2020-03-27: Social Media Postees

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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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2020-03-26: News Headlines

Peter Crowley (2020-03-26). The Shit Has Hit the Fan: Shut the Country Down to Save Lives. counterpunch.org 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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2020-03-26: Social Media Postees

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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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Last Process: 1 Postees: 2020-03-26 14:22 GMT (10:22 EST)

2020-03-25: News Headlines

Katie Fite (2020-03-24). Cashing in on Degrading Public Lands: How Welfare Ranchers Reap a Beef Bonanza From Weeds They Caused. counterpunch.org Gutting the Grazing Regulations BLM is preparing an EIS to eviscerate the already weak and often toothless public lands grazing regulations, strip nearly all controls from grazing permits, and add new grazing categories that will increase the livestock burden on public lands and the planet. Current BLM regulations are already heavily weighted towards satisfying the

Tim Libretti (2020-03-23). Can Democrats widen their appeal to embrace rural working-class America? peoplesworld.org We hear these days about the importance of the African-American vote within the Democratic base, and rightly so. This base has played a key role in the Democratic primaries and, according to all indications, will play a key role in determining the Democratic presidential candidate. Democratic candidates would also be wise, though, as well as …

Last Process: 2 Citations: 2020-03-26 02:54 GMT (22:54 EST)