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By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWikiLeaks creator Julian Assange appeared before a London court Tuesday fighting extradition to Sweden on charges of "sex by surprise." He's been accused by two women of taking consensual sex and turning it into nonconsensual sex, of pushing women past their point of comfort, of forcibly having sex without a condom. His lawyers, who are fighting extradition, claim that sending him to Stockholm means condemning him to illegal rendition by the United States to prison in Guantanamo Bay or, even, to death row. Assange, for his part, claims no wrongdoing. He claims this is a set up, orchestrated by ...
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By David Knowles - Politics DailyTo hear the media tell it, a schism has emerged in feminist circles in the wake of last week's Democratic presidential debate. The source of the controversy surrounds Hillary Clinton and whether or not she "played the gender card" to explain away what many deemed a classic display of political parsing. After Clinton turned in her less-than-stellar night in Philadelphia, the spin-room narrative was put this way by one of her advisers: "Ultimately, it was six guys against her, and she came off as one strong woman." Team Hillary slapped together a rapid-response sound bite, "The Politics of Pile ...
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