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In Kay Rudin”s courtroom drawing, Bradley Manning appears as a diminutive man-boy, surrounded by stern, meaty military officers. Rudin, a coast artist and musician since 1969, has been covering the court martial in Washington, D.C., for ReaderSupportedNews, a virtual news service that delivers emails from a progressive perspective to more than 100,000 people, with updates […]

The two men, who rode in the presidential cavalcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, are concerned their facts will give way to falsehoods after they die

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Greg King/GettyI spent the summer of 1990 “hiding out” at my parents’ modest home in western Sonoma County. At twenty-nine years old I’d landed back at the family abode after my two closest colleagues had been violently attacked and almost killed for attempting to protect redwood forests. After I’d lived through five years of threats and assaults for the crime of trying to save the very last ancient redwood g...

Law enforcement has a shabby record when it comes to protecting environmental protestors and activists, but with the Judi Bari car bombing, it looked like the feds crossed a line.