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Second-Degree Murder Charge May Be Hard to Prove in Trayvon Martin Case
Miami - Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey likely has an uphill climb to prove that George Zimmerman acted with the malicious intent required to convict him of second-degree murder …
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald Tells Truthout How the Koch Brothers Endanger Democracy and Our Health
BuzzFlash at Truthout first got to know Robert Greenwald when he and Earl Katz, who is now chair of Public Interest Pictures, were trying to get a film about …
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Guantánamo Judge’s Ruling Avoids Issue of Secret Testimony
The entrance to Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, seen in June, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) Guantanamo Bay Navy Base, …
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To Whom Much Is Given: Why We Need to Tax Inheritance
Roughly half of the wealthiest Americans inherited all or much of their wealth, and the United States ranks near the bottom of rich countries in terms of intergenerational mobility. …
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Washington Post: George Zimmerman to Be Charged in Trayvon Martin Shooting
Trayvon Martin rally, Hollywood, California, March 24, 2012. (Photo: Greg Lilly Photos) A little over a month and a half after he first gunned down the Florida teenager Trayvon …
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A Question of Human Rights: Keeping the F1 Racing Series Out of Bahrain
On April 22, the royal family of Bahrain is determined to stage its annual Formula 1 Grand Prix race. This might not sound like scintillating news, but whether the …
Mélenchon Could Change French Politics With Strong Showing
France’s conservative President, Nicolas Sarkozy, ran for office in 2007 on a program of making the French economy more like that of the United States. He picked a bad …
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Two Immigrants Killed in Ambush by Arizona Gunmen
Eloy, Arizona. (Photo: Coc@) Two people were killed on Sunday night when “an unknown number of subjects in camouflage clothing armed with rifles” ambushed a truck carrying 20 to …
Who Runs Egypt
The two best organized forces in Egypt today remain the military and Islamist organizations. They have been quite successful in leveraging their advanced organization to assert control of the …
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Governments Around the World Grapple with Nonprofit Journalism
In Free Press’ 2011 report on international models for public media, we noted how many of the changes we are witnessing in the American media landscape are also happening …