Truthout
Human Rights
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Does the First Amendment Include the Right to Tell Lies?
As with any Constitutional right, the Supreme Court has ruled that no right is absolute.
Government Watchdog Group Declares Surveillance Programs Illegal Affirming Snowden Whistleblower Status
An independent bipartisan agency within the Executive Branch has issued a landmark 238-page report that concludes the bulk metadata telephony program conducted by the National Security Agency has provided …
Federal Oversight Board: NSA Program Ineffective and Illegal
NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discuss the implications of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's assessment, considering report commissioned by Congress.
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Stand in Support of Women and Girls and Against Misogyny in All Its Forms
I strongly encourage you all to reach out and help all our mothers, sisters and daughters to make sure they are all safe and free.
Immigration Advocates Face Serious Challenges in Passing Reform in 2014
Despite nationwide mobilization, immigrant advocates acknowledge they have failed to reform a broken immigration system.
2014 Budget Restores & Increases Resources for Victims
The measure commits increased resources to the Violence Against Women Act, the Victims of Crime Act and the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act shelter funding.
You Are Not One but Many
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Has Martin Luther King’s “Dream” Been Realized?
Nearly half of those who responded to a poll said a lot more needs to be done before people in the United States would "be judged not by the …
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Beyond the Dreamer
As the country marks Martin Luther King Jr.'s 85th birthday, a veteran activist explains why it would be a mistake to remember King as only a great civil rights …
Surveillance and Scandal: Time-Tested Weapons for US Global Power
Historian of US surveillance practices, Alfred McCoy, points out that what the NSA has set up, despite the blowback it's now causing, is irresistible to Washington.