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Obama on Weed
“The war on drugs has been an utter failure. (W)e need to rethink and decriminalize our (nation’s) marijuana laws.” -Barack Obama, January 2004 (Watch the video here.) “I inhaled frequently, that was the point.”
Read More »Iraqi shoe thrower vows never to apologize to Bush, family says
Shoe-throwing journalist Muntather Zaidi told his family he would never apologize to President Bush for hurling his footwear at the American leader, even if he is chopped into pieces, his brother said after visiting
Read More »Londoners protest against ‘Police Brutality and State Terrorism’
A call for world-wide solidarity actions against state terrorism had come from those occupying the Polytechnic University in Athens, who linked their struggle to that of others around the world, “zero tolerance and repressive
Read More »Hunger mounts in the US
By Tom Eley As the economic crisis deepens, its human toll is becoming more evident. A new survey of food charities in the United States has revealed a dramatic increase in hunger.
Read More »Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes
Commondreams Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process
Read More »One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe
By Robert Fisk Editor’s note: This article was originally printed in The Independent. A nit-picker this week. And given the fact that we’re all remembering human rights, the Palestinians come to mind since they
Read More »Deterring Torture Through the Law
By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern “First, let’s kill all the lawyers” may have made sense in that Shakespearian scene, but there is a far simpler solution to the legal ambiguities regarding what to
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