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By Lena Groeger ProPublica 01/12/12

Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National Institutes of Health. There you’ll find thousands of articles on the latest discoveries in medicine and disease, all free of charge. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon 1/08/12

This Wednesday will mark the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo prison camp. In The New York Times, one of the camp’s former prisoners, Lakhdar Boumediene, has an incredibly powerful Op-Ed recounting the gross injustice of his due-process-free detention, which lasted seven years. (more…)

Just before Christmas Dr. Dhafir was moved into the general population in Terre Haute, Indiana.  His address remains the same:

Rafil A. Dhafir, 11921-052, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808

Murat Kurnaz NYTimes

I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier – shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was drugged and guarded by at least 10 soldiers. (more…)

By Lakhdar Boumediene NYTimes

ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. (more…)

By Dean Kuipers LATimes

The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has recommended for many years that animal activists who carry out undercover investigations on farms could be prosecuted as domestic terrorists. (more…)

President Obama’s State Department announced, during a press briefing today, the creation of the Bureau of Counterterrorism, which will coordinate with United States entities such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and foreign governments to develop civilian counterterrorism strategies and operations. (more…)

What politicians say at their press conferences is intended to achieve one objective only: to plant doubt in the minds of prospective jurors. (more…)