Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret

Contracts between police and city authorities, leaked after hackers breached the website of the country’s biggest law enforcement union, contain guarantees that disciplinary records and complaints made against officers are kept secret or even destroyed.

The Battle Over Obama’s Internet Surrender

It’s make or break for the internet as we know it. Unless Congress acts this summer, the Obama administration will end U.S. protection of the internet, handing authoritarian regimes the power they have long sought to censor the web globally, including in the U.S.

Capitalism will collapse because banks & political elite ‘allow poor to rot’ ‒ Tariq Ali

The banks behind politicians in the western world “have allowed the poor to rot,” and now the elites in those countries, especially the US, are facing a revolt, journalist and author Tariq Ali told RT America’s Chris Hedges in an exclusive interview.

‘Corporate-approved candidate’: Chris Hedges rips media coverage of Clinton

Questions are being posed asking whether Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the mainstream media were in collusion or if reporters simply jumped the gun by declaring her the presumptive Democratic nominee the day before six states held primary elections.

‘That’s not journalism’: Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur slams CNN for declaring Clinton Democrat nominee

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, has criticised CNN’s “biased” US election coverage, accusing the network of “journalistic malpractice” for counting superdelegates in their official tally before the Democratic Party’s convention. During an on-air interview Sunday, Uygur slammed CNN and other MSM for racing to announce Hillary Clinton as the presumptive winner of the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, weeks before superdelegates have actually cast their vote.

FBI in new push to probe web browser history – report

The FBI hopes to amend surveillance laws as early as this year, giving the agency explicit authority to access a personal Internet browser history by simply issuing an administrative “national security letter,” the Washington Post reports.

Placebo Ballots: Stealing California From Bernie Using an Old GOP Vote-Snatching Trick

Alert! California poll workers have been told to give all independent voters “provisional” ballots if they want to vote in Democratic Party. That’s illegal – and will insure that Sanders voters’ ballots end up in the garbage, uncounted. A special bulletin for California voters.

‘Grimy business’: John Oliver makes TV history, forgives $15m in medical debt he purchased

In a scathing attack on the lack of regulations in the debt-collection industry, HBO comedy host John Oliver announced that a debt collection agency formed by his show would forgive $15 million in medical debts held by about 9,000 people.

Under attack

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Drone wars undermine ‘checks and balances’ – Army chaplain resigning over strikes

The Obama administration’s drone strike policies around the world have “blown accountability and oversight and checks and balances up in smoke,” a US Army chaplain who left the military in April told RT in an interview.