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US Black police groups call for ex-Black Panther jailed for 48 years to be released
Aug 26, 2021 14:53Almost two thirds of New Jersey prisoners serving life sentences are Black. Yet over the past 40 years the rate of prisoners granted release by the New Jersey Parole Board has plummeted – from 42% in the 1980s to just 7% between 2012 and 2019.
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Taliban close Kabul airport road to Afghans to block their evacuation
Aug 26, 2021 14:06The Taliban have moved to prevent Afghans from leaving the country by joining the US-led airlift, declaring the route to Kabul airport only open to foreigners. The Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said: “The road that ends at Kabul airport has been blocked. Foreigners can go through it but Afghans are not allowed to take the road.”
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Biden faces pressure to extend Afghanistan evacuation mission as Taliban warns against doing so
Aug 25, 2021 09:45The United States faced mounting global pressure on Monday (Aug. 23, 2021) to extend its evacuation mission in Afghanistan past President Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline, despite a Taliban warning against doing so.
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G20 must prioritize global COVID action at October meeting
Aug 25, 2021 09:31It is ridiculous for the US to chase after its own vaccine skeptics without at the same time doing more to bring the benefits of this scientific achievement to the rest of the world.
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Freezing Afghanistan’s wealth: US scrambles to hit hard with “soft” power
Aug 25, 2021 09:23As the U.S. government is left scrambling, watching its 2.2 trillion dollar war effort turn out to have meant nothing and seeking to pick up the pieces, it is now behaving very dangerously. The U.S. may not have a physical presence inside of Afghanistan in the future, but the fear is that its economic sanctions may end up being more deadly than its armed forces.
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US humiliation in Afghanistan could be a turning point in world history
Aug 24, 2021 14:44It's just over three decades since the Soviet Union was driven out of Afghanistan in a moment of epic national humiliation. Thirty-two years on and recently the United States has suffered the identical fate.
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Adding to US failures in Afghanistan, Taliban have grabbed billions in weaponry
Aug 24, 2021 04:09The Taliban are now in effective control of billions of dollars in U.S. weaponry—from thousands of grenades and machine guns to Black Hawk helicopters—American forces poured into Afghanistan over the past two decades.
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Latest US misstep in Afghanistan just one of many
Aug 23, 2021 10:42The criticisms against US President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan are coming from all corners. But most are missing the point.
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Report: Trump admin deployed feds to bring harsher charges on BLM protesters
Aug 23, 2021 10:12The Trump administration used federal police and courts to deliberately target supporters of the movement for Black lives in order to “disrupt and discourage” Black organizing and freedom movements, according to a new report by Movement for Black Lives and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) clinic at the City University of New York School of Law.
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War party still runs Washington
Aug 22, 2021 14:24Biden is assuring us that the so-called "War on Terror" will continue. This has serious implications not only for American foreign policy, but also the society, politics, and legal system in US.