Israel's discriminatory behavior towards black people, including the lack of concern for captured Ethiopian-Israeli soldier Avera Mengistu, is rooted in the country's institutionalized racism towards African asylum seekers and Ethiopian Jews,
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The snowballing investigations into Trump, Biden, Pence, and others over their mishandling of classified documents present us with a unique opportunity.
The post Classified Documents Scandals Point to Larger Culture of Impunity appeared first on The Intercept.
The world is losing one of the greatest musicians, rhythmic theorists, and just lovely and decent human beings ever to exist.
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Children are perceptive. Pretending everything is normal and insisting there is only one Blippi when your child can tell there are now two will only serve to confuse and frustrate them.
When your child begins to realize that the Blippi they have come to know and love has been replaced by a weird, half-assed facsimile of Original Blippi, they may start blaming themselves:
I want you to ask yourself this question: what makes someone your enemy? Really think about it for a bit before continuing. Have an answer.
An enemy is someone who is doing you you harm, or intends to do you harm. If they have the ability to do you harm, they will act on it.
Note what this definition does not include. It says nothing about hate or anger or emotional state. It does not matter why someone is or wants or intends to harm you, all that matters is that they do.
It does also not matter if you are collateral damage: if they don’t even know you personally exist. If they’re willing to harm you to get what they want, without caring one way or another about you, they’re your enemy.
"The video must be that bad," said law professor Sherrilyn Ifill. "But fired does not prevent rehiring elsewhere, and charged does not mean convicted. But more important than all, none of this brings back Tyre Nichols."
The post Fired Memphis Cops Charged With Second-Degree Murder for Killing Tyre Nichols appeared first on scheerpost.com.
New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data.
The post How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal Surveillance Program to Sweep Up Millions of Our Financial Records appeared first on scheerpost.com.
In a video address to a US corporate lobby group, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky thanked companies like BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Starlink, insisting “everyone can become a big business by” investing in Ukraine, where “we are defending freedom and property”.
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By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering. When confronted by hunger or the death of their children, earlier communities might have reflexively blamed nature or divinity, […]
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Braço do MP que fiscaliza as Forças Armadas não deu nem o primeiro passo para pedir punições pelo 8 de janeiro.
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This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.
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One protester was killed by police, 20 were charged under a “domestic terror” law, and Georgia’s governor gave himself broad “emergency” powers.
The post The Crackdown on Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because of the Movement’s Success appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Colin Grant
Em entrevista, o especialista em segurança pública Roberto Uchôa critica a 'festa das armas' que favoreceu o crime e defende parceria entre o poder público e a indústria armamentista.
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