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“The Square”: Jehane Noujaim’s New Film Captures Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution After Mubarak’s Fall
As Egyptians mark the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, we look at a new documentary that captures the ongoing protest movement in Egypt well after the downfall of …
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West Point Think Tank Buries the Dynamite
To paraphrase, more irreparable harm has been done with the point of a pen than at the point of a gun.
Dam Shame: Rivers and Resistance
Massive dams are being built and considered all over the world, despite mounting concern over their economic, environmental and human impacts.
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Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
Are activists like Aaron Swartz committing civil disobedience, or online crimes?
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What Obama’s Gun Plan Means for Mental Health Care
Four of Obama's 23 executive actions on gun control target mental health explicitly.
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The March for Death
Every year, the March for Life makes a very odd decision. By bringing Republicans into their rally year-after-year, they've turned their annual so-called march for life into a march …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: CIA Whistleblower Gets 30 Months in Jail for Releasing Classified Information on Waterboarding, and More
In today's On the News segment: CIA whistleblower, John Kiriakou, was sentenced to 30 months in jail for releasing classified information that exposed the agency's use of waterboarding; Democrats …
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Foul Play in the Senate
Amgen, world's largest biotechnology firm, snuck a clause into the fiscal cliff bill that gives the company two more years of relief from Medicare cost controls for certain drugs.
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Is the US Government Preparing to Charge Accused Terrorist Abu Zubaydah With War Crimes?
Two days before denying Truthout's FOIA requests, the Office of the Chief Prosecutor placed Zubaydah on a list of “horizon cases” the Office of Military Commissions "projects to be …
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“I Still Believe Anita Hill”: Unafraid to Declare Side Over Persistent Problem
Eleanor J. Bader reviews I Still Believe Anita Hill: Three Generations Discuss the Legacies of Speaking Truth to Power, highlighting the continuing challenge of confronting sexual harrassment despite the …