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On Children and Childhood
A teacher examines the way children view the world, and how adult actions impact them.
CCR Gitmo Client Seeks Approval for Release from New Review Board
Center for Constitutional Rights client Ghaleb Al-Bihani, a Yemeni citizen who has been held without charge at Guantanamo for over 12 years, asked the Obama administration's new Periodic Review …
People Power in the Philippines: Reproductive Health Law Upheld
After more than a decade languishing in Congress and another year in the courts, the Philippinesu2019 Reproductive Health Law (RH Law) was declared largely constitutional by the Supreme Court …
APWU Pres. Mark Dimondstein Calls For Defense Of The People’s Post Office
Mark Dimondstein president of the American Postal Workers Union spoke in Chicago at the Labor Notes convention on how to defend the People's Post Office.
“Years of Living Dangerously”: James Cameron, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford in TV Climate Change Series
A new Showtime television show featuring Hollywood actors and award-winning journalists brings the issue of climate change alive with the full drama and suspense of a blockbuster movie.
“Off With His Head:” Court Upholds Obama’s Power to Kill
Michael Ratner: There have been no criminal prosecutions for illegal actions committed by the US in the name of national security since September 11.
From Exile to Radicalization in Venezuela
Edgardo Lander tells Paul Jay that in '98, when he saw the whole of the establishment getting together to defeat Chavez, he voted for him even though he had …
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The Conservative Death Panel
Millions of Americans are unable to afford life-saving health care, because Republicans would rather play politics than protect people's lives.
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A Weaponized Human Refuse Dump
People are not only poor, their poverty and suffering have literally been deemed crimes by the elite class of sociopaths running the place.
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Open Systems and Glass Ceilings: The Disappearing Woman and Life on the Internet
The Internet turns out to be a superb mechanism for consolidating money and power and control, even as it gives toys and minor voices to the rest of us.