I’m sorry that so much is still so desperately wrong, unfair and miserable for so many but grateful to see that people are no longer patiently waiting for change to be handed down from on high.
I pray for the safety and healing of all involved in these violent altercation in Ferguson and elsewhere. I hope that this time the hidden and ignored misery of so many will truly be addressed and changed instead of swept back under the rug when the people vacate the streets.
Blessings,
ohnwentsya
Henry A. Giroux on The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Victoria Harper, Truthout: Discussing his new book, Henry A. Giroux argues that what unites racist killings, loss of privacy, the surveillance state’s rise, the increasing corporatization of US institutions and growing poverty and inequality “is a growing threat of authoritarianism – or what might be otherwise called totalitarianism with elections.”
As Police Continue Ferguson Crackdown, Protesters Vow to Keep Taking the Streets
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: People in Ferguson, Missouri, have been protesting for 10 days now and are showing no sign of stopping, following the killing 18-year-old Michael Brown, by a local police officer. Protesters have made their point: If there is no justice for Michael Brown, there will be no peace.
The Killing of Black Men Continues
Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World: It doesn’t matter that there is an African-American president of the United States or that blacks run Fortune 500 companies or are pace-setters as high paid entertainers and athletes; the killing of black men continues.
Police in Ferguson Are Firing Tear Gas Canisters Manufactured During the Cold War Era
Joanne Stocker and Robin Jacks, Truthout: Analysis of less-lethal weapons deployed against residents of Ferguson, Missouri, reveals that police are using decades-old tear gas and riot control agents that may pose health risks to the community.
Laura Flanders | Activist Mab Segrest Discusses Civil Rights, History of Structural Racism in the US
Laura Flanders, GRITtv: From police killings, to Stand Your Ground laws, to Medicaid refusal in majority-minority states, 50 years after Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act, activist Mab Segrest says structural racism is not just a problem for Missouri.
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“Unraveling”: Anti-Trafficking NGOs and the Garment Industry
Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Mendes, Truthout: “Our Fashion Year” – the year-long comics journalism investigation into connections between the garment trade and the sex trade – finally comes back home in this strip. In “Unraveling,” the threads that tie anti-human trafficking organizations to the international garment trade finally give way.
The Ferguson Effect on Our Great-Grandchildren
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Not only are the people of Ferguson dealing with the traumatic death of Michael Brown and the resulting violent reactions to that death, they’re also dealing with debilitating poverty. Unfortunately, both of those experiences are likely to stick within the DNA of the Ferguson community for decades to come, thanks to something called epigenetics.
“Overpoliced and Underprotected”: In Michael Brown Killing, Neglect of Black Communities Laid Bare
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: As violence continues against protesters in Ferguson, we turn to john a. powell, professor of law, African-American studies and ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. “The black community tends be overpoliced and underprotected,” powell says. “That’s a very serious problem.”
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How the New Monopoly Capitalism Will Crush You to Smithereens
Lynn Parramore, AlterNet: Journalist and author Barry Lynn sounds the alarm about one of the greatest threats to our liberty today: “When one or a handful of players dominate the marketplace, get ready for higher prices, low-quality products and crap wages for you and me.”
The American Cult of Bombing: Why You Should Expect More Bombs to Be Dropped Everywhere
William J. Astore, TomDispatch: The latest US campaign in Iraq is an innovative profit center for the US arms industry and a jobs-creation exercise of the first order: we provide the weapons, we destroy them, then we provide more.
The Way the Wind Blows May Not Be Enough to Prevent Ocean “Dead Zones” From Growing
Raquel Vaquer-Sunyer, The Conversation: Taking everything into account, it seems that the process of warming oceans under climate change will inexorably lead to larger areas of oxygen-poor ocean, with all the knock-on effects for marine life that entails.
Social Security Still Going Strong at 70
Lisa Graves, PR Watch: For more than 30 years, opponents of Social Security have peddled the lie that the Social Security Trust Fund is going bankrupt or is nearly insolvent. The truth is that Social Security wasn’t broke in 1980, 1990 or 2012, and it’s not broke today.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Wind Power Is One Step Closer to Coal Country, and More
In today‘s On the News segment: Wyoming recently approved a permit for a massive wind farm, which could eventually power nearly a million homes; Keystone XL could be even worse than we thought; a new documentary shows that music has the power to help people suffering from Alzheimer’s and other disorders; and more.
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BuzzFlash
Most Whites Still Don’t Understand the Dangers of Being a Black Man in the US
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The murder of Michael Brown, and the disastrous aftermath of police oppression in Ferguson, Missouri, reminds us that we cannot continue in a state of “snug unawareness” if we are to achieve full equality under the law – and in reality.
Police in the US: Preserving and Protecting Disorder
Israel Bars Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch From Entering Gaza, Hindering Investigations
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Eugene Robinson | The Rage in Ferguson Comes From the Ones Left Behind
Willie Nelson, Neil Young to Help Raise Money for Anti-Keystone Fight
In Ferguson, the Violence of the State Created the Violence of the Street
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WHO Says Ebola Has Killed More Than 1,200
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Falling Stars: GOP’s Top 2016 Hopefuls Embroiled in Scandal
Spirit In Action 