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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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web site of cultural geographer Derek Gregory, who has available major essays about the Iraq war and how the US misleads people about ethnic conflict.

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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

lawprofessors.typepad.com/...from-a-teacher.html - Preview

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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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From Senator Bernie Sanders, who asked readers to write about what was going on in their lives economically. He received over 600 responses and it seems the middle class is not doing well.

www.sanders.senate.gov/...meetingqs.cfm - Preview

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impending mass die-off of species we don't even know about

blogs.tnr.com/...s-species-between-friends.aspx - Preview

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Obama--who taught law at the University of Chicago for a decade--is thoroughly embedded in the mind-set known as the Chicago School. Naomi Klein tells how Obama pays too much heed to free market, no regulation advisors.

www.thenation.com/...klein - Preview

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McCain made a terrible joke that newspapers would not print. It should let all women know where he stands on gender issues: " "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

www.salon.com/...25newsb.html - Preview

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links to the work of many excellent documentary photographers with notes on the context of their photos

vervephoto.wordpress.com/...timothy-fadek - Preview

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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."

www.newsweek.com/141239 - Preview

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innovative docudrama following what happened to three British youth returning to their parents' country of Pakistan, traveling to Afgahnistan, mistakenly arrested, and kept a long time in Guantanamo. An eloquent denunciation of injustice.

www.channel4.com/...guantanamo - Preview

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Official 2008 Bilderberg Participant List--check out who is going to this meeting of world power elites, fascinating to read through; they really do all get together

www.infowars.com/?p=2564 - 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."

humanrights.ucdavis.edu/...index - Preview

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site for Errol Morris film; be sure to read the book that accompanies the film, an excellent summary of US policy and practice surrounding torture

www.sonyclassics.com/standardoperatingprocedure - Preview

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major documentary filmmaker has blog for Times; always gathers extensive comments, which make the entries a compendium of ideas about documentary, info, film technique, journalism, culture, etc.

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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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Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.

www.dailymail.co.uk/...anatical-views-tore-apart.html - Preview

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