Civil Liberties

How Obama Can Escape the Quagmire of the Marijuana War

By Kevin Zeese / AlterNet

Marijuana prohibition is a failure: after decades of a “war on marijuana," use is increasing and perceived risk declining.

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Rachel Maddow Has A Lot of Questions for the Obama Administration Following Its Admission to Killing Four Americans with Drones

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5 Controversial Cases Where Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Civil Rights

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

How Our Massive Homeland Security Apparatus Does the Bidding of the Big Banks

By Beau Hodai / PR Watch

The Hell Known as Guantanamo Bay Has No Right to Exist

By Robert Stefanicki / Inter Press Service

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Civil Liberties

NYPD Stops of (Mostly) People of Color Wrong 90 Percent of the Time: 'High Error Rate,' Judge Says

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

It's Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh

Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

Elderly Woman Dies in Court "Gasping for Breath" After Sheriff's Deputies "Callously" Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims

Iulia Filip / Courthouse News

Holy Moly -- Supreme Court to Rule on Prayer at Government Meetings

Katie McDonough / Salon

Our Govt. Is Turning into a Surveillance State That's Almost Impossible to Stop

Murtaza Hussain / Al Jazeera English

80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

Barbara Parramore / AlterNet

The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racism

Robert Parry / Consortium News

The Similarities Between the Charter School Movement and the War on Drugs

Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. / TruthOut.org

How Video Footage of the 'Most Powerful Antiwar Act' in U.S. History Was Rescued From Obscurity

Jake Olzen / Waging Nonviolence

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky: The Truth About America's Secret, Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

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

David Rosen / AlterNet

Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours

Zachary Bell / Waging Nonviolence

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

Fran Quigley / AlterNet

NRA ‘Charity’ Ransacks ‘Enlightened Self-interest’

Robert S. Becker / AlterNet

5 Worst Obama Assaults on Civil Liberties Besides the AP scandal

Steve Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

Why Cops and Prosecutors Get Away With Throwing Innocents in Prison

Margaret Kimberly / Black Agenda Report

Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom

Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges / Democracy Now!

Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent

Jed Morey / AlterNet

Outrage Grows Over Justice Department Seizure of Associated Press Phone Records

Greg Mitchell / The Nation

Congress Turns a Blind Eye to the Deep Shame of Guantanamo Bay

Ray McGovern / Consortium News

Feds' Bogus Threat of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist

Tom Hintze / AlterNet

We Can't Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship / BillMoyers.com

Cleveland Horror Caps Week of Violence Against Women

Leslie Savan / The Nation

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