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Scientology's Narconon Rehab Clinics: Are They a Racket Trying to Make New Converts?

Mark Ebner, Walter Armstrong, The Fix. June 1, 2011.

Narconon promises desperate addicts that they can sweat out their demons (and gobs of poisonous green ooze) by spending hours in sweltering saunas. But is it a real rehab?

The New Yorker Has a Laugh Over Cell Phone Sniffing Dogs In Prison

Just A Guy, Prisonmovement AlterNet: PEEK. October 30, 2009.

The vast majority of prisoners using cell phones are just tying to stay connected to family, friends and loved ones.

Rendition is a Horrible, Violent Crime in Any Form -- It Should Not Be U.S. Policy

Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. February 16, 2009.

The U.S. government should disclose the names, fate, and whereabouts of all persons rendered by the CIA since 2001.

Tonight on GRITtv: The New Yorker's Obama Cover Controversy

ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. July 14, 2008.

Laura Flanders, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Danny Schechter discuss the magazine's inflammatory cover.