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The Intercept TOO LITTLE IS known about the death of Layleen Polanco. This we know: The 27-year-old Afro-Latina transgender woman was found dead in solitary confinement last Friday afternoon at Rikers Island Jail. Polanco was being held on $500 bail...
The Middle East Eye As attention has been locked on protests in Khartoum, there has been increasing violence away from Sudan's capital amid a security vacuum that tribal leaders accuse the country's ruling military council of benefiting from. Clashes have flared in...
The Nation If you haven’t watched Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries When They See Us, or Ken Burns’s documentary The Central Park Five, you need to. Go ahead, grab some tissues, I’ll wait. We good? What you just saw was a story of how gross prosecutorial...
The ever increasing surveillance state we live in is something many either choose to ignore or pay no mind because they are not the ones being targeted. For many others, that is not an option, and as the Nation reports, the ways in which the US government is...
The Ghion Journal The MSNBC website’s caption for the recent pro-Assange Rachel Maddow segment was hilariously begrudging. The caption reads: “as detestable a character as Assange may be, the charges are an assault on American press liberties.” Now that many...
The Grayzone The corporate media’s editorial standards for reporting on Official Enemies of the US government, especially North Korea, are as low as ever. Blatantly false stories are regularly circulated by leading news outlets without any kind of...
The Real News Network Six weeks have passed since Indonesia held a general election, and it took over a month for the official results to be announced. And when these results were finally announced on May 20, two days of violence broke out between police and...
CounterPunch The Yellow Vests movement (Gilets jaunes) began in November 2018. Prior to the first occupations of roundabouts across France, a petition taking a stand against the rise of fuel prices was posted on line by a member of the public. Almost a million signed...
Democracy Now! Nearly 100 animal rights activists were freed today, after being arrested by police in riot gear for carrying out a rescue mission and protest at the Reichardt Duck Farm in Petaluma, California, which they accuse of engaging in animal torture. More than...
Truthdig In the years leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia spent something on the order of $50 billion to turn the sleepy Black Sea vacation town of Sochi into a glittering destination resort full of high-end amenities, luxury housing, international cuisine,...