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Reviewed by Stephen Rohde I miss Michael Ratner.  We all should. I met Michael when we were both students at Columbia Law School in the late 60’s. He was smart and funny.  I joined the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild that he had helped establish.  It was described in the yearbook as dedicated to the proposition that “America’s law schools and legal system should, for the first time, begin to respond to the needs of the masses of American people, and not the wishes of the Rep-Dem Party, the Mafia, and General Motors, its subsidiaries, and apologists.”  Members of the ...

In the tell-all docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on Tuesday, viewers get an in-depth look at what really happened before, during and after the singer's 2018 overdose. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. For more on Demi Lovato's new docuseries, listen below to the episode of PEOPLE Every Day. From a detailed timeline of that terrifying July night to t...

How Dianna Ortiz Exposed U.S. Complicity in Guatemalan War Crimes An interview with journalist Allan Nairn following her recent death. Sister Dianna Ortiz Sister Dianna Ortiz passed away on February 19 from cancer at the age of sixty-two. Ortiz was an Ursuline nun and a human rights activist who worked in the highlands of Guatemala beginning in 1987. In 2004, she wrote the award-winning book Ortiz’s 1995 court case resulted in a $47.5 million judgment against a Guatemalan military official. Dennis Bernstein, host of Pacifica Radio’s program Flashpoints, recently interviewed invest...

DUBAI: Egyptian director Manal Khaled’s feature film “Trapped” is set to premiere at the US South by Southwest Festival, due to be held from March 16-20. The film, directed and produced by Khaled, who co-scripted it with Egyptian writer Rasha Azab, focuses on a number of women from different walks of life who feel constrained by restrictions imposed on them by male figures in

Singer speaks in third documentary, Dancing With the Devil, about relapse after years of sobriety