Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men
Aaron Cantú, Truthout: One jailhouse informant for the Detroit Police Department sent Lacino Hamilton to prison. Now, Hamilton’s fight to be released has revealed systemic corruption allegedly perpetrated by police, prosecutors and prisoner informants hoping for more lenient sentences.
Laura Flanders | The Fight Against High-Stakes Testing: A Civil Rights Movement
Laura Flanders, Truthout: Jesse Hagopian, history teacher and editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, talks about the fight against high-stakes testing, the roots of that testing in eugenics movement and its insidious anti-democratic and anti-labor social goals.
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Rounding Us Up, and Exposing Us All to Cancer
Brian Moench, Truthout: The World Health Organization has just declared the most widely used herbicide in the world, glyphosate, a “probable human carcinogen,” a designation long overdue. Cancer is only one of many health consequences of the growing scourge of herbicides, pesticides and GMOs.
It’s Time to Talk About the Next System
Cecilia Gingerich, Truthout: For systemic crises, relief will come only through systemic solutions. The Next System Project, which launches today, offers such solutions to the systemic climate, political, economic, social and cultural crises the United States is experiencing.
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Fatal Construction Accident Shows Higher Risks Faced by Latino Workers
Danica Jorden, Truthout: Three men were killed and one left in serious condition after a construction accident in Raleigh, North Carolina. The incident illustrates the differential risks still facing Latino workers, often employed by a tangled web of contractors and subcontractors.
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: If we want to prevent a new ice age for much of the planet, then we need to put a price on carbon now to fight back against climate change – the greatest threat our human species has ever faced.
Impunity Fuels Abuse in Immigrant Detention Centers in Spain
Inés Benítez, Inter Press Service: In Spain, immigrants are frequent victims of abuse and mistreatment by the national police, who are in charge of guarding them. Human rights organizations also complain about hurdles thrown in the way of investigations of reports of abuse and the prevailing impunity.
What the Atlantic Coast Should Brace for if Offshore Drilling Gets Approved
Wilma Subra, Facing South: Offshore energy exploration, drilling and production on the Atlantic coast will leave permanent environmental damage and destruction. The physical environment will be severely negatively impacted in the name of “progress,” with no consideration of the devastation.
Grabbing Africa’s Seeds: USAID, EU and Gates Foundation Back Agribusiness Seed Takeover
Stephen Greenberg and Oliver Tickell, The Ecologist: The latest salvo in the battle over Africa’s seed systems has been fired with the Gates Foundation and USAID playing puppet-masters to Africa’s governments as they drive forward corporation-friendly seed regulations that exclude and marginalize the small farmers whose seeds and labor feed the continent.
Court Steps in to #SaveH2B, but Is the US Guestworker Program Worth Saving?
Rachel Luban, In These Times: While many H-2B guestworkers are unhappy with the abuse and exploitation they suffer on the job, that doesn’t necessarily mean they want the program to go away, as the program often offers the only means of employment available for some workers.
Climate Change: When It’s All in the Family
Felix Kramer, The Houston Chronicle: Could heartfelt pleas from family members move the people who run the world to an urgent response to our climate crisis? The families and friends of movers and shakers have a unique opportunity: They can spur what may have already begun.
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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Either Confused or Misleading Everyone About His Controversial Law
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Midnight Deadline Looms Over Iran Nuclear Deal
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Pharmacy Groups Balk at Supplying Lethal Injection Drugs
Turns Out the World’s First “Clean Coal” Plant Is a Backdoor Subsidy to Oil Producers
A Court Case So Secret, the US Government Says It Can’t Go On
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US Pledges Emissions Cuts of Up to 28 Percent Ahead of Global Climate Treaty
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Honoring Cesar Chavez’s Birthday by Supporting the Farm Workers for Whom He Gave His Life
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