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  Guantanamo prisoner recounts ordeal: A prisoner currently on hunger strike in the notorious US prison in Guantanamo Bay has described the pain of being force...
  Turkey police use water cannon on rally: Turkish police have used water cannons to disperse protesters holding a demonstration in capital Ankara.
  
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  Flood death toll in India hilly states climbs: At least 130 people killed and thousands displaced after torrential rains devastate two states in northern India.
  US Fed weighs slowing down bond-buying: Investors sell both stocks and bonds after Bernanke cites strengthening economy as reason for winding down programme.
  
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  Galtung-Overcoming the Taksim Square Conflict: 11 June 2013 - Prof. Johan Galtung, in Turkey, presents an analysis and much info directed at peaceful/nonviolent soluti...
  Justice at Guantanamo: From the Profound to the Ab...: Lawyers argue over basic rules as accused terrorist Abd al Rahim al Nashiri faces the death penalty. After being capture...
  
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  Wall Street Getting Rich At Expense of Farmers and...: More protections needed to safeguard the health of the global food and farming system...
  Hundreds of Thousands of Brazilians Protest Countr...: Protest against bus fare increase sparked nationwide protest movement demanding systemic change...
  
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  Vancouver to consider another report on future of...: Straight Talk »Vancouver city council will consider a report next week on the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts, which...
  Video: Hundreds sing in downtown Vancouver in soli...: Straight Talk »Hundreds of people gathered outside the Vancouver Art Gallery yesterday (June 18) in a show of soli...
  
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  Sister Helen Prejean & Bill Pelke on Freeing t...: In a remarkable story on the journey from grief to forgiveness, Bill Pelke joins us along with renowned activist and "De...
  Mass Protests Sweep Brazil in Uproar over Public S...: Brazil is witnessing some of its largest protests in decades, after some 240,000 people protested Monday. Tens of thousa...
  
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  Climate emergency needs a people’s power solutio...: Socialist candidate: We cannot solve the global climate emergency as long as mining, energy and banking remain in the ha...
  Capitalism: A Structural Genocide: Book Review: Capitalism is responsible for a class-based genocide that targets the poor, particularly in the global sout...
  
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  Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Exposes Dangers o...: The explosion that killed 14 at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas in April 2013 raises new concerns over OSHA funding an...
  Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA: Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, those are only a few major recent productions showing how today’s movie in...
  
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  After Applebaum: A cheat sheet for Montreal politi...: Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca. You can say many things...
  Outdated privacy protections in Canada: Weekly new...: Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca.  Here is...
  
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  Militarism and Sports – Part II (A Response): Militarism and Sports – Part II (A Response) Tyler Shipley A couple of years ago, I wrote a short article expressing m...
  Militarism and Sports – Part I (A Call): Militarism and Sports – Part I (A Call) Peter Miller and Daniel Lyder An oft-repeated opinion in the sports media...