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Have Americans Traded Freedom For Security? By Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch According to polls, Americans support torture and don't mind that their government spies on them without obtaining warrants from a court. Read more » Why Obama Must Keep Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo By Andy Worthington, TruthOut.org The failed bomb plot on Christmas Day has prompted lawmakers to declare that no more Yemenis should be released from Guantánamo. They're wrong. more » America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet The Millennial Decade screwed with our heads and destroyed our national identity. Are we in for a cataclysmic century? more » 10 Reasons the U.S. Military Should (Officially) Use Pot By Penny Coleman, AlterNet Medical marijuana may have a host of advantages over other treatments for traumatized vets, but the VA won't even study its efficacy. more » One Day We'll All Be Terrorists By Chris Hedges, Truthdig Our descent is the familiar disease of decaying empires. Dissent is starting to become defined as an act of terrorism. more » Just How Racist Is the Tea Party Movement? By Bill Berkowitz, IPS News Are the openly-racist elements within the Tea Party movement an aberration, or are they more firmly entrenched than tea partiers would care to admit? more » Israel Declares War on NGOs and Human Rights Groups By Jerrold Kessel, Pierre Klochendler, IPS News One year after its devastating siege of Gaza, Israel's efforts to discredit peace groups have intensified, while settlement activity has expanded. more » Nigerian Man Attempted to Blow Up US Airliner Agence France Presse A young Nigerian man with reported links to Al-Qaeda was under arrest Saturday after trying to blow up a US airlinerv headed for Detroit. more » PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web For the Record, I'm No Holocaust "Skeptic" By Joshua Holland, AlterNet According to the logic of some, it's a debatable point. more » Right-Wing Response to Underpants Bomber Hilariously Hypocritical By Tintin, Sadly, No! Obama should clearly admit that he's the worst president ever. more » Right-Wingers Call For Racial Profiling: "There Should be a Separate Line [For] Anybody With the Name Abdul" By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress In the wake of the failed terrorist attempt aboard a Northwest airlines flight on Christmas Day, the right wing is renewing its pleas for more profiling of Muslims. more » This Was the Decade For Same-Sex Marriage. Who Knew? By Melissa McEwan, Comment Is Free In the year 2000, I never would have imagined that we'd be seeing a global movement for marriage equality. more » Ninth Circuit Court Delivers Landmark Taser Ruling By Digby, Hullabaloo The next stop could be the Supreme Court. more »

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