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SPECIAL FEATURE: CRIPPLED EPISTEMOLOGY

Written by JONATHAN RILEY Posted August 9, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Boston researchers have spent years helping government agencies plan and simulate operations to troll potential terrorists. Despite controversial practices and lackluster results, the covert operations continue.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, BRIC, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, DARPA, DHS, Donald Trump, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, ISIS, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Lone Wolf, MKULTRA, NSA, Persona, Pokemon, Robert Popp, Russian trolls, Sunstein, terrorism, US Army Special Operations Command, Usaamah Rahim, World War II

BROKEN RECORDS: THE SUN DON’T SHINE IN MASSACHUSETTS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted March 14, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

In the Commonwealth, even paying for public records doesn’t guarantee you’ll get them

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Police Department, BPD, Broken Records, FOIA, Golden Padlock Awards, J. Patrick Brown, Massachusetts, MuckRock, National Security Agency, NSA, Secretary Galvin, Sunshine Week

THE MASS DELEGATION SURVEILLANCE SCORECARD: ASK NOT HOW YOUR COUNTRY CAN SPY ON YOU

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted June 23, 2015 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Only a fool would get their news on these intensely granular issues from traditional news sources ...

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Alex Marthews, CIA, Congress, Demand Progress, Digital Fourth, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Freedom Act, Jim McGovern, Joseph Kennedy, Katherine Clark, Michael Capuano, Niki Tsongas, NSA, Richard Neal, Stephen Lynch, surveillance, USA/Patriot Act, William Keating

‘HUMORLESS QUEERS’ MAKES YOU LAUGH TO KEEP FROM CRYING

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted March 19, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Fierce and fearless, Goldstein and Crockford have paired up for a monthly podcast called "Humorless Queers," which in its first five episodes has already addressed ...

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: ACLU, Alexis Goldstein, Citigroup, Emily Hopkins, FBI, Humorless Queers, Kade Crockford, Mass Surveillance, NSA, podcast, Shittygroup, Tsarnaev

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