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Death Is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo
More than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are starving themselves to death, and 23 of them are being force-fed and allegedly punished for their hunger strike.
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Advocating for Families: The Power of Membership
Parent Voices, a parent-led, parent-run grassroots organization in California, helps single parents with their struggles.
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Pakistanis Vote in Landmark Election
Voters faced violence from militants, and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is on track for a potential return to power.
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Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women
A breakdown of how spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the US, by the numbers.
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Guantanamo Is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.
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Somalia Accepts Assistance From Foreign Destabilizers
Somalia has a recent history of accepting assistance from countries that have helped create the problems Somalia must confront.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IRS Has Apologized to Conservative Political Groups for “Singling Them Out for Additional Review”, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Associated Press reports that the Internal Revenue Service has issued a formal apology to conservative political groups for “singling them out for …
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Obama Administration Outlines New Policy for Arctic Issues
Potential moves include the possibility of additional oil and gas exploration, new fishing territory and increased transit.
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Guatemalan Ex-Dictator Found Guilty of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Judge Yassmin Barrios handed Montt 80 years in jail.
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New Era Windows Cooperative Is Open for Business in Chicago
Meet the takers: They took over their factory, they took on their bosses, they took the initiative to form a worker cooperative and they're taking the wraps off a …