“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.
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Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.
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Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.
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A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter.
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Journalist Christian Parenti responds to our interview with Kevin Bales, founder of Free The Slaves
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Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Prague every night for the last week to protest the appointment of a new General Director of Czech Television. Inside, scores of journalists have been sleeping in the station since Christmas Eve to prevent management from seizing the station. They fear that the new appointment and the banning of key staff members from the premises will compromise the political independence of the station.
Today, an end of millennium conversation with two giants of literature and politics. Perhaps more than any other living photographer, Sabastiao Salgado’s images of the world’s poor stand in tribute to the human condition. He defines his work as militant photography.