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Democracy Now! | Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
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"
more fromwww.democracynow.org
Derek Gregory
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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Broken Laws, Broken Lives » Take Action
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.
more frombrokenlives.info
ImmigrationProf Blog: From a teacher at Postville, IA On the Raids
poignant and angry first person narrative from a grade school teacher hugely affected by an immigration raid in her town
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/16/2008 | U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases
extensive 8-month journalistic investigation of US military prisoner abuse; documentation and narratives from former prisoners included
more fromwww.mcclatchydc.com
Physicians for Human Rights
important PDF documents: US torture and the medical evidence; rape in war; effect of current interrogation techniques
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
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.
more fromwww.sanders.senate.gov
What's One Less Species Between Friends? - Environment and Energy
impending mass die-off of species we don't even know about
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Obama's Chicago Boys
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.
more fromwww.thenation.com
Salon Newsreal | A joke too bad to print?
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."
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Timothy Fadek « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
links to the work of many excellent documentary photographers with notes on the context of their photos
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After Gitmo Ruling, What Next for Detainees? | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
JUSTICE
"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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The Road To Guantanamo--directed by Michael Winterbottom
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.
more fromwww.channel4.com
Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
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
more fromwww.infowars.com
US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships | World news | The Guardian
"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."
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The Guantánamo Testimonials Project — UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA)
"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."
more fromhumanrights.ucdavis.edu
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE || A SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE
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
more fromwww.sonyclassics.com
Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog
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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Nanotechnology, transhumanism and the bionic man
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."
more fromwww.nanowerk.com
How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.
more fromwww.dailymail.co.uk
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