Category: violence
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
NASA Triumphantly Unveils Full Set of Webb’s First Images “It’s like the difference between traveling three versus 300 miles per hour,” she says. “And now we’re going to actually take this thing out on the racetrack. So how deep, how far can we go when we crank it up and push it hard? I’m as…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Mass shootings are America’s parade of horribles It is a fact that the U.S. is armed for battle and that the homeland is threatened, but the assailant is neither an abusive king nor a foreign enemy. Americans have taken up weapons of war against their neighbors. #fourthofjuly #massshootings #Gunviolence #theunitedstates The “Sniper Frontier” competition of the Army Games…
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Random Thoughts on Black Men: Pride Edition
It’s time to return to “Random Thoughts on Black Men.” In previous articles, I questioned why some brothas feared dogs, why some brothas wore socks with sandals, and some brothas felt the need to Hotep or black men’s colorism towards darker-skinned black women. In 2021, I did the third post on this topic where I praised brothas just…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Summit of the Americas highlights US disconnect with Latin America Fourteen leaders of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), followed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Bolivian Luis Arce and Honduran Xiomara Castro, announced that they would not participate if Washington persisted in its drive to exclude other nations. #SummitoftheAmericas #Presidente #LatinAmerica #Politics 1 Killed, 30 Injured As Car…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do THOSE OF US who have been calling for the defunding of police departments — indeed for police abolition in favor of real, collective public safety practices — have been treated by Democratic and Republican leaders and commentators alike as fanatical #massshooting #DefundThePolice #Texas Colombia presidential election: Leftist Petro and…
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Let’s Talk About Sex
Sex Ed is a Joke It’s been a couple of decades since I was a teenager, but I remember watching the movie Mean Girls when I was on a date in my early 20s. It was the scene where the gym teacher told a group of students, “If you have the sex, you’ll get pregnant…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh laid to rest Thousands of people gathered for Abu Akleh’s funeral on Friday, including family, friends, and those who only knew Abu Akleh as a mainstay for 15 years in Al Jazeera’s coverage of the occupied Palestinian territories and the lives of everyday Palestinians #Palestine #ShireenAbuAkleh #Israel Prison riot kills…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part III
New World Order If you watch the mainstream media in the United States, the average citizen would be blissfully unaware of the sea change in geopolitics happening thanks to the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The global south has refused to condemn Russian actions against the nation of Ukraine. I deep dove into Europe’s latest war in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Two Palestinian women killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank “It’s gotten to a point where nobody is safe – not Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Palestinians in Gaza, not Palestinians in the West Bank, and not Palestinians in forced exile,” #palestine #Israel #WestBank #Conflict Poll: 7% of U.S. adults say they’ve had ‘long COVID.’ That’s 18…
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Reflections on the Empire: Part II
Empire Babies “The world is a freak show, and if you live in the United States. You have a front-row seat.” The quote at the beginning of this essay is to paraphrase the late great comedian George Carlin. We citizens of the U.S are empire babies, and too many of us don’t realize we have a…
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