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“Right Out of a Spy Movie”: Glenn Greenwald on First Secret Meeting with NSA Leaker Edward Snowden;Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media is “Neutered, Impotent and Obsolete.” HeadlinesMay 14, 2014 Nigeria Opens Door to Talks with Boko Haram on Kidnapped Girls Over 200 Killed in Turkish Mining Blast U.N. Envoy for Syria Resigns After 2 … Continued
“Collect It All”: Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on U.N.; “The Stuff I Saw Really Began to Disturb Me”: How the U.S. Drone War Pushed Snowden to Leak NSA Docs. HeadlinesMay 13, 2014 U.S. Flies Surveillance Planes over Nigeria to Search for Missing Girls Nigeria Rejects Prisoner Swap … Continued
After Chaotic Autonomy Votes, Negotiations Could Be Sole Path to Prevent Ukraine’s Disintegration; Did CIA’s Fake Polio Vaccination Program in Pakistan Help Fuel a Global Health Emergency?With First Images Since Kidnapping, Boko Haram Offers to Swap Nigerian Schoolgirls for Prisoners. HeadlinesMay 12, 2014 Boko Haram Offers Prisoner Swap for Kidnapped Girls Nigerian President: Girls … Continued
Marijuana Refugees: Virginia Family Moves to Colorado to Treat Epileptic Child with Cannabis Oil; As Marijuana Refugees Flock to Colorado, Will Medical Community Force Rewriting of U.S. Drug Laws? HeadlinesMay 9, 2014 U.N., Amnesty Find Mass Atrocities in South Sudan U.S. Officials Arrive in Nigeria to Aid Search for Kidnapped Girls Witnesses: Ethiopian Forces … Continued
As UN Torture Committee Probes Vatican, Sex-Abuse Survivors Urge Church to End Decades-Long Cover-up; Protestant Church Faces New Sex-Abuse Scandal as Victims Defy Threats, Censorship to Speak Out; After Abuse Under State Supervision, Transgender Connecticut Teen Held in Solitary Without Charge. HeadlinesMay 8, 2014 Over 300 Killed in New Massacre by Boko Haram “Bring … Continued
Foretelling Devastating Impact, Will White House Climate Report Spark Action on Global Warming? Stanford Divests: Student-Led Movement Forces Elite School to Pull Its Money From Coal Companies; Will Dark Money Reshape North Carolina Political Landscape From Senate Race to State Supreme Court? HeadlinesMay 7, 2014 White House Report Says Climate Change Having Immediate U.S. … Continued
Bring Back Our Girls: Nigerians Caught Between Deadly Boko Horam Attacks & Military Reprisals; Occupy Wall Street on Trial: Cecily McMillan Convicted of Assaulting Cop, Faces Up to Seven Years; Danny Glover & Kathleen Cleaver on “Black Power Mixtape,” Rare Footage Capturing Movement’s Rise. HeadlinesMay 6, 2014 Dozens Killed in Slovyansk as Ukraine Continues … Continued
Imprisoned Al Jazeera Journalist Details Abu Ghraib Torture & Why He’s Suing U.S. Contractor CACI; 10 Years After Abu Ghraib, Ex-Prisoners Seek Justice in Torture Lawsuit Against U.S. Contractor CACI; “War Criminals Shouldn’t Be Honored”: Rutgers Students Nix Condoleezza Rice From Commencement Speech. HeadlinesMay 5, 2014 Obama Announces Federal Review After “Deeply Troubling” Botched … Continued
Juan González: Respect Key in “Landmark Agreement” Between NYC & Teachers Union; Pulitzer-winning Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas on “Documented: A Film by an Undocumented American”; “You Might Get Hit by a Car”: On Secret Tape, FBI Threatens American Muslim Refusing To Be Informant; Posing as U.S. Officials, Yes Men Announce Renewable Energy Revolution at Homeland … Continued
Lawyer for Next Oklahoma Prisoner Set for Death Calls for Independent Probe of Botched Execution; Brown Student Lena Sclove Speaks Out After School Lets Her Accused Rapist Return to Campus; After Tufts Found to Violate Title IX, How Student Rape Survivors Are Leading Movement for Reform. HeadlinesMay 1, 2014 Oklahoma Orders Lethal Injection Review … Continued
