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We broke the law, admits CIA agent convicted of rendition
In an interview earlier this year with an Italian newspaper, Mr Lady was candid about the seizure of the cleric. ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Gay-rights support stops at Cascades
The lopsided results over expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which voters overall were approving, ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights
Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Judge Finds Abusive Gitmo Interrogations Yield False Confessions, Bad Info
A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released a declassified version of a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Why women might make better judges
Justice Sonia Sotomayor's elevation to the Supreme Court brought to the surface a long-simmering controversy about ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Meaning of Freedom
The question is far from academic, as illustrated poignantly by the case of brothers Bahtiyar Mahnut and Arkin ...Posted by Elsbet Roed Brosky -
We must stop the 'vulture funds' that feed on the world's poor
Would you ever march up to a destitute African who is shivering with Aids and demand he "pay back" tens of ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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Gestapo Knocks at Door of Northwestern University Journalism School
(Blog Post) I am always offended and annoyed with the labeling of some recent conduct or person with Nazism or Hitler or ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
Jon Stewart Takes On 30 Republicans Who Voted Against Franken Rape Amendment (VIDEO)
(Video) In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Obama to Set Higher Bar For Keeping State Secrets
The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to ...via Craig Newmark -
Gay-rights support stops at Cascades
The lopsided results over expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which voters overall were approving, ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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Supreme Court Eyes Decades of Campaign Finance Laws
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to ... -
A Mugging on Lake Street
Hate crime or boredom attack, my injuries are the same. One thing about being hated, though—you have an identity. ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Fear was no excuse to condone torture
In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Campaign-spending case will be a big test for Chief Justice Roberts
The full impact of what the U.S. Supreme Court could do in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has only ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
