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Mass Voter Suppression

samedi 8 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Trump's Next Attack on Democracy: Mass Voter Suppression.

The Republicans have been doing this for years, of course, and expanded it for 2016.

The numbers affected in Wisconsin were enough to alter the outcome there.

Veli Saçilik

samedi 8 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Veli Saçilik has been arrested 17 times for peaceful protests in Turkey. On one occasion the prison thugs cut off his arm but that didn't stop him. Now Erdogan has accused him of being a member of a terrorist group.

When governments arbitrarily designate groups as "terrorist" with no need to prove it, any group could be unjustly labeled that way. Perhaps Professor Saçilik is guilty of being a member of a "terrorist organization" which isn't terrorist. People can be convicted unjustly in that way even in the US.

To designate an organization as "terrorist" is fundamentally unjust without a trial to determine whether it really is one.

Syria's 'Disappeared'

samedi 8 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Syria's 'Disappeared': Families Demand to Know Fate of Their Loved Ones.

Waking from coma

samedi 8 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Some people, after months in a coma, wake up from a long dream that was more realistic than ordinary dreams.

Troll's Sabotage of Environmental Rules

samedi 8 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The troll's sabotage of environmental rules is certain to kill thousands of Americans.

Its consequences some decades in the future could easily kill billions.