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A Tale of Two Alleged Iran Nuke Leakers
Sterling is accused of providing Risen classified information regarding Operation Merlin, a bungled CIA effort to deal Iran bad nuclear weapons information.
The Con Artistry of Charter Schools
Once an effort to improve public education, the charter school movement has transformed into a money-making venture.
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A USS Liberty’s Hero’s Passing
On June 8, 1967, the Israeli government learned that it could get away with murder, literally, and the crime would be covered up.
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Will Obama’s Commutation Allow Grandma Hardy and Thousands of Drug War Prisoners to Finally Go Home?
The Obama administration and the US Sentencing Commission are allowing drug war prisoners to retroactively apply for commutation and reduced sentences. But will these changes actually allow 71-year-old Phyllis …
Apocalypse of the “Happy Meal”: Worshiping the Golden Calf
What we set on our tables, and chow down on at fast-food restaurants, may be contributing more to the acceleration of climate change and human extinction than some of …
New Police Hacking Technologies Raise Familiar Questions About Civil Liberties
In the last decade, US police have used every available tool to conduct surveillance. With the FBI taking that fight to the internet, we must make sure policing-by-malware doesn't …
Long a Force for Progress, a Freedom Summer Legend Looks Back
Georgia Congressman John Lewis talks about what changed, and didn't, because of the movement he helped to lead 50 years ago.
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The Ferguson Effect on Our Great-Grandchildren
While Ferguson continues to protest the police shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, it's also dealing with crippling poverty.
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As Police Continue Ferguson Crackdown, Protesters Vow to Keep Taking the Streets
People in Ferguson, Missouri have been protesting for 10 days now and are showing no sign of stopping, following the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old, Michael Brown, by a …
Prospects for an Antiwar/Solidarity Movement in Russia
It is in the vital interest of the free people of the world that neither Kiev nor NATO succeeds in its ambitions.