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After Duo Created CIA Torture Methods, Did World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Enable Abuses?
We look at allegations that the American Psychological Association secretly colluded with US abuses.
Mike Gravel to Sen. Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public Like I Did With Pentagon Papers
On the Senate floor last week, outgoing Democratic Sen. Mark Udall called for a purge of top CIA officials implicated in the torture program and cover-up.
CIA Torture Is Out in the Open – but Guantanamo Bay Detainees Are Still Going Nowhere
We must not forget the 136 detainees remaining in Guantanamo Bay, who are still being tortured and held indefinitely without trial.
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How Big Oil Got Expedited Permitting for Fracking on Public Lands Into the Defense Bill
But only one thing can really receive a promise in this case: public interest groups are in a David vs. Goliath fight.
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Prosecute the Prosecutors: A Way to Justice in Staten Island, Ferguson and Cleveland
Prosecutors are rarely charged criminally, and even more rarely convicted criminally by reluctant courts who work with them, but it can and should happen when merited.
“Ban the Box” Campaigns Seek to End Discrimination Against Formerly Incarcerated College Applicants
The box is more likely to dissuade, if not outright bar, people of color than their white counterparts.
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How State and Local Subsidies Fuel Inequality
More than one-third of the companies linked to individuals on the Forbes 400 are major recipients of taxpayer subsidies.
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New York State Official Raises Alarm on Charter Schools – and Gets Ignored
Add another voice to those warning about the lack of financial oversight for charter schools.
Seeds of Truth: Vandana Shiva and The New Yorker
“My life of science is about creativity and seeing connections, not about mechanistic thought and manipulated facts.”
Henry A. Giroux | America’s Addiction to Torture
State-sanctioned torture is not just a US export; it's part of a long history of domestic terrorism.