Truthout
Human Rights
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US Responsibility for Global Refugee Crises
This humanitarian crisis is the direct result of the United States and NATO decision to effect regime change in Libya in 2011.
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“Farkhunda Is Our Sister”: A “Martyr,” a Murder and the Making of a New Afghanistan?
Afghan civilians, facing the nightmarish murder of a young woman, may be taking things heroically into their own hands.
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The GOP’s Food Stamp Hypocrisy
Welfare for the rich and austerity for working people is the name of the game for the Republican Party.
Former Baltimore Cop: You Can’t Enforce the Law by Breaking It
Stephen Tabeling says police who are hesitant in wake of Freddie Gray indictments don't understand the law.
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Baltimore’s Tolerance Double Standard
More Than 100 Wounded in Brutal Police Reaction to Teachers’ Strike in South of Brazil
The clashes were the result of violent acts by the military police against public servants, mostly teachers of the state of Parana.
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How Bernie’s Run Is a New Opening for the Immigrant Rights Movement
Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential bid is a chance to show how undocumented immigrants are victims of an unjust system.
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Is Buffalo Baltimore?
Urban unrest is disruptive to the sacred free market that “the capitalist's tool” exists to serve.
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Mothers of Resistance
These mothers are fighting for their children's rights - and a better, more equitable tomorrow.
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Free to Be a Free Rider
The northern victory in the American Civil War enabled political elites to forcibly subdue workers' collective attempts to address economic inequality under capitalism.