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A government subcontractor who has spent over four years imprisoned in Cuba should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over lost wages and legal fees, his attorney told an appeals…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange compares Google to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as well as the British spy agency, GCHQ.
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This week, two staunch defenders of the U.S. embargo against Cuba came out against isolationism and in favor of expanding global trade.
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The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway to influence the real world.
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The envelope contained 10 pages, three of them the cover letter and boilerplate on Appeals Procedures, on the off chance I wanted to wait another four years for a further answer.
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Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of IS. Shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors?
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Kids as young as 12 report illness from working in tobacco fields. Why isn’t the government doing anything about it?
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The American middle class especially has been slowly bleeding out for at least a generation. That process has been accelerating in recent decades, especially during Republican rule but…
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How's this for a juxtaposition on how nations respond to a global health catastrophe. Check out these two headlines from yesterday's news
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When the Cubans landed on U.S. shores, there were no protests in Michigan or California calling for the government to ship them back home, as we've seen in recent weeks in response to…
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