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The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
What’s it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison? Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it’s born? …
Fracking and Psychological Operations: Empire Comes Home
When among friends, you're far more likely to air your dirty secrets. A corporate conference held in Houston, Texas, on October 31 to November 1, 2011, titled "Giving Communications …
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Occupy AIPAC: “The Battle for Justice in the Middle East Is Our Battle“
Hundreds of protesters from Occupy AIPAC protested outside AIPAC's annual policy conference in Washington DC yesterday during speeches by President Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres. The group spelled …
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How to Fund an American Police State: Real Money for an Imaginary War (3)
At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. …
Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now
History repeats itself, Marx famously warned, first as tragedy and then as farce. In the case of U.S. torture psychologists, the ” tragedy” occurred half a century ago when …
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Israel’s Assassins and Tehran’s Killers (2)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility. (Photo: Iranian President's Office via The New York Times) They are dying one by one. …
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Labor’s Fight Is Our Fight
Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. The …
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Rick Santorum on Drugs
(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) Rick Santorum has taken the role as the family values candidate in the GOP presidential primary and won a few upsets in the …
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Recently Released Autopsy Reports Heighten Guantanamo “Suicides” Mystery
The entrance to Camp Delta at the US Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, seen in June, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) Autopsy reports …
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Sean Combs’s New Channel: Comcast’s Crumb?
The new “minority” channels from Comcast are well and good, but where are the women’s channels? This week’s news from Comcast reveals the saggy soft underbelly of our movements, …