplified feminist voices, it has also extracted a steep psychic price. Women, urged to tell their stories, are being ferociously punished when they do."
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Crude Awakening: How the Keystone Veto Dashes Canada's 'Superpower' Dreams
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Dickinson writes: "Since ultraconservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper - famously described by one Canadian columnist as 'our version of George W. Bush, minus the warmth and intellect' - took power in 2006, he's quietly set his country on a course that seems to be straight from the Koch brothers' road map."
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