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"A Line in the Sand" in Fight to Release Thousands of Photos of Prisoner Abuse
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can’t release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A Real American Sniper Weighs In On The Film That Has Us All In Iron Sights
Listening to Garett Reppenhagen describe how he felt the first time he shot someone is like listening to an addict talk about their first time injecting heroin.
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PEGIDA movement spreads across Europe, stirring anti-immigrant sentiment
Galvanized by the Paris attack, the anti-Islamic movement PEGIDA is swiftly spreading across Western Europe.
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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter
Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.
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Enough Police Bullying: Stop the NYPD Coup
Police need to feel empowered so they don't fear speaking up when they see misbehavior by their colleagues.
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Germany’s Islamophobes: A Social Movement or Flash Mob?
Protesters are united by more than blind hatred for Islam.
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The college trap that keeps people poor
The path from poverty to the middle class has changed — now, it runs through higher education.
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The U.S. and Cuba are Now on Equal Terms for the First Time in Generations
For most of the half-century since the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations, Washington fought a war of economic attrition that affected millions.
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How Fear Of Occupy Wall Street Undermined the Red Cross's Sandy Relief Effort
Red Cross responders say there was a ban on working with the widely praised Occupy Sandy relief group because it was seen as politically unpalatable.
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A Vietnam War Widow Battles Foreclosure Fraud
Over 700 foreclosures were conducted against active-duty service members by Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup.
