Civil Liberties

In Landmark Ruling, European Court Sides With Torture Victim; Slams CIA's Rendition Program

By Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

European Court of Human Rights rules in favor of a German car salesman kidnapped and "interrogated" as suspected terrorist, uses WikiLeaked docs as evidence.

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Noam Chomsky: America, Moral Degenerate

By Eric Bailey, Noam Chomsky / Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives

Christian Counselor Who Refused to Treat Suicidal Gay Youth Awarded $75,000?!?

By Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Pack Your Bags: Ethical Traveler Shares 10 Best Destinations for 2013

By Tara Lohan / AlterNet

How the Bitter Losers of 2012 Rammed Through a Union-Destroying Bill in Michigan

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder

How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

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Civil Liberties

5 Unbelievably Creepy Surveillance Tactics

Tana Ganeva / AlterNet

How Washington's Political Culture Turned a Community Organizer Into a Deadly Drone Killer President

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch.com

Half of People Shot by Police Are Mentally Ill, Investigation Finds

Natasha Lennard / Salon

I Was a Teen Conservative: How I Learned That Life Is Too Complex for Right-Wing Ideology

Steve Erickson / The American Prospect

3 Ways GOP Will Double-Down on Its War On Voters in 2013

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Supreme Court Will Consider Same-Sex Marriage and Some Gay Rights Activists Are Worried

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Did the FBI Use Occupy Cleveland Case to Equate Activism with Terrorism?

Kris Hermes / AlterNet

Supreme Court Takes Gay Marriage Case, But Don't Hold Your Breath For An Epic Ruling

Adam Winkler / Huffington Post

Expert: Supreme Court Case on Patenting Human Genes Will Likely inflict "Devastating Harm on the American People"

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Arizona Conservatives Back Substantial Immigration Reform

Valeria Fernández / New America Media

BREAKING: Supremes To Hear Prop 8, DOMA Cases

Editorial Staff / AlterNet

Call Michigan's Job-Killing Anti-Worker Law What It Is: The Right To Rip Off Unions

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Will the Feds Come After Legal Pot in Washington and Colorado?

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Koch-Funded ALEC and Americans For Prosperity Launch Assault on Michigan Unions

Mary Bottari / PR Watch

Muslim-Americans to GOP: Please Knock Off the Hate

Hamed Aleaziz / Think Progress

A Prisoner's-Eye View of Harrowing Conditions in the Harris County, TX Jail

Diane Wilson / AlterNet

Waiting List for Addiction Treatment in Federal Prisons Is 51,000 Inmates Long

Seth Ferranti / The Fix

Another Handcuffed Young Man Manages to Shoot Himself

Natasha Lennard / Salon

Southern States Outlaw Syringe Exchanges Used to Prevent Disease

Tessie Castillo / AlterNet

8 Ways Police Can Spy on You Without a Warrant

Theodoric Meyer, Peter Maass / ProPublica

West Point Military Cadet's Unsettling Story of How Christianity Dominates the Academy and Drove Him to Quit

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Sikh Temple Killer Wade Michael Page Was Radicalized by Army Base's "Thriving Neo-Nazi Underworld"

Marilyn Elias / SPLC Intelligence Report

The Bizarre Politics of Border Security

Tom Barry / AlterNet

They Can Do That?! 10 Outrageous Tactics Cops Get Away With

John Knefel / AlterNet

Cops Ask Congress for Your Text Messages

Alex Kane / AlterNet

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