President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
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Retaliation Campaign in Turkey As Erdogan Punishes Protesters
In the aftermath of the Gezi Park protests that rocked Istanbul and spread last month across Turkey, activists are being locked up, journalists bullied and demonstrators persecuted.
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Tunisian Assassination Brings Thousands Into the Streets
Mohammed Brahmi, a leading member of the National Constituent Assembly and the Popular Movement — the same coalition as Chokri Belaid, who was killed in February — was riddled with bullets on Thursday outside his home.
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Hundreds March to Save Brooklyn's LICH Hospital
In Brooklyn on Wednesday, hundreds took part in mock funeral services for local healthcare that ended in multiple arrests.
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Revealed: Leaked Report Shows High Civilian Death Toll from CIA Drone Strikes
The secret Pakistani document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism describes 147 civilian deaths, much higher than the U.S. administration has admitted to.
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Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs
Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.
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America's Legacy of Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin
Decades of white retrenchment led up to the moment that a bullet pierced Trayvon Martin’s heart -- and no matter what the prosecution, the defense, the jury or the defenders of George Zimmerman may think, racism was pivotal in his killing.
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California Prison Hunger Strike Is A Call for Justice
On July 8, nearly 30,000 prisoners across the state began a third hunger strike, which may end up being the largest and longest in California's history.
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Justice Denied: Is Trayvon Martin Post-Racial America's Emmett Till?
Today, we all know that Emmett Till’s 1955 murder and the denial of justice to him and his family was the product of racism. As Trayvon Martin’s killing illustrates, colorblindness hasn’t brought us closer to a place where color no longer matters.
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Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
The goal of the corporate state is to criminalize democratic, popular dissent before there is another popular eruption.
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Zimmerman's Acquittal and the Call for a New Civil Rights Movement
We must mobilize and organize to assert popular power independent of the courts and corporate political parties if we are to create a world where Trayvon, and the millions he has come to represent, can thrive without fear.
