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David Barsamian interviews Vandana Shiva  (more…)

Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books

Early this April, when researchers at Washington University in St. Louis reported that a woman with a host of electrodes temporarily positioned over the speech center of her brain was able to move a computer cursor on a screen simply by thinking but not pronouncing certain sounds (more…)

Chris Hedges Truthdig 6/13/11

In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. (more…)

Daniel Ellsberg Guardian U.K. 6/13/11

While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth (more…)

Reed professor Darius Rajali is a leading authority on why states and police use torture–even though it doesn’t work

Martha Gies

On their way to a grocery store, Rejali noticed a front-page story blaring from the Washington Post newspaper box: “U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations.” (more…)

Pilger Film Banned by Lannan Foundation

An open letter from John Pilger to Noam Chomsky and the general public (more…)

Greg Gandin The Nation 6/07/11

Add Peru to the list of Latin American countries that have turned left. On Sunday, Peruvians voted in a second-round run-off ballot and elected Ollanta Humala, a 48-year-old former army officer, president.  (more…)

By Michael Mears The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Last month, the United States Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in the case of Kentucky v. King, told the police in our nation that they may break into a home without a warrant if they believe that the occupants might be in the act of destroying evidence.  (more…)