World - Part 15

Starving Yemen
Yemen is starving to death. More accurately, Yemen is being starved to death.  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf States, has deliberately chosen to weaponize starvation in its war against Yemen’s Iran-backe ...[Read more]
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Abolishing and recreating the police in US may be the only answer
When some advocate for abolishing the police in response to police brutality, discrimination or corruption, it sounds pretty extreme. For, there is indeed crime in our world, and there needs to be a way for the society to respond to crime. However… Wh ...[Read more]
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US police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals
A data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website has revealed that serving police officers and public officials have donated money to fundraisers for accused vigilante murderers, far-right activists, and fellow officers accused of shooting black American ...[Read more]
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Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals
Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people—a failsafe th ...[Read more]
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Killed over a Car Air Freshener: Outrage Grows over Police Shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota
Protests continue in the Minneapolis area after a white police officer shot and killed a 20-year-old Black man, Daunte Wright, during a traffic stop Sunday in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. The deadly shooting took place about 10 miles from where former M ...[Read more]
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The White Tiger Is a Window Into India’s Class Society
Movies about class and inequality are back in the mainstream. Taking inspiration from writers like Balzac as well as the father of Indian neorealism, Satyajit Ray, Ramin Bahrani’s film The White Tiger is a powerful interrogation of the injustices of cla ...[Read more]
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The United States as a mass-killing machine
By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason's simple enough. No matter what mayhem I describe, with so much all-American weaponry in this world of ours, there's no way to keep up. Often, despite the headlines that go with m ...[Read more]
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Virginia Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Army Officer Fired After Damning Video Released
A Virginia police officer who pepper-sprayed and threatened a uniformed Black and Latinx Army officer during a routine traffic stop was fired Sunday after video footage of the incident was published, sparking nationwide outrage. WAVY reports Windsor poli ...[Read more]
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How Cuba Beat the Pandemic: From Developing New Vaccines to Sending Doctors Overseas to Help Others
Since last year, approximately 440 Cubans have died from COVID-19, giving Cuba one of the lowest death rates per capita in the world. Cuba is also developing five COVID-19 vaccines, including two which have entered stage 3 trials. Cuba has heavily investe ...[Read more]
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Bolsonaro a ‘Threat to the Planet,’ Says Lula as Brazil’s Daily Covid Death Toll Hits All-Time High
"Unfortunately, our country is today considered a global threat, due to the uncontrolled circulation of the virus and the emergence of new mutations." ...[Read more]
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‘Yemen Is Being Starved’: 70+ Democrats Urge Biden to Demand End to Saudi-Led Blockade
"Every day that we wait for these issues to be resolved in negotiations is another day that pushes more children to the brink of death." Led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), the letter (pdf) cites a recent ...[Read more]
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