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Study: Segregation and Poverty Put Black Women at Higher Risk for Breast Cancer
In Chicago, nearly 80 African-American women die of breast cancer every year because of racial differences in access to healthcare, a new study suggests, the worst number of any …
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Truthout FOIA Exposes Forceful Drugging of Detainees
Alyona talks to Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter for Truthout.org about what the FOIA exposed.
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“Under Tents”: International Campaign Launch for Housing in Haiti
Haitian grassroots organizations and international allies are launching an urgent housing rights campaign calling for permanent housing solutions for the nearly 400,000 people who are still living in displacement …
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Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win – and Now Protect – Voting Rights in US
Having risked his life marching for the right of all Americans to vote, Lewis reflects on the ongoing struggle for voting rights today, when 16 states have passed restrictive …
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National Reconnaissance Office Accused of Illegally Collecting Personal Data
The office is so intent on extracting confessions that officials have rewarded polygraphers with cash bonuses.
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Explosive Increase in Mobile Data Requests Means Congress Needs to Act Now on Digital Privacy
The actual number of people swept up in the cell phone surveillance could be ten, twenty or thirty times higher than 1.3 million because many of the law enforcement …
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Syrian Opposition Spokesperson: Any Transition Deal Should Entail Assad’s Prosecution for War Crimes
Syria's 16-month conflict has so far claimed more than 15,000 lives.
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Bill Moyers: The Cowardly Lions of Free Speech
People haven't lost their voice. They can't afford a voice.
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Six Reasons We Can’t Change the Future Without Progressive Religion
Often, religion offers much that progressives need to build movements for change.
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Appreciating Undocumented Americans
Obama repeatedly uses the phrase illegal immigrants. It evokes a conceptual frame in which undocumented Americans are understood first and foremost as criminals.