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The American Civil Liberties Union announced a lawsuit against the National Security Agency on Tuesday, alleging what it calls "mass Internet spying" on Americans international emails, communications and other online activity. - Saudi Arabia is not our ally in the war on terror. Their inhumane treatment of their own people enables, facilitates and inspires jihadists like the ones whose most recent targets were the journalists in Paris and the innocent clientele of a kosher grocery store on the outskirts of the French capital.
- Israel should be held accountable for the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian children
- President Obama's surprise announcement last week that he would normalize relations with Cuba stirs emotions among those whose families fled the country after Castro's Communist revolution.
- U.S. should end support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank
- NAACP selected attorney Cornell William Brooks as its new president and CEO, at a board of directors meeting in Fort Lauderdale Friday.
- Benjamin Jealous leaves the NAACP a revitalized and relevant institution that is at the forefront of the social justice struggles of our time.
- Benjamin Jealous leaves the NAACP a revitalized and relevant institution that is at the forefront of the social justice struggles of our time.
- The Harford school system was considering 25 years ago this week buying a bridge on Carrs Mill Road, for $1, that would help it with redistricting.
- Charles Village Festival 2013 is June 1-2. Saturday events and activities include 5K Run at 8:30 a.m., 1K Kids' Fun Run at 9., festival within the festival at Wyman Park Dell from 11-9, and a gunny sack race for Charles Village parents and their kids, 3-4 p.m. in lower dell. Sunday events include a garden walk (tour of houses with gardens) 11-4, and the same stuff as Saturday in the dell.
- Eliminating the number of appeals in death penalty cases is impossible because so many death row inmates have turned out to be innocent.
- Make Md. death penalty quicker, cleaner, cheaper and more effective
- The former commander of the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va., told a military court on Tuesday that accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning was kept on a suicide watch against the advice of psychiatrists who recommended he be held in less restrictive conditions.
- Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him.
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- The only way to guarantee an innocent person won't be executed is to abolish the death penalty
- Hundreds of activists are planning to demonstrate outside Fort Meade this weekend in support of Army Private Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, organizers said.
- Bradley Manning's attorneys suggest the accused WikiLeaker was a skilled computer technician who struggled with mental health, emotional and behavioral problems.
- A military hearing for Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of giving classified materials about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to WikiLeaks, will be held at Fort Meade next month, his attorney said Monday.
