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U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture

Joseph Margulies Boston Review
They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—the Saudi Arabian citizen detained in the wake of September 11, still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.

Evil in the Delta: Elaine, Arkansas, 1919

Michael Honey Portside
group of African-American men from 1910 ...on the night of September 30, one hundred years ago, ...about 100 African Americans met to organize the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America, a union of land owners, tenants, and sharecroppers.

Morales Scathing Attack on Capitalism at UN General Assembly

Morning Star
"The underlying problem is in the model of production and consumerism, in the ownership of natural resources and in the unequal distribution of wealth." Today, 26 people in the world have the same wealth as 3.8 billion people.

Friday Nite Videos | September 27, 2019

Portside
Greta Thunberg Rips World Leaders at UN Over Climate. The Weight | Featuring Robbie Robertson. Trump Off the Rails. Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Corruption Plan. Don't Waste an Impeachment.

Trump Can’t Get Away With It Anymore

Sam Stein Daily Beast
Though some Trumpworld figures may believe otherwise, House Democrats are not bluffing in their impeachment push. They are firm in their desire to see it done and to see it done with as much pain applied to the president as they can muster.  
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