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Friday, July 19, 2002
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New Report Reveals Latinos Are Incarcerated for Drug Offenses at Thirteen Times the Rate of White Youth
And, a new report shows that Latino and Latina youth are incarcerated for drug offenses at thirteen times the rate of white youth.
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150 Nigerian Women End Their Unprecedented Peaceful Protest Against Chevron, Winning Major Concessions
Over 150 Nigerian women ended their peaceful protest against Chevron in Escravos today. Fifteen women were arrested.
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Valium, Hallucinogens, Anti-Depressants, and Chemical Cocktails: A New Report Details the Pentagon’s Plans for a Psychopharmacological Arsenal for Use in the U.S.
In a 1971 book called "The Futurological Congress," Polish writer Stanislaw Lem portrayed a future in which disobedience is controlled with hypothetical mind-altering chemicals he dubbed "benignimizers". In the opening scene of the book, police attack protesters outside an international scientific convention with hallucinogenic agents. As the protesters and bystanders are saturated with the agents, they are overcome by delusions and feelings of complacency and love.
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Justice Department Secretly Charters An Airlift to Deport 131 Pakistanis Imprisoned for Months
According to United Press International, South Asian diplomats say the U.S. is planning to deport scores of Pakistanis. According to the report, the diplomats said the names of 70 detainees to be sent back to Pakistan had already been finalized and there was a list of another 124 to 200 probable names. The diplomats say none had any apparent links to terrorism. Most have been detained for overstaying their visas or other immigration infractions. The report says 24 Pakistanis had been arrested over one recent 48 hour period in Atlanta alone.
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As Ahmad Omar Sayeed Sheikh Appeals His Death Sentence for Murder of Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl, a Look at Sayeed Sheik’s Links to the Pakistani Intelligence Service
The lawyer for Ahmad Omar Sayeed Sheikh asked a Pakistani provincial court today to overturn his client’s conviction and death sentence in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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