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First-of-its-kind legal guide aimed at navigating LGBT military service in post-DADT repeal environment
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TAKE ACTION: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/pipa_letter/ Click the above link to send an email to your lawmakers urging them to oppose the Internet Bla…
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Tales of imprisonment and torture by state security forces paint a picture of a regime in panic.
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Despite serious privacy concerns being voiced by both Democratic and Republican leaders and by thousands of digital rights activists using EFF’s Action Center, this afternoon the House Judiciary Committee voted 19 to 10 to recommend passage of H.R.
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A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The Web is a very different place today; you now leave countless footprints online. You log into websites.
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“The portion of the collection included in this archive, ones published prior to 1923 and therefore obviously in the public domain, total some 18,592 papers and 33 gigabytes of data.”
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Guantanamo Bay continues to wreck lives, despite President Obama’s pledge to shut the notorious prison. RT spoke to one former prisoner, Murat Kurnaz, who says the US has not issued even a simple apology for his years of torment.
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India’s first married lesbian couple has been given police protection and moved to a safe house amid fears the two women would be targeted in an honour killing.
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Unprecedented law suit seeks NIS 1.8 million in damages from 34 Negev Bedouin; Israel Lands Administration says defendants built homes on land belonging to the state.
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