From Electoral Politics to Coronavirus Response: In Israel, Apartheid Mentality Reigns
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-27
Israel's longstanding political crisis didn't end due to some altruistic desire to pull together in a time of crisis, it ended because Israelis were faced with a choice, work with Arabs or throw it all away, writes Miko Peled.
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Release Prisoners Now to Slow Coronavirus' Spread
Jesse Jackson | commondreams.org | 2020-03-26
We should act now to ensure that incarceration does not turn into a death sentence for them. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Former Veterans Affairs police officer pleads guilty to excessive force
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-03-26
Nicholson faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing is currently scheduled for June 24.
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Gerald Horne's new book 'White Supremacy Confronted' relates apartheid to Jim Crow
Tony Pecinovsky | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-26
United States' support of the apartheid regime in South Africa intersected with Cold War geopolitics. Anti-communism bolstered racist oppression globally. Additionally, domestic Jim Crow and South African apartheid were two sides of the same anti-communist coin, a currency used to stifle African-American civil rights at home as well as Black liberation and anti-colonial struggles in …
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The Shit Has Hit the Fan: Shut the Country Down to Save Lives
Peter Crowley | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-26
All my life fear is all I've heard. Fear the immigrant, Muslims, foreignness, black people protesting, black athletes kneeling during the Anthem, germs, foreign travel to non-Western countries, terrorism, etc., etc. Before 9/11, as a teen in the late 1990s, it was fear of marijuana, public welfare abuse and, as always, inclement weather. There is…
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