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- Ricky84 posted The persecution of Barrett Brown - and how to fight it to Community 1 month ago
Aaron's Swartz's suicide in January triggered waves of indignation, and rightly so. He faced multiple felony counts and years in prison for what were, at worst, trivial transgressions of... more
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- Ricky84 posted Obama officials refuse to say if assassination power extends to US soil to Community 3 months ago
The Justice Department "white paper" purporting to authorize Obama's power to extrajudicially execute US citizens was leaked three weeks ago. Since then, the administration -... more
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- Ricky84 posted MSNBC boldly moves to plug its one remaining hole to Community 3 months ago
Last month, MSNBC's Al Sharpton conducted a spirited debate about whether Obama belongs on Mount Rushmore or instead deserves a separate monument to his greatness (just weeks before replacing... more
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- Ricky84 posted MLK's vehement condemnations of US militarism are more relevant than ever to Community 4 months ago
The civil right achievements of Martin Luther King are quite justly the focus of the annual birthday commemoration of his legacy. But it is remarkable, as I've noted before on this holiday,... more
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- Ricky84 posted Delhi rape storm sees rush for guns to Community 5 months ago
Hundreds of women in Delhi have applied for gun licences following the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman by six men in a bus in the city last month. The news underlines the widespread... more
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- Ricky84 posted GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping to Community 5 months ago
The California Democrat's disgusting rhetoric recalls the worst of Dick Cheney while advancing Obama's agenda To this day, many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what... more
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- Ricky84 posted Zero Conscience in “Zero Dark Thirty”--Jane Mayer to Community 5 months ago
At the same time that the European Court of Human Rights has issued a historic ruling condemning the C.I.A.’s treatment of a terror suspect during the Bush years as “torture,” a... more
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- Ricky84 posted CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, European court rules to Community 5 months ago
CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on... more
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- Ricky84 posted Why stereotypes are bad even when they're 'good' to Community 5 months ago
When affirmative action and gay marriage are both dominating the headlines (on both sides of the Atlantic, in the case of gay marriage), you know that stereotypes posing as scholarship won't... more
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- Ricky84 posted Rwanda's genocide and the bloody legacy of Anglo-American guilt to Community 5 months ago
The United States is allowing one tragic foreign policy failure to compound another. Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton watched passively as the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda oversaw... more
