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Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur report on Guantanamo
On June 26—the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture—the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, released the final report of her technical visit to the United States, which included unprecedented access to the Guantanamo detention facility.
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Oklahoma official instructs teachers to say Tulsa Massacre not racial
An Oklahoma state official is facing impeachment calls following his statement that urged teachers to cover the 1921 massacre but not “say that the skin color determined it”.
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British intelligence in the dock for CIA torture
Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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The fires that burn in France are about its colonial legacy
France never really came to terms with its colonial heritage or its colonial mindset.
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Caged, stripped, beaten: Latest ‘Save the Children’ report on Palestine makes chilling read
According to a just-released report by the international rights organization, Save the Children, four out of five Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system are beaten and 69 per cent are strip-searched.
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Black liberation organizers across the U.S. reflect on the passing of Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Shakur was a prisoner-of-war of a decades-long Black liberation struggle for 37 years. He was only released when he was months away from death.
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Cambodian Premier reminds Ukraine of the horrors of cluster bombs
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen recalls Cambodia’s “painful experience” with U.S.-dropped cluster munitions in the 1970s, which continue to cause casualties to this date.
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Healing the wounds of War in Vietnam
From 1964 to 1973, the United States released 6,162,000 tons of bombs and other ordnance in Indochina, far greater than the combined amount during the Second World War and the Korean War.
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No justice, no peace in France
“Tout le monde deteste la police!”—Everyone hates the police—was chanted at demonstrations and riots across France last week.
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‘The gravity of the situation cannot be overstated’: an eyewitness account from the Israeli assault on Jenin
As the occupation relentlessly tightens its grip on the Jenin refugee camp, the message is crystal clear–punish the stronghold of popular resistance. But they will not succeed and will only breed a new generation to carry the torch.
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Human suffering worsens in DRC, the heart of Africa
A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
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OceanGate and how the wealthy kill
The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it.
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A deeply misleading narrative
A Deeply Misleading Narrative: Answering the Claims of Cedric Robinson’s ‘Black Marxism’.
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Journalist Randy Credico has been placed on Ukrainian terrorist “kill-list” via CIA project website
Friends are urging Credico to go underground.
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Habermas and the war in Ukraine
The prevailing rarefied ideological climate that Germany and most European countries are suffering from today makes a very cautious call for prudence and negotiation a criminal offense that deserves to be punished with ostracism.
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Late night thoughts from a dialectical transfeminist
An economy of representation has done folks like Jordan Neely and Banko Brown an incredible disservice. TERFs have seized upon their deaths to justify carceral deputization among non-police actors, triangulating their respective forms of manhood and their overall embodiments with a threat to public safety and to asset protection.
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Dark history: How the U.S. experimented on its own people
For years, government-related institutes have experimented on their own citizens, mainly minorities, to serve their own interests. Infamous and not entirely disclosed, here are some of the most unethical operations done by the U.S. on its own people and soil.
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Argentina: Repression against indigenous people in Jujuy (+human rights in Venezuela)
Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.
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On the fundamental rights of the sex workers and others in India
It is for about one and a half decades now that our Sex Workers are raising the issues related to their lack of professional, legal and social rights before the members of the Other Sections of our society.
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Two episodes at sea: The submersible Titan and hundreds of refugees drowned in the Mediterranean
It is inevitable that such an event, in which there is a race against time and the elements, should attract the interest and concern of tens of millions.