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Ten Years Later: Will We Ever Hold Torturers Accountable?
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn New York University Press New York and London 2011 "There …
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Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy
A medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including …
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Obama to Congress: Pass My $447 Billion Jobs Plan Now
Washington - With the nation verging on renewed recession, President Barack Obama urged a divided Congress Thursday night to back his new $447 billion jobs package, which he promised …
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Longshore Workers Dump Scab Grain to Protect Jobs
The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded as pickets massed on railroad tracks by the hundreds yesterday to block grain shipments. Police …
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New Documents Suggest DoD Watchdog Covered Up Intelligence Unit’s Work Tracking 9/11 Terrorists
The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses after two highjacked planes crashed into the twin towers of the center, in New York on September 11, 2001. (Photo: …
Qaddafi’s Western Friends
Valletta, Malta - With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in ruins and Qaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so …
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Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Enforced Dependency Is Everywhere
Ours is a truly complex world — with interlocking systems of finance and debt, globalized supply chains for commodities and products, highly specialized social roles and professions, and multiple …
Predicting Global Economic Volatility This Week
This week, September 6-10, may prove one of the most volatile economically and financially since the global banking panic of September 2008 - both in the US and worldwide. …
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Those Hoping to “Seize DC” Have to Wait for October
Even as the last of the 1,252 people arrested in front of the White House in opposition to the tar sands pipeline were being handcuffed and processed, another group …
Bahrain’s Movement Alive Regardless of Media Neglect
He runs impulsively and courageously, carrying his country’s flag as if he were carrying his own dream. He looks young, athletic, and fearless. He jumps over a bridge’s fence …