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No Human Being Is Illegal
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the Department of Homeland Security's new Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), flies past the Empire State Building in New York during …
Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights
(Image: JR / Truthout) The statistic in this chapter’s epigraph is sobering indeed. It says corporations sought protection under the Fourteenth Amendment a hundred times more often …
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Who Are We – and Should It Matter in the 21st Century?
(Image: Viking) Most of us grow into our identities as easily as acorns do into oaks - rarely questioning, resisting or protesting those events that do not …
Unequal Protection: Corporate Control of Politics
(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …
Unequal Protection: Protecting Corporate Liars
(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …
Unequal Protection: The Court Takes the Presidency
(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …
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Our Love Affair With Fish Is Unsustainable
(Image: UC Press) Imagine what people would say if a band of hunters strung a mile of net between two immense all-terrain vehicles and dragged it at …
“Unequal Protection”: Corporations Go Global
(Image: JR / Truthout) People, at the time, generally weren’t all that concerned about the fate of the world’s dolphins. It was the last week of June …
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Into My Father’s Wake
"Into My Father's Wake" records a solo, 5,000-mile Pacific journey aboard the 47-foot ketch Feo, in which the author attempts to put his powerful father to rest once and …
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Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security
(Image: Yale University Press) This essay is an excerpt from his new book, "Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security," published this month by …