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posted in The Guardian Dec. 28, 2014 President Barack Obama said on Sunday the longest war in American history was coming to a responsible conclusion. Obama was welcoming the end of US combat operations in Afghanistan, which was marked with a ceremony in Kabul. Obama, who is on vacation in […]
by Alfonso Serrano for Aljazeera The 43-year-old war on drugs had never seen such a barrage of opposition as it did in 2014, with successful marijuana legalization initiatives in several U.S. states, California’s historic approval of sentencing reform for low level drug offenders and world leaders calling for the legal […]
Paul Lewis for The Guardian, Dec. 24, 2014 The families of at least four unarmed black men killed this year by police are pinning their hopes on possible federal prosecutions under a little-known civil rights statute that has only occasionally been used to indict officers in such cases. The Department […]
Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times, Dec 23, 2014 LA VIRGEN, Costa Rica — Over just a few decades in the mid-20th century, this small country chopped down a majority of its ancient forests. But after a huge conservation push and a wave of forest regrowth, trees now blanket […]
from Democracy Now, Dec. 24, 2014 Six years after first promising to close Guantánamo, President Obama is beginning to free more men from the 13-year-old military prison in Cuba. Four Afghans were sent home this week, following six other Guantánamo prisoners sent to Uruguay earlier this month, four years after […]
By Erika Eichelberger and AJ Vicens, Mother Jones Dec. 23, 2014 The cost of US war-making in the 13 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks reached a whopping $1.6 trillion in 2014, according to a recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The $1.6 trillion in war spending […]
Associated Press in New York At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion” – about a quarter – of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming number […]
by Roy Greenslade, The Guardian Dec. 17, 2014 More journalists are in jail across the world at present than a year ago. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 220 journalists are in prison, an increase of nine from 2013. It is the second-highest number of imprisoned journalists since […]
from The Guardian Dec. 20, 2014 Two New York City police officers were shot and killed on Saturday afternoon as they sat in their patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn. In a Saturday evening press conference at Woodhull medical center in the borough, NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton, his […]
from RT.COM Dec. 20, 2014 More than 30 cities in Spain have expressed their anger over the so-called ‘gag’ legislation that criminalizes social protest and, demonstrators say, curbs the freedom of expression. The slogan of the movement is “Gag Law, why do they want to shut us up?” and unites […]
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