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Black Woman Shot to Death for Asking for Help in a White Neighborhood
Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a predominately white Detroit suburb. Because her cell phone battery was dead, she went to nearby home for assistance. That might seem like the reasonable and understandable thing to do, but it was the biggest mistake of McBride’s short life.…
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US military doctors participate in torture of detainees, report says
An independent report has charged that medical personnel, working under the direction of the Department of Defense and CIA in military defense facilities, violated medical ethics by participating in the torture of detainees. The services provided by American doctors and psychologists included “designing, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment” of detainees, according…
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South Korea moves to ban pro-North party
A far left-wing South Korean political party could be banned from contesting elections for its pro-North Korean stance in a move critics say smacks of President Park Geun-hye’s father’s suppression of democracy during his long stay in power. The Unified Progressive Party (UPP), which holds six seats in parliament and has contested presidential elections, is…
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My Lai and the Black Blouse Girl: The Forgotten Story of Sexual Assault Behind the Famous Vietnam War Photo
While the My Lai Massacre is widely recognized as a military atrocity and an act of mass murder committed on civilians and non-combatants, true appreciation of the event as an act of mass rape and sexual abuse has never clearly materialized in the American consciousness, in spite of public data and testimony shortly after the…
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BREAKING: Israel bombs Syria
Statement from the ANSWER Coalition condemning Israel’s new strikes Bitterly frustrated that the Obama administration was forced to pull back from its planned aerial war against Syria, the Israeli government has just launched its own bombing of Syria. The Israeli Air Force struck the Syrian city of Latakia in this latest major bombing. Funded by…
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Record number of nations oppose US embargo of Cuba in UN vote
In an overwhelming UN vote, 188 countries have called on the US to lift its 53-year trade embargo on Cuba. Havana has slammed the financial sanctions as a flagrant violation of human rights and said they are tantamount to genocide. The recording-breaking opposition to the embargo saw Israel isolated as the only country to vote…
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‘It was obviously a policy not to report them’: New research finds at least 3,000 confirmed Indian residential school deaths
by Colin Perkel, Canadian Press TORONTO — At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during attendance at Canada’s Indian residential schools, according to new unpublished research. While deaths have long been documented as part of the disgraced residential school system,…
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10-Year-Old Boy Kicked Off NYC Bus, Called “Terrorist” For Saying Brief Arabic Prayer, Now Suing Transit Authority
By Jonathan Vankin A 10-year-old boy who thought he’d lost his Metro Card was kicked off a city bus when he said a quick prayer in Arabic to help him find it. Now the boy’s family is suing the driver of the bus and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority for discrimination. The suit alleges that when…
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Rebels conduct new chemical weapons attack in Syria near Turkish border – report
The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, a Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen reported. The toxic shell exploded near a Kurdish defense forces’ checkpoint close to the border with Turkey in the city of Ras al-Ayn al-Hasakah. The attack was reported by Kurdish defense forces who are conducting…
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“Riots always begin typically the same way”: Food stamp shutdown looms Friday
The head of the largest food bank says the $5 billion annual cut will take a week of meals off millions’ plates BY JOSH EIDELSON Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family…
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