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The Obama Administration has produced vast expansion of deportations reaching 409,000 last year, with over 2 million deported since this president assumed office. Increased enforcement has been justified as a device to encourage legislative reform of the immigration system, but it has only increased the deportations and the divisions of families.

Anti-base protester: 'Okinawa residents cannot tolerate the base relocation within the prefecture.

A criminal government at work!

There are many steps that we can take to end that state of affairs, but the most important is to put jobs back on the agenda.

Pope Francis, homelessness, drones, Obamacare, Boxing Day

Nurses, philosophers, and UK trade unions have, over the past 12 months, all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better — places to live.

Freedom Rider and long-time activist for justice, Bob Zellner, reaches out to one who sees the plight of African Americans during the pre-civil rights era differently.

In these times of widespread violence perpetrated by men, we may learn from Mandela's model of masculinity.

To single out Turing is to say all the other persecuted gay men are not so deserving of justice because they were less exceptional

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