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After Latest NDAA Challenge Hearing, Thoughts on the Criminalization of Dissent
“The essential thrust of the NDAA is to create a system of justice that violates the separation of powers,” our lawyer Carl J. Mayer told the court.
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Understanding the Standoff in Mali
Besides al-Qaeda and its like-minded extremists, no one has an interest in seeing one of Africau2019s largest nations becoming another Afghanistan.
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Americas: Governments Must Stop Imposing Development Projects on Indigenous Peoples’ Territories
Governments across the Americas continue to discriminate against Indigenous peoples by denying their right to have a say on decisions which may have devastating consequences for their cultural survival.
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UN Should Get Rid of Cholera Epidemic That It Brought to Haiti
A cholera epidemic in Haiti brought on by the actions of the United States continues to be ignored.
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The Voter ID Struggle in Pennsylvania: Losing ID Is About Losing More Than The Right to Vote
When states take away ID from poor and working folks, or limit poor and working peopleu2019s access to getting ID in the first place u2013 those people lose far …
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Return Your Eagle Scout Badge
After the BSA reaffirms its exclusion of homosexual members, former members return their badges and share their letters of resignation online.
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How the Chosen Ones Ended Australia’s Olympic Prowess and Revealed Its Secret Past
John Pilger: Australia's secret indigenous history is suppressed and denied.
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Congressional Probe Reveals Cover-Up of “Auschwitz-Like” Conditions at US-Funded Afghan Hospital
A congressional investigation has revealed a top US general in Afghanistan sought to stall an investigation into abuse at a US-funded hospital in Kabul that kept patients in inhumane …
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Emails From ALEC Member Russell Pearce Show Anti-Immigrant Law May Have Been Racially Motivated
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona has asked the man behind the
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The Bomb and the Drone: The Grim Reaper Keeps Taking Its Toll
The United States' use of drones in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yemen echoes its use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki.