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Una mujer negra fue asesinada a tiros por pedir ayuda en un barrio de mayoría blanca.
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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Según un informe, médicos militares estadounidenses participan en la tortura de detenidos.
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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Corea del Sur toma medidas para prohibir el partido pro-norcoreano
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 y la chica de la blusa negra: La historia olvidada de agresión sexual detrás de la famosa fotografía de la guerra de Vietnam.
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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ÚLTIMA HORA: Israel bombardea Siria
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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Un número récord de naciones se opone al embargo estadounidense a Cuba en una votación de la ONU.
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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‘Evidentemente, era una política no denunciarlos’: una nueva investigación encuentra al menos 3.000 muertes confirmadas en internados indígenas.
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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Un niño de 10 años fue expulsado de un autobús en Nueva York y tildado de "terrorista" por recitar una breve oración en árabe; ahora está demandando a la autoridad de transporte.
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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Rebeldes llevan a cabo un nuevo ataque con armas químicas en Siria, cerca de la frontera con Turquía, según un informe.
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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“Los disturbios siempre empiezan de la misma manera”: Se avecina el cierre del programa de cupones de alimentos el viernes.
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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