Did you know that in two states not paying your student loans could mean your driver’s license can be revoked? (more…)
January 2015
Monthly Archive
Sun 18 Jan 2015
These Two States Will Revoke Your License If You Can’t Pay Back Your Student Loans
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Sat 17 Jan 2015
Latest FBI Claim of Disrupted Terror Plot Deserves Much Scrutiny and Skepticism
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The known facts from this latest case seem to fit well within a now-familiar FBI pattern whereby the agency does not disrupt planned domestic terror attacks but rather creates them, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own plots. (more…)
Sat 17 Jan 2015
Explosive Rates of Mass Incarceration Called Major ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
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The disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color in the United States, particularly of black men, is no accident, finds a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. (more…)
Sat 17 Jan 2015
How US Prison Officials Rubber-Stamped a CIA Torture Chamber
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The CIA’s chief interrogator called it “the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon.”
At the agency’s COBALT detention site in Afghanistan – also known as the “Salt Pit” – detainees were kept in total darkness, shackled to the floors or walls of their cells, and given buckets to dispose of their own waste. (more…)
Tue 13 Jan 2015
Social Justice Quiz 2015: How Much Do You Know about Inequality?
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Bill Quigley ICH
In 1990, twenty percent of all children in the US lived in poverty. What percent of th children in the US live in poverty today? (more…)
Mon 12 Jan 2015
The biggest threat to French free speech isn’t terrorism. It’s the government.
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Jonathan Turley Washington Post
The greatest threat to liberty in France has come not from the terrorists who committed such horrific acts this past week but from the French themselves, who have been leading the Western world in a crackdown on free speech. (more…)