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18 October 2010
Then they came for me
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Robert Koehler
Speaking out a year ago against the idea of holding civilian trials for terrorism suspects, Liz Cheney captured the paranoid arrogance of the past decade with stunning efficiency:
“This demonstrates conclusively that we are going...
26 September 2010
Inspector General criticism doesn't faze FBI raids on midwestern anti-war activists
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Coleen Rowley, War Is A Crime.org
The war on dissent, rather than terrorism, continued full steam with FBI SWAT teams breaking down doors at 7 am Friday (Sept 24) morning and raiding the homes of several anti-war leaders and activists in Minneapolis, Chicago and possibly a...
26 September 2010
Sex change operations in Thailand
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Using a penis to create a vagina is relatively easy, compared to the surgical difficulty of constructing a penis with a clitoris.

Thailand's most famous transgender surgeon, Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon,...
21 August 2010
Help Save Kevin Keith's Life in Ohio
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National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
This is it. We have only days to save an innocent man's life. Yesterday, the Ohio Parole Board made a nonbinding, advisory recommendation to Governor Strickland that Kevin Keith should be executed, but the Parole Board's own findings do...
12 August 2010
Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for meaning in a refugee camp
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Ramzy Baroud
Beirut, Lebanon - Two young girls stood, as if frozen, starting below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and most of their refugee camp was of an indistinct color. It was dirty, as were their...
09 August 2010
Buddhist "Body Snatchers" collect Bangkok's dead and dying
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Fearless body snatchers careen through traffic, with sirens blaring and lights flashing, to morbid disaster sites where they seize fresh human corpses to pack in mustard-colored coffins for yet another profitable...

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