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Gitmo Trial Ethics Breaches Called Possible Obama Plan to Close Prison
Legal observer calls breaches ‘too many fiascos in too short an order to be the result of random chance.’
Are School Closings Racist?
At the most basic level, thereu2019s the fact that decisions about African American communities are being made without their consent.
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Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry
u201cIn the absence of state law, business entities are nothing.u201d
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Hearts, Minds and Dollars: Condolence Payments in the Drone Strike Age
What happens when innocent civilians are killed in drone strikes?
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The Struggle to Reclaim Paradise
This spirited march was the last of a series of protests on the five Hawaiian islands that Monsanto and other biotech companies have turned into the worldu2019s ground zero …
The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States
The two most looked-up words in 2012 were ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Immigration Reform Rallies Spread From Coast to Coast, and More
Yesterday, thousands rallied around our nation to urge Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Sparks Furor at Home for Defending Palestinian Right to Resist
Amira Hass, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank, recently suffered a torrent of hate mail …
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Time to Bell the Obama Cat
Norman Solomon responds to President's Obama new plan to cut social security.
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Monsanto’s Next Target: Democracy
The battle for food sovereignty is a battle we cannot afford to lose.