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U.S. Justice: Is The Joke On You?

By Tom Sullivan On August 10, 2012  

Here’s a neat get-out-of-jail trick. The secret is it doesn’t usually work for ordinary crimes by flesh-and-blood people — for smoking marijuana or selling food stamps for rent money, for example. No, those people we warehouse in taxpayer-funded Corrections Corporation of America for-profit prisons. This trick works best for those who have turned [...]

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On social democracy, that inexplicably unmentionable phrase that truly embodies the spirit of We, the People

By Deborah Newell Tornello On June 14, 2011  


This is one of those instances where even typing something out does little to make it more believable: Delta charges soldiers returning home from Afghanistan an additional luggage fee of $200 each (they are allowed three checked pieces, but as you’d imagine, members of our armed forces have [...]

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Spanish High Court Rules Torture Case Against US Can Proceed

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

Spain’s highest court ruled that a controversial case against US officials for authorizing the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay could proceed, rejecting an attempt by a Spanish prosecutor to end the investigation. The decision is a major victory for human rights activists, and a blow to the US government.

According to a cable released [...]

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Waging a war on three fronts

By Aaron Krager On February 25, 2011  

My partner and I love doing the usual things together – going to the movies, running, dinning out and whole host of things. Really too many to list out. We also share a deep and abiding faith in social justice.

Our discussions on politics and causes can last for hours if we let them. [...]

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Union-Busting Is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft

By Joshua Holland On February 25, 2011  

Like all progressives, we obsess on the quest for good ‘framing’ quite a bit around here (when I lived in DC, even the cabbies and doormen were reading Lakoff).

So, here’s a frame. Over at AlterNet, I have a feature up arguing that labor markets only work when workers can bargain collectively. As it stands, [...]

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Issue of Pay for Bloggers Bigger Than Just Arianna’s Windfall

By Russ Wellen On February 23, 2011  

The term “citizen journalism” is not an excuse to withhold pay from bloggers. The Huffington Post has never even made a token attempt at figuring out how to pay bloggers.

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