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  • Witnesses to History, 50 Years Later. 

    Fifty years after the March on Washington, the mass protest that helped energize some of the most critical social legislation in the nation’s history, The New York Times asked readers who attended to recall their experiences and reflect on the legacy of that day. Out of hundreds of submissions, we present a selection of stories and anecdotes, edited and condensed from online submissions and follow-up interviews.

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  • Bradley Manning's statement at his sentencing hearing. 

    If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.

    It’s an eloquent and powerful read.

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  • CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup. 

    I suppose this has been an open-secret for years and years, but this is them officially acknowledging their hand in overthrowing Mossadegh’s government.

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  • Lavabit shuts down. 

    They don’t trust they can keep their data away from the US government, it sounds like. To quote: “I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.”

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