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The Lessons of Law and Order: What Canadians Can Learn From Failed US Crime Policy
An Ontario Provincial Police vehicle. (Photo: NapaneeGal) "I want to be the Premier to bring change these families need and deserve. Change that puts criminals to work. …
Van Jones on America’s Uprising: It’s Going to Be an Epic Battle
As the grassroots sit-ins and marches that originated as Occupy Wall Street spread to other cities, Van Jones, lead evangelist for the American Dream movement, took the stage Monday …
Waste and Fraud Problems? Cut the Investigators and It Will Disappear!
(Image: JR / Truthout) So, you have a 90-year-old federal agency that returns $87 for every dollar invested, recommended $50 billion in savings every year, writes over …
The “Eco-al-Qaeda”? September 11 Ushered in War on “Eco-Terrorism” and Civil Liberties
Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) delivers the Weekly Republican Address. On September 12, 2001, Walden warned Congress that “eco-terrorists” posed a threat “no less heinous than” the attack on 9/11. …
Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
The United States has long styled itself a Pacific power. It established the model of counterinsurgency in the Philippines in 1899 and defeated the Japanese in World War II. …
Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran
There are mounting signs that the right-wing Israeli government may think the timing is right for an attack on Iran, with growing alarms inside Israel about alleged Iranian progress …
Five Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans
As the ongoing occupation of Wall Street by hundreds of protesters enters its third week — and as protests spread to other cities such as Boston and Los Angeles …
Borrowed Hands
In the fall of 2006 Irma Luna, a community worker for California Rural Legal Assistance in Fresno, got a phone call from the tiny town of Tulelake, on the …
It Could Be You: The Sad Story of Jose Padilla, Tortured and Denied Justice
(Image: JR / Truthout) For nine and a half years - almost as long as the “war on terror” has been providing an excuse for paranoia about …
Chickening Out in Iraq
Very few people outside the agricultural world know that if the rooster in a flock dies the hens will continue to produce fertile eggs for up to four weeks …