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Human Rights
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Déjà vu: Defense Officials Downplay Growing Guantanamo Hunger Strike With Bush-Era Talking Points
The hunger strike parallels one that took place in 2006 when protest stemmed from the search of prisoners' Korans for hidden drugs.
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Idle No More, The Black Experience, and Why It is that What We Say About Others Reveals So Much About Ourselves
New equality movement is challenging the flow of power when it comes to human rights.
The Fire Last Time
100 years after the Triangle fire, we still hear the same rhetoric whenever reformers seek to use government to businesses act more responsibly.
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Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama’s Palestine Speech with Gaza’s Ark
While President Obama's Jerusalem speech left many things to be desired, groups like Gaza's Ark are coming out of the woodwork to lead the initiative for justice that Obama …
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Haiti’s Duvalier Needs Company in the Dock
The enablers of human-rights-violating regimes are free to walk the streets of New York and Washington.
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt
Medical debt and bankruptcy are uniquely American experiences among wealthy nations.
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Prison Profiteers Are Neo-Slaveholders and Solitary Is Their Weapon of Choice
Chris Hedges speaks with two longtime prisoner advocates about the shame of America's gulags.
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US Acknowledges 14 on Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Prison
Fifty-one attorneys wrote Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to intervene in ‘a serious threat to the health and life of detainees.’
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Guantanamo Hunger Strike “Potentially Life-Threatening,” Attorneys Allege in Letter to Prison Officials
The prisoners, many of whom have been cleared for release, refused food when guards started to seize their personal items, such as books, family photos, letters and legal mail.
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More to Fear Than Fear Itself: The War on Terror’s War on Human Rights
The US should head the UN human rights rapporteur's demand to release information about CIA programs under Bush.