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Archives for November 2014

How To Deal With Friends’ Racist Reactions To Ferguson

Michael Brown’s death didn’t cause a divide between you and the people in your social networks. It simply revealed one. Use the information you’re getting to decide which relationships you value.

Jenee Desmond-Harris for The Root
By Jenee Desmond-Harris for The Root
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Dear Race Manners: I have been so offended and angered by what some of my friends on Facebook have said about Michael Brown and the situation in Ferguson (he was a thug, he deserved it, black people destroy their own communities, blacks are criminals, all the police officers in Ferguson should quit because blacks don’t appreciate them and

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VIDEO: Police Beat Man & 7-Month Pregnant Wife Then Deleted The Video, But It Survived On The Cloud

The seven-and-a-half-months pregnant woman approached the beating zone, and was swept 25-year-old Lazos-Guerroro’s legs out from under her. The obviously pregnant woman then fell hard onto her stomach and face, as and began to scream in agony.

Matt Agorist
By Matt Agorist
CaptureCapture

Reports: Denver, CO — The Denver police department has been accused of using excessive force after a video, which they allegedly deleted, survived on the cloud and was turned into FOX 31.  The incident started as two officers approached David Nelson Flores, who was in his vehicle with his seven-and-a-half-months pregnant wife and their child,

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Obama Quietly Hiking US Troop Numbers In Afghanistan

Reuters reveals the US is moving forward with plans to boost troop presence in Afghanistan beyond levels pledged to the public.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
U.S. Soldiers at Forward Operating Base in Baylough, Afghanistan, June 16, 2010.

President Obama announced in May that U.S. "combat operations" in Afghanistan will come to an end at the conclusion of 2014. However, a new revelation that the U.S. is quietly planning to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan above publicly pledged levels through 2015 is just the latest indication that the conclusion of that war is, in fact,

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Extending Nuclear Talks With Iran Is The First Good News From The Middle East In A Long Time

The deal will mean Iran agrees to make abundantly verifiable the entirely peaceful character of its civilian nuclear energy program and thereby cancel out Western suspicions that Iran’s ambition is for a weapon.

Jo-Ann Hart
By Jo-Ann Hart
John Kerry

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — The international nuclear negotiations with Iran are close enough to succeed so the talks are being extended to next year. The new deadlines are March for a political agreement and June for the full final signatures. The deal will mean Iran agrees to make abundantly verifiable the entirely peaceful character of its

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Occupy Kenya: Protesters March In Nairobi For An End To Violence

A march and sit-in dubbed Tumechoka, meaning ‘We are tired’ in Swahili, protests government inaction in the face of rising insecurity and terrorism in Kenya.

Tristan McConnell
By Tristan McConnell
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Apathy and thuggery greeted an attempt to kickstart an Occupy movement in Kenya to protest against government inaction in the face of rising insecurity and terrorism. The march and sit-in dubbed #Tumechoka, meaning “We are tired” in Swahili, was called on Tuesday after the execution of 28 people on a bus in Mandera in the far

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Ferguson’s Isn’t Just About Race — It’s About Guns Too

These charts show just how bad gun violence is in the US, compared to developed peers.

Simran Khosla
By Simran Khosla

The world's eyes have turned once more to Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury decided Tuesday not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in August. The decision sparked a night of violent unrest in Ferguson, with photos emerging of the St. Louis suburb on fire, and its

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