Articles Posted by Ralph E. Stone
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Closing Guantánamo
The Senate Torture report confirms that Guantánamo was a place of torture and indefinite detention, and continues to be an international embarrassment.
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San Francisco Implements Laura’s Law
People with psychotic disorders who received court-ordered treatment for 180 days had significantly better outcomes than those who were given either intensive treatment alone, or a court order alone.
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Swiftboating Planned Parenthood
Remember the organization “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s” and its smear campaign against 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry? Named after the group, the discredited, Republican-funded campaign against Kerry became known pejoratively as “swiftboating.”
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Bernie Sanders: Drawing Massive Crowds Yet Still Considered a “Long Shot?”
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an unabashed democratic socialist, is making quite a splash in the media and on the campaign trail. The question is, can an independent, democratic socialist win the Democratic nomination for president?
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Letter to Jeb Bush: Torture is Never Justifiable
The release of the Senate Torture Report should have reminded you that human torture is not only morally unacceptable – it is also a crime.
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Will We Learn From the Charleston Killings?
In this violent nation of ours, there seems to be a disconnect between our Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms” and the number of mass killings in this country.
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Comment on the Charleston Massacre
When African-Americans demonstrated against police brutality and racism in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland, and Oakland, California, they were called “thugs,” “rioters,” and “hoodlums.” But 21-year old Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, is being referred to as a “lone wolf” and of course, he must be mentally ill.
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