An investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that 90 percent of students affected by public school closings in Chicago are African American, a rate that doesn’t match up with the city’s racial demographics (only 41.7 percent of the district’s student population is black). School closings are the latest trend among privatization and charter school advocates […]
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As the debate over drone strikes and targeted killings finally breaks into the mainstream, there remains a key aspect of the kill program that has been virtually ignored even by its most ardent detractors.
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 […]
Just last week President Obama unveiled the historic statue of famous civil rights icon Rosa Parks whose activism helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott, credited with propelling the civil rights movement to victory. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden today assured the right-wing pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), that Obama loves […]
The American public is so detached from the many wars being fought in their name that the killing of civilians abroad often goes unnoticed. The latest victims whose deaths barely registered in the national consciousness were two Afghan boys, identified as 11-year-old Toor Jan and his brother, 12-year-old Andul Wodood. They were walking their donkeys […]
Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old army private accused of leaking classified military documents and videos to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, stood before a military judge today and for the first time admitted to being the source of the leak. His admission has garnered headlines but the more interesting aspect of today’s proceeding was Manning’s 35-page-long statement […]
The Instagram photo posted by an Israeli soldier showing what appears to be a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of his rifle has sparked outrage, as it should. Ali Abunimah was the first to report on this at the Electronic Intifada and it has since gone viral with major news outlets picking up the story. […]
Yale University to Train U.S. Special Forces in Interrogation Techniques by Practicing on Immigrants
The Department of Defense and Yale University have partnered up to train U.S. soldiers in the art of interrogation techniques with the local immigrant community acting as test subjects, reports the Yale Daily News. As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The center’s primary goal would […]
The death last month of Robert Saylor, a 26-year-old Maryland man with down syndrome, has been ruled a homicide after the state medical examiner determined that Saylor died of asphyxia while in police custody. Cpl. Jennifer Bailey, a spokeswoman for the Federick County Sheriff’s office, said Friday that Saylor’s death is still under investigation. Meanwhile, the three officer’s […]
Police fired over 100 bullets at two Latina women mistaken for Christopher Dorner last week during their newspaper delivery route, according to their attorney, Glen Jonas.
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