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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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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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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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In Norway, a mountain vault contains many seeds to feed the world in case of a major catastrophe; many nations contribute money and seed.

www.portfolio.com/...seed_bank - 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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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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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

www.ethicalapa.com - Preview

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progressive think tank, one of the few leftist ones in the US, with articles on many aspects of international politics

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Review of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System by Raj Patel: "... why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system."

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in vitro technique could cure inherited diseases of the mitochondria, including epilepsy; a deformed embryo was "cured" by this technique.

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Food crises in world history arose regionally from crop failures, war or pests; now there's a lack of supply everywhere at once. Like we speak of peak oil, we can speak of peak food.

articles.moneycentral.msn.com/...CouldWeReallyRunOutOfFood.aspx - Preview

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"interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies"; postcolonial, race, cultural studies theory, with a focus on the politics of everdaylife

www.darkmatter101.org/site - Preview

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Just reading this makes me feel more grounded; by Thich Nhat Hanh

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online essays by a major writer on documentary and on music; specialist also in Latin American cinema

www.mchanan.net/page3.html - Preview

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Depression era photographers

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