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An attempt to hold the US contractor CACI International accountable for torture at Abu Ghraib could result in the victims being held liable for legal fees.

In some developing countries, the police are being used to put down indigenous opposition to the alliance of state and corporate power over resource extraction.

The appearance of a cruelty-free execution has always been just that: a carefully-crafted appearance.

The Obama administration is talking up the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release some prisoners, but this is not the beginning of a rollback of America's prison …

Vermont is poised to become the first state to require the labeling of genetically modified organisms in food products.

Pharmaceutical companies, with the help of the US government, are now coercing countries to adopt more stringent intellectual property protection.

Mr. Robock tells Paul Jay he's a skeptic who tries to be critical and then makes conclusions based on the evidence.

Every kid in the US could have a free public college education right now if George W. Bush hadn't been such a war monger.

A recent ‘People’ magazine cover sparks consideration of the hiding-in-plain-sight but never-discussed racism that characterizes the United States and the ways US media subtly sustain that racism.

San Francisco is experiencing a wave of unprecedented hyper-gentrification and urban removal.