By Rania Khalek on August 13, 2015
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Three months after Ferguson erupted in protest over the police killing of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) added an Israeli weapon called skunk to its protest-crushing arsenal, arms industry news website Defense One has confirmed. (more…)
By Jamelle Bouie on Auguts 9, 2015
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A year ago Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown. What has followed has been the greatest national reckoning on racism since the beating of Rodney King. On Aug. 9, one year ago, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown after a brief scuffle in the middle of a small street in Ferguson, Missouri. (more…)
Christian Appy on August 5, 2015
Seventy years ago this week we vaporized 250,000 civilians, and yet still view the bombings as an act of mercy. Here we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one step closer to a moral reckoning with our status as the world’s only country to use atomic weapons to slaughter human beings. (more…)
By Max J. Castro on August 4, 2015
I was being offered a free copy of the Wall Street Journal every day for the next several weeks. “How in the world?”, I thought. I am not exactly a high-flying financier. My opinions and the editorial positions of the WSJ are pretty much diametrically opposed on virtually every major issue, (more…)
By Catherine Shakdam on August 8 Aug, 2015
The US and Turkey have come to a tentative agreement in Syria, whereby Ankara is opening its territories to American troops in an attempt to defeat terror. Or is it that terror needs military backing to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad? It is difficult to tell these days. (more…)
By Arno Develay on Aug 7, 2015
Back at the beginning of August 1914, Europe was on the cusp of collective suicide yet it failed to grasp the severity of the situation in time to prevent disaster. In the years preceding WWI, European nations had engaged in intense coalition-building. France, along with (more…)
By Ron Jacobs on August 7, 2015
The United States Africa Command, otherwise known as AFRICOM, describes its mission like this: “United States Africa Command, in concert with interagency and international partners, builds defense capabilities, responds to crisis, and deters and defeats transnational threats in order to advance U.S. national interests and promote regional security, stability, and prosperity.” (more…)
August 8, 2015
Photo: Bill Hackwell
Eight days before Secretary of State John Kerry is to witness the hoisting of the stars and stripes at the reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana, the city’s official historian told EFE that Cuba has never harbored “an anti-American sentiment, but rather an anti-imperialist sentiment.” (more…)