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Warden of an Insidious Prison

Warden of an Insidious Prison

Jokowi Widodo. He exist in his natural state. Inspired by self-professed sophistication, that supposedly graceful wisdom for the common man. Of understanding, which he knows not, – and in truth, he cares not. F ...

A Time for ‘Sublime Madness’

A Time for ‘Sublime Madness’

Ultimately, the artist and the revolutionary function as they function, and pay whatever dues they must pay behind it because they are both possessed by a vision, and they do not so much follow this vision as find th ...

Blood Coltan
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Blood Coltan

The mobile (cell) phone is a remarkable piece of engineering. But look inside. There's blood in this machine. There's blood in this device because your mobile contains tiny electronic circuits, and they couldn't work ...

Modern Day Slavery
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Modern Day Slavery

For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, brick layers ...

Khalil Muhammad on Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past
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Khalil Muhammad on Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad dissected the contradictions between the American belief in equality and freedom and its actual treatment of its own citizens ...

Am I not a man and a brother: A campaign for someone else’s rights

Am I not a man and a brother: A campaign for someone else’s rights

What developed from that faithful meeting held on May 22, 1787 was one of the most ambitious and brilliantly organised citizens’ campaigns of all times. A grassroot social movement, in many ways a viral ...

Rio Tinto accused over Bougainville genocide

Rio Tinto accused over Bougainville genocide

A US federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit seeking to hold Rio Tinto responsible for human rights violations and thousands of deaths linked to a Bougainville copper and gold mine it once ran. ...

US: More Blacks In Prison Today Than There Were Slaves In 1850 – War On Drugs
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US: More Blacks In Prison Today Than There Were Slaves In 1850 – War On Drugs

Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss the concept that there are more African Americans in prison today than the were slaves in 1850. What is the role of the War On Drugs? ...