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Uncle Sam Denying Soldiers Citizenship
World  (tags: Uncle Sam, soldiers, military, civil rights, Memorial Day, personnel, citizenship, immigration, policy, U.S., United States )

Susty
- 213 days ago - us.oneworld.net
Loopholes in immigration policy are preventing U.S. military personnel from becoming citizens even after years of service to the country, reported a civil rights organization this Memorial Day.
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Violence-Plagued Mexico Sees Hope in US Border Plan
World  (tags: world, violence, mexico, america, economy, marijuana, obama, law, government, drug war, narco-terrorism, freedom, culture, crime, rights, corruption, politics, war, medicine, drugs, consumers, civil rights, health )

Tom
- 278 days ago - reuters.com
U.S. officials announced a $184 million program to add 360 security agents to border posts and step up searches for smuggled drugs, guns and money, as Mexico's spiraling drug war seeps over the border into the United States.
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Mexican Drug Wars Now Worse Than Iraq
World  (tags: world, violence, mexico, america, Iraq, economy, marijuana, obama, law, government, drug war, narco-terrorism, freedom, culture, crime, rights, corruption, politics, war, medicine, drugs, consumers, civil rights, health )

Tom
- 278 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Mexican drug cartels are as heavily armed as America's enemies during the Iraq war and are extending their bloody conflict into the United States, say security experts. Armed with rockets and grenades, they've brought death and chaos south of the border.
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The Success of Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
World  (tags: world, economy, marijuana, pot, joint, obama, law, government, drug war, narco-terrorism, freedom, culture, crime, rights, corruption, politics, war, medicine, drugs, consumers, civil rights, health )

Tom
- 285 days ago - salon.com
There is a growing worldwide recognition that, strictly on empirical grounds, criminalization approaches to drug usage and especially the "War on Drugs" are abject failures because they worsen the exact problems they are ostensibly intended to address.
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Destroy Cartels With "Genius Bomb" of Marijuana Legalization
World  (tags: world economy, drug war, narco-terrorists, government, crime, corruption, politics, war, freedoms, jail, prison, freedom, civil rights )

Tom
- 286 days ago - azcentral.com
Consider the impact of eliminating the most profitable product the cartels sell. "Marijuana is the Mexican cartels' cash crop, the cash cow," says Brittany Brown of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Washington office.
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What If We Legalized All Drugs? We Could Save $50 Billion!
World  (tags: world economy, drug war, narco-terrorists, government, crime, corruption, politics, war, freedoms, jail, prison, freedom, civil rights )

Tom
- 307 days ago - articles.moneycentral.msn.com
Every year, about 2 million people in the U.S. are arrested for drug offenses, including using or selling marijuana, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. A third of the country's prisoners are held on drug charges or for crimes attributed to drug abuse.
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Barack Obama : An Inauguration for the Ages
World  (tags: Barack Obama, inauguration, USA, civil rights, Social Justice )

Blue
- 341 days ago - thenation.com
The spirits of the civil rights movement--and movements for social justice everywhere--will be with Barack Obama this Inauguration Day. Artist John Mavroudis imagines the occasion.
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What President Barack Obama Means to the World
World  (tags: Barack Obama, human rights, equality, civil rights, leadership, education, social justice, government, leadership )

Blue
- 341 days ago - thenation.com
On November 4, 2008 ...America had a black leader, and suddenly everybody else wanted one. Or at least they wondered how they could get hold of one.
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How Racism Feels
World  (tags: racism, bigotry, society, culture, human rights, civil rights )

Blue
- 654 days ago - dailykos.com
I remember hearing my neighbor say that we could not allow Negroes into the public swimming pool because then it would have to be drained and scrubbed clean and refilled before white people could use it again. This, remember, is in a city in the North.
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Breaking: Supreme Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
World  (tags: Supreme Court, Bush Republican, domestic spying, wiretaps, civil rights, freedoms, government, fear )

Blue
- 677 days ago - rawstory.com
Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program. However, the justices' decision Tuesday included no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.
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ON THIS DAY - 1972: Army Kills 13 in Civil Rights Protest
World  (tags: northern ireland, roman catholic, protestant, londonderry, sunday bloody sunday, 1972, on this day, civil rights )

Chrissy
- 697 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
British troops have opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians. Seventeen more people, including one woman, were injured by gunfire. Another woman was knocked down by a speeding car.
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