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Human Rights
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The Torture Was the Message
Call it “shock and awe.”
Brief: Fourth Amendment Protections Should Apply When Data Is Seized
The government contends that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to copying data, only to searching it.
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Our Shamefully Sanctioned Sadism
Almost without exception, Americans have had deep fears of confronting one particular truth about George W. Bush, and that is his sadism.
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Senate Torture Report Concludes the USA Tortured for No Reason; Places Blame on the CIA, While Providing Protection for Others Who Are Equally Responsible
This narrow focus limits the Report's usefulness.
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White House Refuses to Meet With Grieving Black Mothers Whose Sons Were Executed by Cops
The activists are committed to sustained actions around the DOJ and its leaders until indictments are rendered.
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Red Love: Toward Racial, Economic and Social Justice
Racism exacerbated by a capitalist production process poisons our society. The antidote is red love.
CIA Torture Is Out in the Open – but Guantanamo Bay Detainees Are Still Going Nowhere
We must not forget the 136 detainees remaining in Guantanamo Bay, who are still being tortured and held indefinitely without trial.
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Prosecute the Prosecutors: A Way to Justice in Staten Island, Ferguson and Cleveland
Prosecutors are rarely charged criminally, and even more rarely convicted criminally by reluctant courts who work with them, but it can and should happen when merited.
Henry A. Giroux | America’s Addiction to Torture
State-sanctioned torture is not just a US export; it's part of a long history of domestic terrorism.
How the CIA Covered Up Its Lie on Torture and bin Laden
The Senate report reveals how the CIA used the film “Zero Dark Thirty” to popularize the agency's false account of its torture program.