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To Catch Government Workers With Ties to Child Porn, Call the IRS
by Lori Handrahan, Ph.D. Last week the IRS decided to award Bradley Birkenfeld his $104 million dollar share for helping bust UBS bank. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and his
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Gitmo hunger strike on rise, 15 prisoners force-fed
Days after violent clashes between guards and prisoners, the US military says a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay is on the rise as the number
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Maduro Wins Venezuelan Presidential Election with 50.66 Percent of the Vote
By CHRIS CARLSON Maracaibo, April 14th, 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Nicolas Maduro has won the Venezuelan presidential election with 50.66 percent of the vote against 49.07 percent
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Why Socialism?
by J. Bialek The spectre which once haunted Europe long ago in 1848, materialized in corporeal form in 1917 and was seemingly exorcized in 1991 has
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Cop fired for using Trayvon Martin images in target practice
A Florida policeman has been fired for using photos of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, shot and killed last year by a neighborhood watchman, for target practice.
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An Interview with North Koreans
by Stansfield Smith I recently returned from a late March trip to North Korea [Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)], along with 45 others, through
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The Nordic model is the only model that actually works. ‘Duh,’ says Sweden
By Meghan Murphy An article was published recently in The Independent looking at the Nordic model in Sweden. The journalist, Joan Smith, took a ride in a squad car to
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‘US-trained death squads’ organized torture sites across Iraq
After one year in Iraq the US government secretly enlisted retired Special Forces operatives to train Shia militia in the art of torture and other
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US Govt starts notifying Gitmo inmates’ lawyers of force-feeding
The US leadership has begun naming those Guantanamo prisoners who are being force-fed to stop them from starving to death. The prisoner hunger strike at
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