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02 June 2013
Drones on trial
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Nicholas Hills
Part I
The President’s recent address concerning the War on Terror as it relates to drone warfare has supposedly set the stage for a revitalized American foreign policy. Whereas drone strikes merely described the previous...
31 May 2013
Hacktivist faces 10 years in plea agreement for exposing corporate spying on human rights activists
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Gerry Bello
Hackivist Jeremy Hammond accepted a non-cooperating plea agreement Thursday, May 30 in the Stratfor case which could land him in prison for 10 years. Hammond was arrested in March 2012 for his role in the LulzSec hacking attacks on...
26 May 2013
Racism at the heart of fight among Buddhists and Muslims
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Buddhists and Muslims are clashing with increasing ferocity in Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka where minority Islamic ethnic groups blame racism by majority Buddhists more than religious intolerance.

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21 April 2013
Resolution of Re-examining Lucasville conference
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Bob Fitrakis
This weekend I chaired a conference entitled "Re-examining the Lucasville Uprising." The following is the unanimous resolution passed on the 20th anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising, the largest prison uprising in the history of the...
31 March 2013
The body sock for an autistic kid: Trickle down torture in Columbus City Schools
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Bob Fitrakis
First, we were desensitized to water-boarding at Gitmo and electrical shocks to the genitalia at Abu Ghraib. Now torture has trickled down to elementary schools in the U.S. with the “body sock” for autistic kids.

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03 March 2013
Are local Democratic Party politicians covering up for war crimes?
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Gerry Bello
In international law, there is little doubt that torture is a war crime. The United States, along with 149 other nations, has adopted the protocols of the Geneva Conventions. Despite an attempt by the Bush administration to define torture...

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