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Turning Towards Nonviolence: A Response to the Aurora, Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
Father John Dear: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. both insisted that we need a fundamental internal conversion from violence to nonviolence as the basis for our work …
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Private Prisons Spend $45 Million on Lobbying, Rake in $5.1 Billion for Immigrant Detention Alone
Nearly half of all immigrants detained by federal officials are held in facilities run by private prison companies, at an average cost for each detained immigrant is $166 a …
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Accounts of Syria Rebels Executing Prisoners Raise New Human Rights Concerns
This week, a rebel commander in Damascus said that over the months his unit had executed perhaps 150 people it had detained on suspicion of being pro-Assad informants.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: The DOJ Is Investigating Bank of America for Its Role in the LIBOR Scandal, and More
In today's On the News segment: Bank of America has received subpoenas from the Department of Justice looking into what role the bank may have played in the LIBOR …
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Taking Henry Giroux’s Borderless Pedagogy to Our Institutions of Higher Learning
We must move away from accepting the structural and ideological constraints that maintain current systems of domination.
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Party of Lincoln
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Urban Farms or Myths?
Devon G. Peu00f1a discusses the successes and failures of the new Urban Farming culture.
What a Single-Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like (Part 2)
Gerald Friedman: A single-payer plan in Maryland would cover everyone, improve outcomes and make business more competitive.
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Did the NYPD Break International Law in Suppressing Protest?
How the NYPD used excessive force, arrested reporters, and broke international law in their handling of Occupy.
Bill McKibben: Even Industry-Funded Climate Change Deniers Can’t Ignore Planet’s Warming
Hundreds of new US counties were declared disaster areas on Wednesday amidst the countryu2019s worst drought in decades.