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Arkansas Lawmakers Vote To Keep Holiday Celebrating Confederate General — On Martin Luther King Day

Robert E. Lee, led an army that killed thousands of people in defense of slavery is being honored by lawmakers in Arkansas.

Ian Millhiser for Think Progress
Par Ian Millhiser for Think Progress
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Lee at age 31 in 1838, as a Lieutenant of Engineers in the U. S. Army The state of Arkansas has a state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who was one of the most important military leaders of a splinter nation founded on the principle that people should be allowed to own other human beings. On Wednesday, a state

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Europe’s ‘Apartheid’? Muslims Struggle For Normalcy After Paris Attacks

Extremist threats and the rise of far-right politicians have put many Muslims in the position of defending their place in European communities.

Paul Ames
Par Paul Ames
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LISBON, Portugal — Muslims are everywhere in Europe. They are driving cabs in Amsterdam, reading the news on French TV, cooking pasta in Roman restaurants. They are surgeons operating in Brussels' hospitals, businessmen making millions in London, shopkeepers selling beer to late-night revelers in Lisbon. Across the European Union there are

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Classified: US Military Imposes ‘Startling’ Blackout On Key Details Of War In Afghanistan

‘It’s not just a particular fact or figure that’s being classified, but whole categories of previously public information.’

Sarah Lazare
Par Sarah Lazare

U.S. Soldiers at Forward Operating Base in Baylough, Afghanistan, June 16, 2010. In an unprecedented blackout, top U.S. military officials have quietly classified key information about how they are spending the over $65 billion dollars appropriated since 2002 to train Afghan forces. New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who broke the

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‘Turning Back On American People,’ US Senate Votes To Approve Keystone XL Pipeline

‘Thankfully, this vote is a farce—because Keystone XL is a decision for President Obama, not the Climate Denial Congress.’

Deirdre Fulton
Par Deirdre Fulton

Miles of pipe ready to become part of the Keystone Pipeline are stacked in a field near Ripley, Okla.  Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP Marking a major—and likely symbolic—victory for Republicans on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in a 62-36 vote that will not be sufficient to override

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Sacrifices In Journalism And Whistleblowing: A Tribute to Truth-Tellers

Whistleblowing was the buzzword of 2013 and 2014. Snowden and Assange are the big names splashed around headlines, but they’re not the only ones going to great lengths to preserve the Fourth Estate and, in doing so, saving democracy.

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese
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James Risen James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter with the New York Times, addresses a luncheon at the Associated Press Media Editors conference in Chicago. The Justice Department has ruled out forcing Risen to divulge his source in the upcoming trial of a former CIA officer accused of leaking classified information, a person familiar with

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Video: Detective Arrests Public Defender For Resisting Arrest When She Intervenes In Her Clients Interrogation

According to Public Defender Jeff Adachi, The detective arrested Tillotson for refusing to let her client be questioned without the presence of his attorney.

MintPress News Desk
Par MintPress News Desk
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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s public defender has released a video showing police arresting a deputy public defender outside a courtroom for intervening in an interaction between police and her client. The video shows Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson refusing to step aside as a man identified as San Francisco Police Inspector Brian

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