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19 January 2012
2012's civil liberties apocalypse has already happened
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Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman
In case you missed it, President Barack Obama has signed a death knell for the Bill of Rights. It's a hell of a way to begin a year many believe will mark the end of the world.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
18 January 2012
Steve Cannon, a blind poet and arts patron faces eviction
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Gerard Flynn
"One of the worst things about being blind is that you gotta trust people," said Steve Cannon recently on his couch at A Gathering of the Tribes, an alternative salon and performance space on the Lower East Side.

Cannon was...
05 January 2012
The new CHAOS, COINTELPRO and the Occupy movement
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Bob Fitrakis
As activists and journalists debate whether Homeland Security and the CIA are actively involved in the recent domestic crackdown on the Occupy movement, evidence mounts that the progressive populist movement is being targeted by COINTELPRO...
29 December 2011
Extraordinary interview: In love with tortured man -- Indefinite imprisonment, torture, terror inside California prisons through eyes of woman of courage
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Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner
When Kendra Castaneda’s beloved faced torture in solitary confinement, his beloved, a regular, Californian suburban, young woman would have never guessed that only nine months later, she would be an Examiner.com “Inspiring Americans Award...
28 December 2011
Palestine: Those who inspired us in 2011
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Ramzy Baroud
Mustafa Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome face.

In December 2009, when an Israeli soldier shot him from a short...
25 December 2011
Burma frees a comedian to travel to America
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's most famous dissident comedian, who survived "electronic shock" torture during eight years in prison, has been allowed out of his Southeast Asian country for the first time and is traveling to the Clinton...

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