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John Pilger

The High Court in London will soon to decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. At the appeal hearing in July, Ben Emmerson QC, counsel for the defence, described the whole saga as “crazy”. Sweden’s chief prosecutor had dismissed the original arrest warrant, saying there was no case for Assange to answer. (more…)

Robert Applebaum Guardian.U.K.

For the first time in history, total student loan debt recently surpassed total credit card debt in the US: current and former students collectively owe approximately $946bn in student loan debt, with no sign of this accumulation slowing down. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon

So a panel operating out of the White House – that meets in total secrecy, with no known law or rules governing what it can do or how it operates – is empowered to place American citizens on a list to be killed by the CIA (more…)

Andy Kroll Counterpunch

Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College grads moving back in with their parents. The angry and disillusioned filling the streets. (more…)

Spencer Ackerman Wired

FBI intelligence analysts weren’t the only ones teaching their colleagues that the U.S. is at war with the Islamic religion. Justice Department officials – and even teachers at the Army’s top intellectual center – are delivering similar messages.  (more…)

Omar Khadr’s lawyer, Dennis Edney, talking about Guantanamo: I went to Guantanamo Bay as a lawyer and came out as a broken father.  I never thought in my lifetime that I would go to such an evil place, and see such evil being done. Part 2 (4.45)

American Civil Liberties Union

In the seven days since Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law has been in effect, the impact on communities across the state has been chilling. (more…)

Guantánamo at Home: An Evening with Families of US Terror Suspects—taking place on October 14, 2001 at CUNY Graduate Center that will by hosted by renowned British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce, actors Danny Glover, Wallace Shawn and Kathleen Chalfant, and others. (more…)