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Special Ed Teacher Lowers Autistic Boy Into Trash Can To »Calm Him Down »

The teachers lawyer claimer her actions were not inappropriate, and that she has used characters such as Oscar the Grouch to help calm special education students.

Associated Press
Par Associated Press

MARIETTA, Ga. –  A Georgia special education teacher who was accused of holding an autistic boy upside-down and lowering him head-first into a trash can while comparing him to Oscar the Grouch says she was trying to calm the boy, not hurt him. At a school system hearing Monday near Atlanta, Mary Katherine Pursley said the second-grader was

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After 13 Years Of Hell, Human Held Without Charges Has One Question For The US

In a strikingly personal piece, Moath al-Alwi expresses his grief, anger, and frustrations after nearly 13 years of being held with no charges by the U.S. government. « I wonder now, » he writes, « if the US follows any rule of law at all: the Geneva Conventions or even its own Constitution. Where is the freedom and justice for all that it so proudly boasts to the world? »

Jon Queally
Par Jon Queally

Moath al-Alwi, who has been a prisoner of the U.S. government and detained at the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002 without ever being charged with a crime or afforded a trial, has a simple yet urgent question for the American people and the U.S. government: Why am I still here? "The world may turn a blind eye and find this

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John McCain And Endless War: Best Friends Forever

The Arizona Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee never misses an opportunity to promote war and American imperialism.

Kit O'Connell
Par Kit O'Connell
U.S. Senator John McCain

MINNEAPOLIS --- Modern American politicians are often criticized for their willingness to bow to popular opinion, changing their professed beliefs from moment to moment based on what they think the public wants to hear. Yet one senator rises above all that through his unabashed love of war -- a stance that’s remained consistent regardless of what

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US Government Tested Mustard Gas On Troops Based on Race

“It felt like you were on fire,” a black U.S. Army veteran tells NPR of being a test subject for the effects of mustard gas in a once-secret government program to determine the effects of chemical weapons on different races.

Sean Nevins
Par Sean Nevins
Segregated troops practice movement in protective gear at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland in the early 1940s.

WASHINGTON --- The U.S. Army had a secret program to test mustard gas and other chemical agents on U.S. troops during World War II. The program was declassified in 1993, and it was revealed in 2008 that the experiments had been race-based. On Monday, NPR reporter Caitlin Dickerson released an investigative report with interviews of some of the

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#FreedomFlotilla III Gathers At Sea Before Setting Sail To Break Israel’s Siege Of Gaza

As global pressure and regional shifts undermine Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, Palestine supporters from more than 20 countries are preparing for the latest attempt to defy it.

Joe Catron
Par Joe Catron

GAZA STRIP --- A converted Swedish fishing trawler left the port of Messina in eastern Sicily late Friday evening, sailing into the Mediterranean to meet other vessels before they attempt to break Israel’s nautical blockade of the Gaza Strip. “The goal is, as always, to challenge and eventually end the inhuman and illegal blockade of Gaza,”

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Walmart To Stop Selling Confederate Flag Merchandise

Wal-Mart claims it has a process in place which helps them decide the merchandise they sell. Yet they claim that at times, items make their way into their assortment improperly. « This is one of those instances. »

MintPress News Desk
Par MintPress News Desk

Walmart is pulling merchandise with Confederate flag designs after the symbol was linked to recent violence. CBSN's Kristine Johnson has more. Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Sears Holdings Corp said they would stop selling products bearing the Confederate flag, a week after a white gunman shot nine dead at a historically black South Carolina church. The

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