USA: A black teenager was listening to rap music- a white man allegedly killed him for it
- P.R. Lockhart
The suspect in Elijah Al-Amin’s killing reportedly said anyone who listens to rap music is “a threat to him and the community.”
A white man suspected of killing a black teenager in Arizona reportedly claimed that he felt “unsafe” ...
The racism in Trump’s attacks should be impossible to deny
- P.R. Lockhart
But for many media outlets and politicians, it somehow wasn’t.
In the day since President Donald Trump issued a series of racist tweets claiming that four Democratic women of color in Congress should “go back and help fix the totally broken ...
Night and Fog Operation in the U.S.A.: Thousands are targeted as ICE prepares to raid undocumented migrant families
- Caitlin Dickerson - Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday, according to two current and one former homeland security officials, moving forward with a rapidly changing operation, the final details ...
Squalid conditions at border detention centers, U.S. government report finds
- Zolan Kanno-Youngs
WASHINGTON — Overcrowded, squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its report describes standing-room-only ...
Trump’s ‘Concentration Camps’
- Charles M. Blow
The cruelty of immigrant family separations must not be tolerated.
Protesters outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, in Homestead, Fla., on Sunday.Credit Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
I have often wondered why good ...
U.S. requiring social media information from visa applicants
- Sandra E. Garcia
Visa applicants to the United States are required to submit any information about social media accounts they have used in the past five years under a State Department policy that started on Friday.
Such account information would give the government ...
Company part-owned by Jared Kushner got $90m from unknown offshore investors since 2017
- Jon Swaine
Overseas investment flowed to Cadre while Trump’s son-in-law works as US envoy, raising conflict of interest questions
A real estate company part-owned by Jared Kushner has received $90m in foreign funding from an opaque offshore vehicle since ...
The Mueller Report, Alfa Bank, and the Deep State
- Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott is considered the father of “Deep Politics” — the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected, appointed, and career officials who come and go. ...
Abortion: white panic over demographic dilution?
- Manuel Garcia, Jr
What is behind the bigotry masquerading as sanctimonious religiosity fervently opposed to abortion in the United States?
One motivation for US conservatives’ opposition to abortion – “a woman’s right to choose” – ...
Rand Corp. tells U.S. how to “overextend and unbalance” Russia
- Manlio Dinucci Μάνλιο Ντινούτσι مانليو دينوتشي
“The work builds on the concept of long-term strategic competition developed during the Cold War, some of which originated at RAND.”
Force your opponent to stretch too far and lose his balance, then take him down. This is no judo ...
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