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17 July 2013
White privilege: Innocent; Trayvon Martin: Guilty
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Dennis Trainor, Jr.
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I can't say I was surprised at the verdict. Because, to apply the famous words of George Zimmerman, these assholes always get away. There is a lot of blame to go around...
17 July 2013
Investigate the racial context behind Martin's death
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Jesse Jackson
If Trayvon Martin were not a young black male, he would be alive today. Despite the verdict, it's clear that George Zimmerman would never have confronted a young white man wearing a hoodie. He would, at the very least, have listened to the...
17 July 2013
Embedded Racism
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Robert Koehler
Did the ghosts of our slave-holding and Jim Crow past high-five each other in the Florida courtroom on Saturday? George Zimmerman was acquitted, but does that mean that American history was, too?

The experts who weighed in...
14 July 2013
A Conspiracy Primer
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Joseph E. Green
"I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II ... It is characteristic of the military...
13 July 2013
Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough -- We Need the Power to Stop It
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Norman Solomon
For more than a month, outrage has been profuse in response to news about NSA surveillance and other evidence that all three branches of the U.S. government are turning Uncle Sam into Big Brother.

Now what?

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13 July 2013
Privacy, Security and Sanity
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Robert Koehler
What I keep longing to hear, in the hemorrhaging national debate about Edward Snowden, whistleblowing and the NSA, is some acknowledgment of what the word “security” actually means, and what role — if any — the government should play in...

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