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Black Man, 60, Shot By Florida Cops In Own Front Yard; Mistook Him For A Burglar
Roy Middleton, a 60-year-old African American man living in Florida, was racially profiled twice on Saturday night and was almost killed because of it. Middleton was in his driveway at 2:45 a.m....
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Corporate Media Helps Resurrect Al Qaeda Threat To Justify NSA Surveillance
For nearly a week mainstream news outlets have been saturated with fear mongering over the Obama administration’s warning about a looming threat from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the...
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Domestic Law Enforcement Is Using NSA Intercepts To Prosecute Drug Offenders
To all you recreational drug users and dealers out there, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is listening. Well actually, it’s the NSA that’s listening and watching. But Reuters has...
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46 People Shot In Chicago Since Thursday, August 1st
Less than a week into August, at least 46 people have been shot across Chicago, six fatally. That’s an average of nearly eight shootings per day. What’s most shocking (in the least surprising way) is...
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Who’s Terrorizing Who? In Yemen, America Is The Terrorist
Nonstop fear mongering by lawmakers and White House officials about the allegedly growing threat of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has pushed Yemen into the national spotlight as a country...
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(UPDATED) Hospital Denies Black Teen A Heart Transplant Because Of Bad Grades...
Important updates below Doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta estimate that without a heart transplant, 15-year-old Anthony Stokes will die within three to six months from heart failure. Yet...
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Hospital Reverses Decision, Adds 15-Year-Old Anthony Stokes To Heart...
Without giving a reason, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta reversed its decision to deny 15-year-old Anthony Stokes a new heart. “We met with hospital officials about 30 minutes ago,” family spokesman...
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40% Of White Americans Have Zero Non-White Friends
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week reveals that nearly 40 percent of white Americans have zero friends of color. It’s unlikely that anyone with a basic understanding of modern-day race relations...
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Police Fatally Shoot Man In Front Of Wife And Daughters
Authorities in Hayward, California are investigating the shooting death of Donny Gene Simmons Jr, a father of two who was shot dead Wednesday night by Hayward Police in front of his wife and two young...
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Teacher Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail For Raping 14-Year-Old; Judge Blames Victim
(Updated below) Fifty-four-year-old Stacey Dean Rambold, a former high school teacher in Montana, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for raping 14-year-old Cherice Morales. That’s right, just 30 days....
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Youth Activists Cut From March On Washington Ceremony Post Kick-Ass Speeches...
Philip Agnew of the Dream Defenders and Sofia Campos of United We Dream were scheduled to speak at yesterday’s commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. Both are youth led...
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NYPD Allegedly Beat Muslim Teen Girls, Ripped Off Their Hijabs And Maced...
A group of Muslim teens were allegedly beaten up by NYPD officers on Monday, August 26, while playing handball in a Bronx park, and had their hijabs, or Muslim headscarves, torn off in the process....
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Florida Attorney General Postpones Execution To Attend Campaign Fundraiser
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is getting an earful for postponing the execution of a death row inmate for another month in order to attend a fundraiser for her re-election campaign. This came as a...
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De Blasio Wants To Replace Ray Kelly With Bill Bratton, ‘The Father of...
Former Los Angeles police chief William “Bill” Bratton is a staunch supporter of stop and frisk—a practice that intensifies racial profiling and police brutality towards black and brown people while...
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The Countries Fueling Syria’s War Have Done the Least to Help Syrian Refugees
As conditions continue to deteriorate for Syrian refugees, appeals for humanitarian aid are growing louder. Meanwhile, the countries most involved in fueling the violence inside Syria are the least...
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A Majority Of Private Prison Contracts Include ‘Lockup Quotas’ To Guarantee...
In the Public Interest (ITPI) released a damning report that reveals an overwhelming majority of contracts between for-profit prisons and local governments include “lockup quotas” and “low crime...
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Half of Food Stamp Recipients Are Children
Last night, House Republicans passed a bill that cuts $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, one of the few safety nets available to the...
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US Military Doctors Designed And Facilitated Torture Under Bush And Obama,...
In violation of international law and medical ethics, US military physicians, psychiatrists and psychologists designed and facilitated the torture of detainees at US detention facilities around the...
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As World Obsesses Over Chemical Weapons, Polio And Starvation Plague Syria
“Chronic diseases have been the silent killer in the current crisis in Syria, taking the lives of an estimated 200,000 patients, much more than the 120,000 people killed by bombs, ballistic missiles...
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US Border Patrol To Keep Using Deadly Force Against Rock-Throwers
Border Patrol Chief Mike Fisher says his agents will continue to use lethal force against rock-throwers on the US-Mexico border because rocks are apparently “lethal weapons”. Fisher was responding to...
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