Russian President Vladmir Putin’s passage of his country’s notorious law banning “homosexual propaganda” has sparked long overdue interest in Russia’s brutal repression of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. But while some Western activists launched highly publicized boycotts of the …

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The first promise of the newly-minted Obama administration back in 2008 was to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison. Today, dozens have spent many years there without charges, let alone trial, and have been “cleared” for release, but haven’t been. …

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Jason Tompkins of GenderJust and the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz discuss “Pinkwashing,” a propaganda campaign funded by the Israeli government to divert attention from its continuing violation of Palestinian rights behind an image of modernity, signified by Israeli gay …

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Rick Rozoff is not only Chicago’s premiere expert on the NATO military alliance, he is internationally renowned for his encyclopedia knowledge of the largest such alliance in world history. With NATO coming to Chicago this May, our local media has …

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The Gay Liberation Network has long argued that LGBT people shouldn’t concern ourselves only with our own rights. We are a rainbow community, many of us sharing additional oppressed identities in addition to being LGBT. We must not only demand …

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Minutes after taking office in 2008, President Obama’s first promise to the American people was that he was going to close down the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp, where people were being imprisoned for years in conditions internationally recognized as …

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Scott Lively, widely seen as the principal North American promoter of Uganda’s infamous “kill-the-gays bill,” was recently honored by the anti-gay hate group “Americans For Truth About Homosexuality” in Arlington Hts, IL. While Lively and AFTAH founder Peter LaBarbera have …

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Leaders of the G8 (“Group of 8”) nations, generally the wealthiest in the world, will hold a summit in May 2012 in Chicago, along with the heads of the NATO military alliance. The meetings represent the single biggest confab of …

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