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Homan Square torture and Chicago Police revenge plot allegations linked
A botched CPD investigation following the murder of officer Clifton Lewis led to Angel Perez's alleged abuse in the notorious Homan Square police…
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'Ideological,' 'not scientific': Iran polling firm GAMAAN flawed, not independent
GAMAAN has extensive ties to U.S. government-funded, pro-regime change orgs, and employs unreliable survey methods that produce misleading results
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DOJ knew about - and used - notorious Homan Square "black site"
It wasn't just Chicago Police operating the off-the-books holding facility, the site of alleged torture and days-long unlawful detention
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Inside the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Chicago and Palestine meeting
The leftist Party gathering took aim at American (and Chicagoan) support for Israel
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Chicago police used Dataminr, controversial surveillance tool
Formerly CIA-funded, Dataminr has been criticized for its surveillance of non-criminal protest activity, and has provided hundreds of thousands of…
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Chicago office building feared pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Feds tasked counterterrorism team to keep watch
DHS dispatched counterterrorism Fusion Center to track potential pro-Palestinian protests despite lack of specific threats
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Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion profile quietly removed from Stanford extremist group list
The government-funded research project's mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial…
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Irrational Actor
Irrational Actor
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Irrational Actor

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