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Military Commissions Stuck on Torture
From October 22 to 25, 2013, pretrial hearings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people made little progress as the …
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Delicious Food Is Not An Indulgence—It’s a Way to Solve Our Ecological Crises
For local food activists, the movement for food that is good for our bodies and our planet has blossomed beyond what anyone ever imagined.
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Who’s in Charge: Israel or the USA?
“Washington DC is in effect an Israeli colony. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives are Israeli-occupied territories,” writes Avnery.
Public Citizen Asks Online Retailer KlearGear.com To Remedy Its Retaliation Against Customer for Critical Online Review
Online merchant KlearGear.com must retract its reports to consumer credit agencies concerning a phony $3,500 debt it has sought from customer John Palmer since late spring of 2012, Public …
Pilgrim’s Regress and the “Hand of God”
When climbing aboard the Mayflower and learning that his young wife, Dorothy, had fallen overboard and drowned, more than likely committing suicide, William Bradford called his tiny flock of …
Iran Nuclear Deal as Geopolitical Global Warming
With Iran holding the dubious honor of being the CIA's first adventure in the overthrow of a foreign government in 1953, the blowback for that and every other insidious …
The Lady Parts of Texas Women: Don’t Mess With Them
If you are a women living in Texas, that state has passed hundreds of laws in the last several years that strip a womenu2019s right to privacy, limit access …
The Global War on Terror and Internally Displaced Thanksgivings
Except for those directly participating in GWOT or returning home from overseas military deployments, including their immediate families, this Thanksgiving few US citizens will consider how an international antiterrorism …
The Pope Slams “Tyranny” of Capitalism and “Idolatry of Money,” But Opposes Shift on Women, Abortion
Pope Francis has used his first major written work to attack capitalism as a “new tyranny,” while urging global leaders to fight poverty and inequality.
Can President Obama Do More to Stop Deportations?
A heckler challenges Obama to do more to stop deportations, but does the president have the authority to do so?