Bankrupt Philadelphia plunders homeowners via gas monopoly
"The gas company is filing liens over people’s properties due to unpaid gas bills for as little as $300. There is essentially zero due process here."
Amazon Facial Recognition Confuses Members of Congress with Criminals
"Only 20 percent of the members of Congress are racial minorities. But 39 percent of the members of Congress who were mistaken for criminals were racial minorities."
Canada is using ancestry DNA websites to help it deport people
"In another example of the extraordinary lengths Canadian immigration officials go to deport migrants, the Canada Border Services Agency has been collecting their DNA and using ancestry websites to find and contact their distant relatives and establish their nationality."
US bans generic form of opioid treatment drug Suboxone
"The UK based pharma company Indivior PLC had got the restraining orders against Dr Reddy's just a day after the US FDA granted the final approval last month."
What Forced Separation Feels Like
"Incarceration rates are on the rise alongside economic inequality, and children aren’t exempt. Quite often, the only crime these children have committed is that they’re from vulnerable families or suffering from mental health issues."
6 companies that are the most reliant on government contracts
"What might be surprising is just how dependent some companies are on government spending for their existence."
Perpetual U.S. Wars, Explained In 140 Seconds
"In 1935, USMC Major General Smedley Butler warned the world that 'War is a racket. It always has been...'"
California Rep. Supported By Banks Pushes For Federal Cryptocurrency Ban
"'We should prohibit U.S. persons from buying or mining cryptocurrencies,' the California Democrat - whose largest donor is credit card processor Allied Wallet - declared."
How your data is used by police, and where it goes wrong
"For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film 'Minority Report,' this will sound like life catching up with art."
Why the Media is Desperate to Reclaim its “Gatekeeper” Status for News
"Don’t you miss the good old days when you could believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the media reported it?"
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