Law
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One in 28 US Kids Has a Parent in Prison: Study (Daniel Tencer)
Oct. 1, 2010 (Raw Story) -- The United States' exceptionally high rate of incarceration is causing economic damage not only to the people behind bars but to their children and taxpayers as a whole, ...
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Global Unemployment to Trigger Further Social Unrest, UN Agency Forecasts (Julia Kollewe)
International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that social unrest has already been reported in at least 25 countries Oct. 1, 2010 (The Guardian) -- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has ...
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US Top Court Refuses to Hear Guantanamo Wiretap Case (Agence France Presse)
A member of the US military mans the guard post before sunrise at Camp Delta. (AFP) Oct. 4, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a plea by 23 ...
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War (on drugs) is over (John Sinclair)
Sept. 29, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Detroit Metro Times) -- Highest greetings from Amsterdam. My name is John Sinclair and I've been a marijuana legalization activist ever since I founded Detroit LEMAR ...
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EFF: Government Seeks Back Door Into All Our Communications (Seth Schoen)
Sept. 27, 2010 (Electronic Freedom Foundation) -- The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including ...
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The Triumph of Evil (Prof. John Kozy)
Above painting by Claudia Markovich at ClaudiaM.com Sept. 3, 2010 (Global Research) -- Modern societies have justified their adoption of criminal activities by claiming that such techniques are ...
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Labor Day and the Easter Bunny (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2010 -- Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday in America that’s come to be as meaningless as the Easter bunny. It is a holiday that ...
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Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 2, 2010 -- Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book -- or any piece of writing for that ...
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Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law (William Fisher)
Aug. 31, 2010 -- NEW YORK (Inter Press Service) -- Two of the nation's most influential human rights organisations have filed a lawsuit challenging the government's authority to carry out "targeted ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)
Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
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Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ...
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