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Black Detroit Woman Shot To Death While Seeking Help In White Neighborhood...
(There have been many developments since this story initially broke. See here.) If you thought what happened to Jonathan Ferrell last month was horrific, wait until you hear about the slaying of...
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Homeowner Who Killed Renisha McBride Claims Shotgun Discharged Accidentally
According to Dearborn Heights police, the man who shot and killed Renisha McBride over the weekend is claiming that his .12-gauge shotgun discharged accidentally. McBride died on his front porch from a...
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Yemeni Man To Meet With Congress About Drone Strike That Killed His Relatives
Faisal bin ali Jaber, a Yemeni man whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike, is traveling to the United States this week to tell his story to members of Congress and human rights activists at...
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Yemeni Drone Strike Victim Requests Meeting With Obama During DC Visit
Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a Yemeni engineer whose nephew and brother-in-law were killed in a US drone strike in Yemen last year, has requested a meeting with President Obama during his visit to Washington,...
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Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison While Corruption He Exposed...
Chicago activist Jeremy Hammond, 28, was sentenced earlier today to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in the hacking of the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Prior to his...
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VIDEO: Children Wade Through Swamps Of Raw Sewage In Streets of Central Gaza
This is absolutely sickening. Sewage treatment has long been a problem in the Gaza Strip thanks to the illegal blockade, enforced by Israel, Egypt and the United States. But the recent crackdown by the...
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Renisha McBride’s Killer Charged With Second-Degree Murder And Manslaughter
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced at a news conference earlier today that 54-year-old Theodore Wafer of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, will be charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter...
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US Prisoners Are Fighting Wildfires For 50 Cents An Hour
Across the western United States—from Colorado and Wyoming, to Montana and Washington—there is a growing reliance on prison labor to combat the rising threat of climate change-induced wildfires, which...
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US Media Whitewashes Israel’s Plan To Ethnically Cleanse 40,000 Of Its Arab...
With the Israeli government moving closer towards implementation of a massive ethnic cleansing campaign known as the Prawer-Begin Plan, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to spin the “Jewish and...
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Nearly 1 in 4 US Writers Has Self-Censored For Fear of Government Surveillance
A recently released survey of American writers conducted by PEN America Center in October found that government surveillance is having a chilling effect on freedom of expression. PEN surveyed over 500...
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Anti-Drone Protests In Pakistan Force US Military To Halt Cargo Shipments
The US military has suspended all cargo shipments out of Afghanistan due to a non-violent blockade imposed by activists protesting the US drone program in neighboring Pakistan. On Tuesday, Pentagon...
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Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD Has Been Charged With Assault Because Bullets Hit...
Glenn Broadnax, a 35-year-old black man from Brooklyn, was unarmed on the night of September 14 when NYPD officers shot at him in the middle of Times Square, striking two bystanders. Instead of...
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Black Man Charged With Attempted Murder of Cops Who Nearly Killed Him Says He...
(See update at bottom.) Andre Fiorentino, 32, says he was unarmed when two Coatesville, Pennsylvania, police officers opened fire on him last month outside his home. He was struck several times and...
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Jersey City Man Shot In the Face And Blinded By Cop Faces 30 Years In Prison
Kwadir Felton, 22, was shot in the face by Jersey City Police Sgt. Thomas McVicar on January 10, 2010, and went blind as a result. Yet it is Felton who faces up to 30 years in prison for aggravated...
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Prosecutor Says All Witnesses To Police Shooting Are Wrong Except For Cop Who...
Back in November, a cop in Battle Creek, Michigan shot 14-year-old Nicholas King in the shoulder because he was carrying a toy gun, which the officer says he mistook for a real one. Police were...
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West Va. Mother: ‘We live in a human sacrifice zone’
For our new weekly podcast, Firedoglake’s Kevin Gosztola and I interviewed a resident of West Virginia about the chemical spill that left 300,000 people without usable water for days after 7,500...
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How NSA Spying Impacts Muslim Communities and Cultivates Islamophobia
In the second episode of our new podcast, Firedoglake’s Kevin Gosztola and I speak with Gadeir Abbas, a staff attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), about the NSA surveillance...
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Unarmed Man Shot And Killed By Houston Cop For Wearing A Hoodie While Black
Jordan Baker, a 26-year-old Houston Community College student and father, “took his last breath in a trash-strewn alley behind a Northwest Houston strip center” on Thursday, January 16, all because he...
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Chicago Cops Strip Searched Three People In Public
Three people have filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department alleging that officers subjected them to publicly invasive strip searches last year. The suit calls the behavior of the officers...
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How the US Used Post-9/11 Hysteria to Treat Activists Like Terrorists
For the third episode of our new yet-to-be named podcast, FDL’s Kevin Gosztola and I speak with Kade Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, about how US...
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