Tag: race
The growing myth of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Donald Trump’s lack of curiosity or basic knowledge of the world becomes most dangerous, exacerbating tensions in faraway places that he simply doesn’t understand and views through a prism created by right wing hacks (and his own long held racist views).
Family of innocent man awarded $14.35M settlement after deputies fatally shot...
"We are always striving to improve how we handle split-second life and death situations in an effort to prevent similar tragedies from occurring.”
How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses
The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana – where officers jail witnesses to crimes – could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother.
Take her name out of your mouth:’ Family of Mollie Tibbetts...
"Mollie's death is not political propaganda to bring up your 'build the wall' bullshit."
Protecting and serving white supremacy
The connections between the police and the far right expose not only the sympathies of individual officers, but the social role of the police.
Donald Trump’s white nationalist White House: Still in full effect
A Trump speechwriter quits after attending a conference known for promoting racism. It’s not like he was all alone.
The money behind neo-Confederate Corey Stewart’s US Senate campaign
The nation's highest-level 2018 contest to emphasize themes of white power is Virginia's U.S. Senate race – Republican Corey Stewart.
Police determine officer was driving at ‘unsafe speed’ when striking teen
"Our training is designed to prevent this sort of thing from happening. We are going to make sure our training – and the officer’s adherence to that training – is as solid as it can be.”
Unite the Right organizer: ‘DeAndre Harris was a miscarriage of justice.’
"General District Judge Robert H. Downer Jr. said Friday that it was clear Harris did not intend to harm the complainant."
One year from Charlottesville: Hate is on the run – but...
White supremacist and nationalist groups had not gone away after the Civil Rights era, they just went underground – until their voice had been given the greatest megaphone of modern times.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.