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Death Is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo
More than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are starving themselves to death, and 23 of them are being force-fed and allegedly punished for their hunger strike.
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Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
Norman Solomon: We need to ask ourselves how the forces of corporate capitalism have gained so much power over government, to the extreme detriment of people who aren't rich.
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Pakistanis Vote in Landmark Election
Voters faced violence from militants, and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is on track for a potential return to power.
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Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women
A breakdown of how spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the US, by the numbers.
The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly, and it's not just Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative.
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Celebrating Mother’s Day and World Fair Trade Day on the Same Weekend
Celebrating Mother's Day and World Fair Trade Day on the same weekend has never felt better, nor been more appropriate.
A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History
As Wendy's shareholders convene their annual meeting in New York, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are calling on the remaining, hold-out, major fast food corporation to …
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Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women’s Bodies
The laws and policies that act to limit and legislate women's lives are intrusive, but they are also insulting and dangerous. They punish women and push an agenda that …
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Guantanamo Is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.
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Somalia Accepts Assistance From Foreign Destabilizers
Somalia has a recent history of accepting assistance from countries that have helped create the problems Somalia must confront.