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I haven’t done anything wrong

…U.S. and overseas without a judge’s approval when a link to al Qaeda is suspected. The NSA’s enterprise involves a cluster of powerful intelligence-gathering programs, all of which sparked civil-liberties…

What are we going to do now? Your choice.

Civil War produced thousands of wandering veterans. Frequently addicted to morphine, they were known as “tramps,” searching for jobs and, in many cases, literally still tending their wounds. More than…

Free Trade vs the World Bank

…results of societies efforts to improve it’s self as a society (making us better people). It is legal, it is education. It is civil rights, it is (or was here)…

Potential fizzle of WTO GATS?

…so-called Millennium Round in 1999 in Seattle, this current round of negotiations was launched in Doha, Qatar in 2001. A second ministerial collapsed amidst massive civil society protests in September…

Qwest for the truth

…he might do it if they could find a way to do it legally,” the filing said. Mike German, policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the documents…

Pinochio becomes a real boy?

civil tort plaintiffs had in suing Ford for failing to spend $13 per car to strengthen a gas tank known to be vulnerable to rear- end collisions, few learn that,…