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With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed.

Democracy Now! exclusive, the only freed member of the Cuban Five, René González, speaks out after a 13-year imprisonment in the United States. The five Cuban intelligence agents were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They say they were not spying on the United States, but rather trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups responsible for attacks inside Cuba. In Cuba, the five are seen as national heroes.

Five years after the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production released its landmark recommendations to remedy the public health, environment, animal welfare and rural community problems caused by industrial food animal production, a new analysis finds that the Administration and Congress have acted "regressively" in policymaking on industrial food animal system issues.

The Supreme Court Decision in Shelby Is the Latest Challenge in the ‘Unfinished March’ to Full Black Access to the Ballot

Strikes, demonstrations and protests are at a record pace in Colombia this year as workers seek a bigger share of wealth generated by the country’s expanding economy. After 50 years of guerrilla warfare, the government’s success in weakening illegal armed groups has drawn investment and rewarded businessmen, while the gap between rich and poor remains considerable, according to the World Bank’s Gini index of income distribution.

"There has to be a grass roots campaign to win it."

The attempt to take the nation’s politics hostage is still underway. Only the wording of the ransom note has changed.

Poor Bulgaria. Once again the Germans are headed her way—this time armed with nothing more than a change of currency and the policies of austerity that go along with it.