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The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired By Glenn Greenwald
For more than six months, Wired’s Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed — but refuses to publish — the key evidence in one of the year’s most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks’ source. In late May, Adrian Lamo — at the same time he… Continue reading
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Child Inmates Crowded Into Haiti's Dangerous Post-Quake Prisons By Alice Speri
Suze is the youngest of 58 minors currently incarcerated in Port-au-Prince’s penitentiaries, held next to adult inmates, with no trial and in degrading conditions, Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) denounced last month. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 July, 2010: Center alleges medical experiments in Israeli prison
28 July, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinians likely to reject direct talks IMEMC – 28 Jul 2010 – Wednesday July 28, 2010 – 17:37, Abbas is likely to tell the Arab League that he is rejecting direct negotiations at least until the period allotted indirect negotiations formally ends. Israel won’t Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 May, 2010: Israeli nuclear whistleblower returned to prison for 3-month sentence
23 May 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli nuclear whistleblower returned to prison for 3-month sentence IMEMC – 23 May 2010 – Mordechai Vanunu, Israel’s nuclear whistleblower who served 18 years in prison for exposing Israel’s secret nuclear weapons production facility in Dimona, was taken back to prison Sunday after requesting Continue reading
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“My Hell in an Israeli Jail”: Israel Prison Population 90 Percent Black Africans By Voice Online, UK
It should come as no surprise that a settler state based on the rule of one ethnic group would be steeped in racist public policies. But the sheer scope of Israel’s institutional oppression of Africans shocked human rights activists imprisoned for attempting to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. ‘The first day I was… Continue reading
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Another ‘War on Terrorism’ Victim: Daniel McGowan By Stephen Lendman
Fronting for corporate America, right wing groups like the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Wise Use, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and their lobbyists and PR flacks claim otherwise in their relentless war on the greens, backed by federal and state authorities calling saving the earth `eco-terrorism` and managing to get activists like Daniel… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life www.killinghope.org How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News. Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports. Continue reading
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Why I’m a closet Anarchist By William Bowles
Last night there was a TV doccie on a man who had been falsely accused of murder and had spent 25 years in jail, 13 of them because he refused to admit that he was guilty. He finally won his appeal against wrongful conviction last year. But in a sense winning his appeal resulted in… Continue reading
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