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Human Dignity: A Casualty of War
War encourages dehumanization and breeds atrocity. This, in part, is what makes the current evolution of warfare so terrifying.
Turning Towards Nonviolence: A Response to the Aurora, Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
Father John Dear: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. both insisted that we need a fundamental internal conversion from violence to nonviolence as the basis for our work …
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Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone
Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a …
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Accounts of Syria Rebels Executing Prisoners Raise New Human Rights Concerns
This week, a rebel commander in Damascus said that over the months his unit had executed perhaps 150 people it had detained on suspicion of being pro-Assad informants.
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Taking Henry Giroux’s Borderless Pedagogy to Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We must move away from accepting the structural and ideological constraints that maintain current systems of domination.
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Urban Farms or Myths?
Devon G. Peu00f1a discusses the successes and failures of the new Urban Farming culture.
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Did the NYPD Break International Law in Suppressing Protest?
How the NYPD used excessive force, arrested reporters, and broke international law in their handling of Occupy.
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Economy Generates 163,000 Jobs in July; Unemployment Edges Up to 8.3 Percent
Job growth should average 160,000-180,000 the rest of the year.
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Gore Vidal and His Reading List for America
Michael Winship recounts his encounter with Gore Vidal who gave his picks for the best books to get through the Reagan years.
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Does Mitt Romney Think He Is a Son of Abraham and That the Land of Zion Will Be His Inheritance?
Given Romney's recent visit or Israel, we explore the deeper tenets of Mormon theology.