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While Troy Davis is Left to Die, Rapist & Murderer Army Recruiter has Third Stay of Execution
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former Army recruiter who for the third time this year was hours away from his scheduled execution for the rape-slaying of a woman in Fort Worth nearly 10 years ago was granted yet another reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. Cleve Foster, 47, was set to die Tuesday…
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After Winning Global Support, Troy Davis Loses Clemency Bid
A Georgia parole board Tuesday denied clemency for Troy Davis, a death row inmate who garnered global support for his claims of innocence. His execution is scheduled for Wednesday night. After hearing exhaustive pleas both from Troy Davis supporters and the family of the man he killed, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied…
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HPV Vaccine: The Science Behind The Controversy
by Richard Knox The first vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer, came out five years ago. But now it has become a hot political topic, thanks to a Republican presidential debate in which candidate Michele Bachmann inveighed against “innocent little 12-year-old girls” being “forced to have a government injection.” Behind the…
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Review: “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis
In our “democratic” society, we have been taught that, while everyone is entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” there are those who do not deserve the same “rights” to which we are all supposedly entitled. The exception is, of course, grounded within a moral perspective. “Bad people” those who break laws, who…
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Karl Marx Voted Greatest Thinker of the Millennium
Marx took the top spot by a wide margin followed by Einstein, Newton, and Darwin, in second, third and fourth places. Revolutionary writer Karl Marx has topped a BBC News Online poll to find the greatest thinker of the millennium. The nineteenth century writer won September’s vote with a clear margin, pushing Albert Einstein, who…
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Anti-Black Racism Among Libyan Rebels
“the brigade for purging slaves, black skin” – slogan seen painted in rebel country Michael McGehee wrote in Victims of a Civil War, Z Magazine, April 5: Libya, located in northern Africa, has a majority Arab population. It also has a racism problem. In a country of over 6 million people where a third of…
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Black Slaves, Freedmen Risked Their Lives to Work As Union Spies During the Civil War
Freed slaves became spies They were made invisible by the color of their skin. They could not be seen because their enemy was blinded by ignorance. Federal troops sent African Americans, former slaves, into the Confederate breach to capture information and pass it forward. (AP) WASHINGTON — In the Confederate circles he navigated, John Scobell…
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Remembering Chile’s 9/11
By Paul Street “Close to Perfect:” A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes flew low over an American nation’s leading city. Buildings erupted in flames. There was an official death toll of more than 3,000. Thousands of innocent people were ruthlessly slaughtered. Their…
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Operation Torture
Ten Years On by VIJAY PRASHAD “No state shall expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” United Nations Convention Against Torture (art. 3-1, 1984). Twenty years ago, in the Punjabi countryside I sat on…
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