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Chelsea Manning is free at last
May 18, 2017While Manning is “fortunate” enough to have received a commutation of her crushing 35-year jail sentence, she has still spent seven long years behind bars.
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Terror and torture: The spiral of endless war
November 21, 2016The contradiction of "the war on terror": the means used to fight it are effective recruiting devices for terrorists themselves.
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War crimes on the Northern Plains: #NoDAPL
October 28, 2016There are reports of demonstrators being hooded; waterboarding; young Native females arrested and strip searched.
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This week in history: International Day of the Disappeared
August 29, 2016The international day was created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives.
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Black comedy “Armadillo Necktie” exposes open wound of U.S. in Iraq
June 24, 2016A new self-described "jet-black comedy" takes on the national American character at the apogee of its foreign "nation building" enterprise.
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Narratives from the 2015 Toronto Film Festival
October 19, 2015As mentioned in a previous column, documentaries are not always more truthful that fiction films.
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“All American Girl” asks "who will save the children?"
July 22, 2015This play follows Katie, a bright and attractive girl committed to rescuing innocents from hardship and poverty, as she evolves into a passionate extremist.
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Memorial for 3 Muslim students calls for end to hate, ignorance
February 19, 2015There were calls for unity to end hate and bigotry in all forms for the three slain Muslim students slain in Chapel Hill, N.C. last week.
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Only tackling the root causes can end the cycle of violence
January 08, 2015Only a sharp turn to peace and non-violence stands a ghost's chance of extricating humankind from this awful and seemingly intractable situation.
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"Sarajevo": Saga of 1914 joins ranks of great pacifist films
June 27, 2014Like Oliver Stone in JFK, Sarajevo's director Andreas Prochaska and writer Martin Ambrosch have created a counter-narrative to the official version of why the archduke was shot.
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