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Obama’s “Humane Deportation” Policy Review Lacks Humanity
The US immigration system, in particular the detention and deportation system, does not treat immigrants with humanity, dignity and respect.
No Escaping Dragnet Nation
This week, as the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein publicly accused the CIA of spying on her committee's computers, Bill talks with investigative reporter Julia Angwin, …
Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA “Infects” Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server
New disclosures from Edward Snowden show the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide.
From Waterboarding to Water Curing: Gitmo Detainee Sues Over Force-Feeding
Military protocols for force-feeding prisoners have been knowingly altered to inflict superfluous suffering.
On International Women’s Day, Show Your Support for the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in Massachusetts
Nannies and housekeepers are some of the lowest paid workers in the US, facing high rates of exploitation, poor working conditions, and harassment from employers.
New Cases of Corporate Spying Bolster Troubling Trend: What Is Being Done About It?
Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?
The Warmth of Other Suns: Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration
Should they go or should they stay? That was a question millions of African Americans living in the South asked themselves in the 20th Century.
Peeping Webcam? With NSA Help, British Spy Agency Intercepted Millions of Yahoo Chat Images
The latest top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the the Government Communications Headquarters may have peered into the lives of …
The Ideology of Symbolism, the Symbols of Idolatry
“All Men are created equal” conjures up feelings of patriotic zeal, a sense of commonality within the citizenry of the country, and a belief that ours was a country …
ODNR The Truth Revealed: Ohio Agency Selected By the State Legislature to Regulate Drilling Actually Promoting Drilling… Not So Surprising to All
“With 90 wells in a 13-square mile residential community, residents in my hometown of Broadview Heights, OH, learned several years ago that the ODNR was not on our side.”