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Clergy call for end to torture in California prisons (with video)
August 9, 2013In a groundbreaking report to the UN Human Rights Council, Juan Méndez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, found that solitary confinement can amount to cruel, inhuman punishment - and even torture.
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Thousands shut down Chicago streets at ALEC meeting
August 9, 2013The demonstrators say ALEC is hurting just about everyone in America who is not part of the top one percent.
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The White House and “Cold War mentality”
August 9, 2013President Obama told a Tonight Show audience Aug. 6 that there are times the Russians "slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality."
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The annual budget kabuki is not kabuki this year
August 8, 2013For the past several years the winter months in Washington have been consumed in political showdowns over the federal budget.
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Documents expose new ALEC scheme to kill clean energy
August 8, 2013"It is clear ALEC is working in secret to push state policies in an extreme right direction, but working families are standing up to this agenda."
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