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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

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A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

A Cruel Truce: Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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UN Condemns USA for undermining Torture Convention, Calls for Prosecutions

UN Condemns USA for undermining Torture Convention, Calls for Prosecutions

By Thalif Deen | — UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 2014 (IPS) – The timing was inadvertently impeccable as two stinging reports on harsh interrogation techniques […]

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Apartheid
Ferguson on the Jordan: Israeli Soldier Beats Palestinian Cabinet Minister to Death at Tree Planting Ceremony

Ferguson on the Jordan: Israeli Soldier Beats Palestinian Cabinet Minister to Death at Tree Planting Ceremony

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The head of the Palestinian Authority committee against the separation wall and settlements died Wednesday after Israeli soldiers assaulted him in a […]

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Egypt
Israel, Egypt Implicated in Torture: Middle East Reactions to Senate Report lament own Involvement

Israel, Egypt Implicated in Torture: Middle East Reactions to Senate Report lament own Involvement

By Juan Cole | — That the release in Washington of a dense 450 page report on CIA torture conducted a decade ago would provoke […]

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Displaced and Refugees
West Only has Money for Bombs?  60,000 Child Laborers in Jordan as Syrian Refugees struggle to Survive

West Only has Money for Bombs? 60,000 Child Laborers in Jordan as Syrian Refugees struggle to Survive

AMMAN | (IRIN) | – Jordan is straining under the weight of its over 600,000 Syrian refugees, with government officials and aid agencies warning of […]

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Bill of Rights
Psychologists, who Took $81 mn. to Advise, Practice Torture, betrayed the Profession

Psychologists, who Took $81 mn. to Advise, Practice Torture, betrayed the Profession

By Laurence Alison, University of Liverpool During the War on Terror, the CIA’s operations subjected hundreds of suspected terrorists to harsh interrogation techniques, which were […]

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National Security State
McCain on Torture:  A Stain on our National Honor, Produces Misleading Info

McCain on Torture: A Stain on our National Honor, Produces Misleading Info

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) | — Candidate for the best American speech of this decade: “As the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report roiled Capitol […]

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Climate Change
In Record, Scientists double Solar Panel Efficiency to 40%

In Record, Scientists double Solar Panel Efficiency to 40%

Via UNSW Newsroom | — UNSW’s solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever […]

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Why the Founding Fathers thought banning Torture Foundational to the US Constitution

Why the Founding Fathers thought banning Torture Foundational to the US Constitution

By Juan Cole | — I have argued on many occasions that the language of patriotism and appeal to the Founding Fathers and the constitution […]

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
Climate Change and Yemen's Agony

Climate Change and Yemen’s Agony

By Juan Cole | (The Nation) — From “Why Is Yemen So Violent? Because It Is So Poor and Thirsty” . Answer: “Yemen’s troubles are […]

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