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Interview with Greg Grandin, whose book is a good follow up to Naomi Klein's "The Shock Docrtine"; he sees US intervention in Latin America as the "workshop" that comes into fruition in Iraq policy and the "war on terror"

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Rigorous clinical evaluations confirm the torture inflicted for months by US personnel on 11 detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Read reports and sign Physicians for Human Rights petition to US government.

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poignant and angry first person narrative from a grade school teacher hugely affected by an immigration raid in her town

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extensive 8-month journalistic investigation of US military prisoner abuse; documentation and narratives from former prisoners included

www.mcclatchydc.com/...38775.html - Preview

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important PDF documents: US torture and the medical evidence; rape in war; effect of current interrogation techniques

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"As the Supreme Court delivered another blow to the Bush administration's Guantánamo Bay detentions of terror suspects, a lawyer for some of the suspects looks at where we go from here."

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CO2 emissions may be causing an increase in plant growth, making environmental and global warming debate more complex.

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a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that's not theirs

www.latimes.com/...la29-2008may29,0,2094982.story - Preview

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"The US is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees."

www.guardian.co.uk/...usa.humanrights - Preview

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"The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity."

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athletic enhancements, diagnostic refinements, bionic disease cures or stabilization--these may cause a class divide in the near future; well written essay; need for "ability studies," not just "disability studies."

www.nanowerk.com/...spotid=5848.php - Preview

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law blog with news and legal opinions on activism against torture, especially by US; links

blogs.law.harvard.edu/stoptorture - Preview

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Valtin, psychologist and key writer in anti-torture activism in US, has own blog here and also on DailyKos, where he details fights inside American Psychological Association against its current stance.

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chilling report about 2002 conference FBI held with behavioral psychologists, prefiguring much of US interrogration practice to come

www.dailykos.com/...7870 - Preview

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extensive set of web links on torture; international; kept up to date

www.newsnow.co.uk/...Torture - Preview

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protest site for those appalled by APA policy statement that did not condemn psychologists' working to construct interrogation techniques at Guantanamo or for CIA; a large political movement in US, related also to medical participation in Holocaust

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"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court. "

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a blog for people who see radio as a means for creative expression; good links to other art audio bloggers

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a cogent argument for an important cause; given the international reach of the Internet, anyone concerned for the spread of knowledge should make their writing available free to as many people as possible

www.zephoria.org/...openaccess_is_t.html - Preview

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great short essay by John Berger, including a discussion of why still be a marxist.

www.orionmagazine.org/...307 - Preview

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