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Human Rights
We Must End the Madness of Nuclear Weapons
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has courageously taken the nine nuclear weapons-wielding countries to the International Court of Justice.
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Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force: Feminism Has Just Started (and It’s Not Stopping Now)
"The road may be a thousand miles long, but the woman walking down it isn't at mile one. I don't know how far she has to go, but I …
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The Master’s House Is Burning: bell hooks, Cornel West and the Tyranny of Neoliberalism
Cornel West critiques Barack Obama, bell hooks calls Beyonce a terrorist, and contemporary black intellectuals take to the interwebs to express disgust.
Debating Snowden, the New York Times and Palestinian Brass Knuckles
FAIR's Peter Hart discusses the mainstream media's debate on Edward Snowden, how activists had to pressure New York Times editors to issue a correction about Palestinian Brass Knuckles, and …
“The Stuff I Saw Really Began to Disturb Me”: How the US Drone War Pushed Snowden to Leak NSA Docs
Greenwald describes the inside story of the man behind the NSA leaks.
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Beyond Marriage: Advocates Call on Obama Administration to Combat LGBTQ Criminalization
Despite the media hype, marriage equality is not the top issue on every agenda in the LGBTQ world.
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How Not to “Bring Back Our Girls“
Because western nations continue to interfere in Africa's affairs and place compliant “strong men” in power, nearly every government on that continent is weak.
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Truth be Told: Lessons from Lennon on Government Surveillance
It's interesting to imagine what John Lennon might have said about a world in which government agencies, and others, monitor private conversations. Not much of a stretch, really, as …
How Bill Clinton’s Welfare “Reform” Created a System Rife With Racial Biases
It's become a political cliche that “red” and “blue” states represent two Americas. But consider how states prioritize programs like health care and education - or how they administer …
Introducing “Human Rights and Global Wrongs”
Professor Marjorie Cohn analyzed human rights violations in the Bush and Obama administrations and she continues to write about executive branch lawbreaking in the era of Donald Trump.