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Human Rights
What I Don’t Like About Life in the American Police State
To quote Number Six, the character in the British television series The Prisoner: I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my …
In Palestine the Time Is Now
The Palestinian struggle as our own.
The US’s “Rutterless” Immigration and Border Policies
In order to forge a more accurate rutter for immigration and border policies, political and military leaders, news pundits, talk-show hosts, even US citizens, will themselves have to travel …
CNN: Palestinians Want to Die
Small-scale violence by Palestinians is not justified by Israel's ongoing brutality.
Kavita Krishnan: “Women’s Liberation, Everyone’s Liberation”
It is not enough to say it's rooted in patriarchy and capitalism. You do need to understand exactly how it is rooted in Indian society and how we can …
“We Should Be Protecting Children”: Rep. Gutierrez Supports Funds for Humanitarian Crisis at Border
President Obama has called for close to $3.7 billion to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the US-Mexico border where more than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained since …
Fire in the Eves to Major Conflagration: It’s High Time to Evaluate Burma’s So-called Democratic Reforms
We need to go back to where all the ladders start, at the rag and bone shop of the heart, at the Human Rights level.
Spied on for Being Muslim? NSA Targets Named in Snowden Leaks Respond to US Government Surveillance
A new report by The Intercept has identified five prominent Muslim Americans who were spied on by the National Security Agency.
MPs to Vote on Legal Aid Cut Which Would Shut Torture Victims Out of Court
The measures, known as the residence test, would block anyone resident outside the UK from receiving legal aid.
We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us
The Snowden disclosures show not only the specifics of domestic surveillance, but also that the struggle we are facing is not privacy versus security, but democracy versus tyranny.