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Charles Davis
Charles Davis has covered Congress for NPR and Pacifica stations across the country, and freelanced for the international news wire Inter Press Service, primarily covering U.S. policy toward Latin America and the war on drugs in particular. He has also worked as a researcher for Michael Moore on his movie Capitalism: A Love Story. He may be contacted at davis.charles84 (at) gmail.com
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Views Thursday, May 21, 2015 The Gambit to Free Chelsea Manning Chelsea Manning was an all-American patriot when she joined the U.S. military in 2007 at the height of the surge in Iraq. But when she saw what her country was actually doing abroad — handing over thousands of Iraqi Sunnis to be tortured by state-sponsored Shiite death squads, for instance — she... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 22, 2015 Hillary the Hawk Announcing her latest campaign for the presidency, Hillary Clinton declared she was entering the race to be the champion for “everyday Americans.” As a lawmaker and diplomat, however, Clinton has long championed military campaigns that have killed scores of “everyday” people abroad, from Iraq to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 09, 2014 Los Angeles Residents Denounce the Deportation of Migrant Youth Dozens of people rallied on Monday outside the U.S. federal building in downtown Los Angeles to show solidarity with tens of thousands of migrant children who have sought refuge in the United States – and to denounce President Barack Obama’s efforts to send them back to the countries they fled. “I... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 10, 2013 Happy Mothers Day: From Guantanamo to Yemen He disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. His mother and father, sick with worry, heard nothing. For all they knew he was dead. Then, one day they opened a newspaper and learned their son was being held in a military prison run by the US of A, accused of – but never charged with – being an enemy of the state. Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 25, 2013 Let George W. Bush Discuss His Legacy However He Likes... from the Hague George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 08, 2012 Should the Democrats Be Taken Over? Can They Be? By this fall, the two major political parties in the United States will have spent around $10bn this election cycle to persuade an increasingly skeptical US public that there is more than just a stylistic difference between a Republican and a Democrat. Naturally, this campaign will focus primarily on the superficial (is Mitt Romney too weird to be president? Is Barack Obama too cool ? Read more |
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Views Friday, July 06, 2012 The Santa-ization of MLK's Radical Legacy “The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around.” – Martin Luther King’s final speech, I've Been to the Mountaintop Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 05, 2012 Colin Powell: Another War Criminal Cashes In One could be forgiven for thinking there's anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portrayed the former Secretary of State as something of a real life action hero, a reluctant warrior whose greatest fault – should they deign to mention any – was just being too darn loyal to a guy named George and his buddy Dick. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 11, 2012 The Liberal Betrayal of Bradley Manning More than three years into the presidency of Barack Obama, it’s almost a cliché now to ask: What if George W. Bush did it? Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 24, 2012 'Stability' Trumps Democracy in Egypt Confronted with popular protest, the country’s unelected rulers have doubled down on repression, jailing peaceful activists and killing dozens of civilians who have the gall to exercise their rights. Those who state security forces haven’t killed for demanding democracy have been tear-gassed and brought before the perverted justice of a military court, even as the ruling clique promises the world and its red-eyed subjects democratic reform. Read more |