Tag: current affairs – international

Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US

Denise A. Herd As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating Tyre Nichols to death, it is a stark reminder of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. That set up the largest protests in U.S. history and a national reckoning with racism. But beyond any protests, every police killing – indeed,… Read More Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US

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Look at how the world’s super-rich are doing now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged

Nesrine Malik According to Oxfam’s annual inequality report, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, the richest 1% of people have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined since the pandemic. Their fortune soared by $26tn, increasing their share of new wealth from 50% to two-thirds. The… Read More Look at how the world’s super-rich are doing now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged

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Beaten to death for a traffic violation: the irredeemable brutalisation of America

NB: There are millions of decent peace loving American citizens. But there have been more mass shootings this year, even before January is complete, than in any comparable period; and now this. This kind of behavior makes one realise that the impulse toward cruelty has overtaken American state and civil society. I can only hope… Read More Beaten to death for a traffic violation: the irredeemable brutalisation of America

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Could Trump be charged for racketeering? A Georgia prosecutor thinks so

Carlisa N. Johnson in Atlanta An Atlanta prosecutor appears ready to use the same Georgia statute to prosecute Donald Trump that she used last year to charge dozens of gang members and well-known rappers who allegedly conspired to commit violent crime. Fani Willis was elected Fulton county district attorney just days before the conclusion of the 2020 presidential… Read More Could Trump be charged for racketeering? A Georgia prosecutor thinks so

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If you ever doubt the hateful effects of Tory migrant policy, go to Calais and see what I’ve seen

Jeremy Corbyn Hell is a teargassed scrubland crawling with infectious disease. Hell is toddlers scavenging to survive. Hell is a refugee camp in Calais. Each time I visit, I learn more about the diabolical conditions that human beings are forced to endure in the camp. Having fled the horrors of war, environmental disaster and destitution, refugees… Read More If you ever doubt the hateful effects of Tory migrant policy, go to Calais and see what I’ve seen

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Can victims of crime hope for justice from a crumbling system?

Yvonne Roberts After police officer David Carrick’s conviction on 51 charges of rape and domestic abuse, the Met announced it was reviewing a further 1,633 cases of domestic and sexual abuse involving more than 800 officers. Every police force in England and Wales is reviewing allegations of domestic and sexual abuse relating to officers dating back a decade. Potentially,… Read More Can victims of crime hope for justice from a crumbling system?

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Ludicrous ideas, perpetual scandal: British Conservatives are in absolute freefall

John Harris You may not have heard of Nat Wei, AKA Lord Wei of Shoreditch. Until very recently, the 46-year-old Conservative peer – ennobled by David Cameron, for whom he once did some work on the concept of the “big society” – had certainly escaped my attention. But when he published a brief article on the activist… Read More Ludicrous ideas, perpetual scandal: British Conservatives are in absolute freefall

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Regime Change?

Mona Ali The evolution and weaponization of the world dollar The centerpiece of shock and awe of the West’s economic response to Russia’s invasion and bombardment of Ukraine was the freezing of Russia’s central bank assets. In the March 7 edition of his Global Money Dispatch newsletter, the Credit Suisse investment strategist Zoltan Pozsar writes that the… Read More Regime Change?

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