An injured child rests in a field hospital after what activists claim were at least five air strikes carried out by forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus September 11, 2014.
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As the detective in the old LA Dragnet show use to say – “just the facts”. Between Jan. 1, 2000 and August 31, 2014, the report found, law enforcement officers in Los Angeles County used lethal force resulting in the deaths of at least 589 people. That’s almost one death a week, for nearly 14 years.
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Awqa Colque speaking about the ongoing colonialism on Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) land at Birmingham University at the event “Far From Post-Colonial: The continued struggles of indigenous peoples”.
Source: xicanation.com
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi: “Since World War II, 90% of the casualties of war are unarmed civilians, a third of them children.”
Source: ushypocrisy.com
A group of individuals, one of whom was wielding a machete, attacked two brothers in Chicago. WLS reports.
Source: www.cnn.com
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Pennsylvania man, Eric Matthew Frein, in the ambush of two state troopers, authorities said Tuesday.
Source: www.cnn.com
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Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.
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Money can move across borders.
Raw materials can move across borders.
Manufactured goods can move across borders.
People (especially the poor) are highly restricted from moving across borders.
People should have the freedom and liberty to move where the resources and jobs are located.
A man claims to be a victim of George Zimmerman road rage this week. Zimmerman allegedly threatened to kill the other man involved in the incident.
According to WSVN, Lake Mary police officials said they received a 911 call Tuesday from a man claiming Zimmerman threatened to kill him during a road rage altercation.
Authorities said they received a second 911 call from the same man on Wednesday, saying George Zimmerman was waiting for him outside his place of work and that he feared for his personal safety
Source: thegrio.com
During the 15 years Michael Elsbury worked as an officer of the Baton Rouge Police Department, he admittedly racially profiled when he made arrests. In his own words, he enjoyed doing it.
Source: ushypocrisy.com
Though deeply concerned about the effects of illegal immigration on California, state voters broadly support a path to legalization for the nation’s 12 million unauthorized residents, according to a new poll.
Source: www.latimes.com
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