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- Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
- How the government will spend its discretionary monies in 2012
- Now that Mubarak is gone, Egypt is free and democratic!
- The forces of counter-revolution amass (reacting to Occupy)
- Interview of Francis Fox Piven (strategy and tactics of struggle, and Occupy Wall Street)
- The atomic bomb and Hiroshima: We had to drop it, to save American lives, right?
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Bradley Manning in court, Day One
UPDATE: This livefeed from The Guardian lucidly describes the details as the defense wraps up (12/21/11). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/dec/21/bradley-manning-hearing-live-updates For some background, see my March 2011 posts on Manning, Part One and Part Two. See also the video of the US military … Continue reading
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Hypocrisy and horror: Bradley Manning, or how the US treats its citizens
The facts about Bradley Manning’s detention, detailed below, are shocking. Manning is being held in extreme situations that easily pass the threshold for psychological torture and cruel and degrading punishment, both unlawful under US law. Let’s remind ourselves as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Bradley Manning, detention, hypocrisy, inhumane treatment, naked, prison, torture, treatment
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Bradley Manning’s torture: this is how the US treats its own citizens
Bradley Manning is suspected by the government of having handed over a Lady Gaga CD that actually contained secret government documents to an unknown party that eventually forwarded it to Wikileaks. I repeat that he is only “suspected” of having … Continue reading
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