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Point Lookout II prisoner cemetery in Angola, Louisiana, 2009. (Lee Honeycutt, “Cemetery Crosses,” Wikiimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 By John Kiriakou / Consortium News I’ve had a rough week. Last Saturday I worked all day writing and gathering documents for a court case. It was a completely normal and uneventful day, and I went to bed at 10 o’clock. At 2:05 am, my phone alarm went off to tell me that my blood sugar was too low, so I got up to get something to eat. I don’t remember getting

The stories of Lucas Bellamy and Brandon Clay Dodson show how easy it is to die a medically preventable death in U.S. prisons. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News I’ve had a rough week. Last Saturday I worked all day writing and gathering documents for a court case. It was a co

The announcement follows Putin's warning that Russia would suspend participation in the deal because parts of it were not being fulfilled.  By Peoples Dispatch On Monday, Russia announced its termination of the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain deal with Ukraine, first signed in July last year,

  As a newly minted first grader, I soon learned that in Virginia schools we had to stand each morning and repeat the Lord’s Prayer (yes, really!), along

Governments including Poland and Hungary are balking at the effects of tax-free cheap grain from Ukraine on their domestic markets, Peoples Dispatch reports. By Peoples Dispatch European Union (EU) authorities and five eastern European countries are in a stand-off over the import of tariff-f