On Wednesday, March 27, hundreds of inmates at the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico, engaged in a peaceful demonstration against poor treatment. Somewhere between 250 to 500 prisoners refused to leave the recreation yard in a demonstration that lasted for over 12 hours. The Center, which houses over 1,100 minimum-security federal prisoners (all […]
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As we mourn the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the establishment media elite seem to agree that the Iraq war was a mistake. But that is about as far as they will go in their criticism. Meanwhile, the mainstream rarely reports on the suffering of the Iraqi people or the U.S.-led pillaging […]
The right-wing New York Post has beat the New York Times and other local outlets in reporting on the Brooklyn protest currently happening against the police killing of Kimani Gray. Judging by the Post’s report, it sounds the apocalypse is unfolding in Brooklyn.
The US establishment loves to hate on Hugo Chavez for his economic policies that favor the poor. Don’t get me wrong, Chavez was not perfect. But he overcame huge obstacles to reduce poverty in Venezuela. That’s no easy feat in Latin America as Naomi Klein demonstrates in the first half of “The Shock Doctrine”. Following […]
Mainstream media coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict gives the false impression that things are just now heating up between the two sides following the torture and death of 30-year-old Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat in Israeli custody. As usual, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi, 33, embarked on a hunger strike over 203 days ago to protest Israel’s inhumane treatment of detainees, making it one of the longest hunger strikes in human history. If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of Samer Issawi, it’s probably because western media outlets are ignoring his plight as if to […]
Buzzfeed has published a shameful piece by Rosie Gray equating critics of LAPD corruption with being fans of Dorner and endorsing cop-killing. Gray attacked Salon’s Natasha Lennard for writing “a couple of stories sympathetic to Dorner’; accused Marc Lamont Hill of defending cop-killing; and says Vice portrayed Dorner as a hero. Of course none of these things are true. […]
After yesterday’s standoff between law enforcement and Chris Dorner came to a fiery end, there were many questions that remained unanswered. The one weighing most heavily on the minds of those following the case is whether or not police started the fire that burned alive the man believed to be Chris Dorner. There is evidence […]
Since the manhunt for former police officer turned cop-killer Chris Dorner started, the establishment media has expressed shock and confusion at the level of animosity directed at the Los Angeles Police Department. Some have even equated this animosity with support for Dorner’s killing spree. In a piece titled “Fugitive’s Rant Puts Focus on Evolving LAPD […]
A family of six was killed in the Gaza Strip on Thursday when their house caught fire from a burning candle during a power outage.
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