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6 hrs ago | Daily Kos

A monitored human being is not a free human being

A monitored human being is not a free human being. And every state that systematically contravenes human rights, even in the alleged service of security, is acting criminally.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Liberal Political News

10 hrs ago | Examiner.com

The real world leaves little room for joy in 'Thumbprint'

"Thumbprint" is a dark story set in our own real lackluster world as an emotionally troubled army veteran returns home after her time in Iraq.

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19 hrs ago | Indy Media

Starved of Justice in Iraq: American Prisoner on Hunger Strike

This is an article written by Narmeen Al Rubaye about an Iraqi man who remains in prison in Baghdad for the last 10 years who is currently on hunger strike, and whose wife who gained asylum in the UK in 2006 remains with their child separated from him.

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Related Topix: Prison, Iraq, World News, Middle East,

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Daily Kos

Open thread for night owls: 'Twas the War Before Christmas

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced on Monday that she was writing a book filled with "legalese" about how to fight what some social conservatives call the "War on Christmas."

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Related Topix: US Governors, Sarah Palin, Recipes, Activism, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Carl Levin, Democrat, Liberal Political News

Wed Jun 12, 2013

Examiner.com

Comic book review of Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella's 'Thumbprint' #1

The powerhouse duo of writer Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella are back with "Thumbprint", a brand new IDW series based on Hill's own short story first published back in 2012.

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Related Topix: 2012, Gliese Games, Video Games

Tue Jun 11, 2013

Foreign Policy

Control+Freedom+Delete - By David Rothkopf

For a generation of Americans, it is hard to imagine a tragedy more gut-wrenching than the slow-motion horrors we watched on the morning of September 11, 2001.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

CNN

Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data Emerge

In March 2006 four US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gang raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family -including a 5 year old child.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military, US Army

Common Dreams

An American Awakening to the Addiction of War

The recent NSA revelations of widespread surveillance on American citizens should be cause for intense protest.

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Related Topix: US News, Patriot Act, US Military Prisons, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Liberal Political News

Daily Kos

Chase Madar: Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6

Okay, give them this much: their bloodlust stops just short of the execution chamber door.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Osama bin Laden, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US Military, US Air Force

NewsBusters.org

Video You Won't See in Media: Senator Obama Debates President Obama on Surveillance

Sometimes, video can really clarify things like nothing else. You'll likely agree after watching the video below featuring presidential candidate and inexperienced Illiniois Senator Barack Obama discuss the issue of surveillance as practiced by the George W. Bush Administration compared to what now-president Obama has to say about the same subject ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Illinois, Illinois Government, George Bush, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Sun Jun 09, 2013

Daily Kos

Some Dare Call it Torture.

A room the size of a bathroom. No windows, no natural light, constant illumination.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, California, California Government, Pelican Bay State Prison, State Prisons

NJ.com

U.S. can't remain in denial of torture: Opinion

Meticulously documented, the report comes to nearly 600 pages of hard-hitting and detailed analysis.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Sat Jun 08, 2013

OpEdNews

The Burden of Education on Students Grows but It Shouldn't

Economic advance requires many levels of investment; such as increased private savings, the construction of modern infrastructure, and the resumption of commodity production.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Liberal Political News

Fri Jun 07, 2013

Northwest Florida Daily News

Airman's retirement leaves only 6 siblings in the Air Force - for now

With seven of nine siblings being active-duty airmen stationed all over the world, it's hard to organize a reunion.

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Related Topix: US Military, US News, US Air Force, World News, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, US National Guard, January

MacLeans

Staring war criminals in the face

The genius of this unsettlingly brilliant book lies in its endless circles of irony, its assertion that harm-or at least potentially harmful paradox-lies in every approach we can take to wartime atrocities.

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Mon Jun 03, 2013

Berkeley Daily Planet

Eclectic Rant: Can the U.S. Claim Victory in Iraq?

Following the withdrawal of combat forces from Iraq in December 2011, can the U.S. claim victory or did the Obama administration adopt the face-saving solution of "Just declare victory and get out," a position proposed by the late Senator George Akin of Vermont at the end of the Vietnam war? What does victory mean and why did the U.S. invade and ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Fri May 31, 2013

Pravda

Syria: No wonder France and the UK were getting desperate

France and the UK , the poodle side of the alliance with the US , this week bullied their European Union partners into accepting a status quo in which bthe European Union disintegrates as a Union and each one goes it alone in terms of supplying the Syrian terrorists.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Opinion

Thu May 30, 2013

Mediaite.com

Tom Brokaw: Obama's Scandals Aren't As Big As Watergate, Iran-Contra, Or Even Abu Ghraib

NBC Newsman Tom Brokaw dismissed the significance of the various scandals surrounding President Barack Obama 's White House on Thursday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Television

Al Jazeera

Dozens killed in Baghdad blasts

Multiple bomb blasts have struck two neighbourhoods in Iraq's capital Baghdad, killing at least 28 people, including several members of a wedding party.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Wedding

Wed May 29, 2013

Pravda

Syria: The choice is simple: a secular Syria or chaos?

Looking at Libya, we can see Syria. Looking at what the west did in Iraq, we can see what side not to choose; looking at the proliferation of western concentration camps from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay and hearing their hypocrisy about human rights and freedom, we can read between the lines.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, World News, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Opinion