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State-Sanctioned Rape in Texas: Business as Usual
Cops are performing illegal body cavity searches while rape and sexual assault remains rampant in jails and prisons.
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Broad US Terror Alert Mystifies Experts; “It’s Crazy Pants,” One Says
Counterterrorism experts note that the alert covers an incongruous set of nations from the Middle East to an island off the southern coast of Africa.
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Life at Louisiana’s Toxic Sinkhole: An Eco-Disaster Continues With No End in Sight
A year after a toxic sinkhole caused by one of Texas Brine's salt caverns either drove neighborhood homeowners in Louisiana out of their houses or left them with ongoing …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Our Government Is Going After Bank of America, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed parallel civil lawsuits against Bank of America for making misleading statements and failing …
A Domestic Surveillance Scandal at the DEA? Agents Urged to Cover Up Use of NSA Intel in Drug Probes
The US Department of Justice has begun reviewing a controversial unit inside the Drug Enforcement Administration that uses secret domestic surveillance tactics - including intelligence gathered by the National …
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The Sleuth Journal Introduces Drone Patrol – Join Us!
There's a new trend in surveillance and that trend involves drones in our skies. Many have seen them, but most don't report them. Why not? It's because until recently, …
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Bringing Gitmo to the Senate
On July 30 we had a combined action both inside and outside the Hart Senate Bldg. A gaunt looking Elliott Adams, on day 73 of his hunger strike, managed …
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Running Away from TB Treatment
As patients attempt to flee hospitals, misconceptions about TB are thwarting doctorsu2019 attempts to stamp out the disease.
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Haitian Grassroots Groups Wary of “Attractive” Mining Law
With more policies aimed to entice investors, Haitians are mobilizing and forming networks to resist mining in their country.
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America’s Foster Care System: Test Lab for Big Pharma, Cash Cow for Caretakers?
It's estimated that more than half of America's foster children are on some sort of psychiatric drug. A practice one doctor calls u201cinstitutionalized child abuse.