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The Strange Silencing of Liberal America
(Photo: gwenflickr; Edited: JR / Truthout) How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, “Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia,” was banned in …
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Carlos Montes and the Security State: A Cautionary Tale
SWAT team member at a demonstration outside the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Carlos Montes, one of the organizers of the demonstration, faces trial along with …
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Cost of Mental Health Programs for Soldiers Is High
A four-year-old Pentagon effort to improve psychological health services across the military is spending tens of millions — some of it at Joint Base Lewis-McChord — without providing a …
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Obama, Lawmakers Meet on Debt, Agree to Talk Again Monday
President Barack Obama, saying “we need to” resolve the debt reduction issue quickly, held a 75-minute meeting with congressional leaders Sunday that failed to end the impasse over how …
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The Death Penalty and the Cost of an Obsession
Washington - The unseemly love affair of some American politicians with the death penalty is bad for justice and bad for our country's standing in the world. It inflicts …
Five Prison Reform Ideas Being Ignored on Capitol Hill
Prisoners at Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz., Oct. 16, 2009. (Photo: Monica Almeida / The New York Times) After last week’s breakthrough in mitigating the damage …
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Emergency Labor Network Crafts Program to Reverse the American Tax Shift
(Photo: David Reber's Hammer Photography) The breakdown on debt limit negotiations between Republicans and Democrats last week was over draconian cuts in the social wage (Social Security, …
Libya: Will Air War Become an Occupation? (Part Two)
Obama: The U.S. Is Bombing Libya But This Isn't War The U.S. Congress's informal protest over Obama's sidestepping the War Powers Act concerning U.S. participation in the …
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Farm Workers Need Drastic Change
No workers are more in need of union protection than the nation's miserably treated farm workers. Yet a promising new effort to ease their path to unionization has been …
Nonviolent Revolution Clarified: Five Myths and Realities Behind Egypt’s Uprising
There are a handful of misconceptions that have been parroted repeatedly in media coverage of the “Arab Spring.”