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Violence
Suspicious Details Emerge after Three Men Burned Alive in Pakistan
A human-rights investigator alleges government complicity in the burning alive of three Sindhi men in Pakistan.
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Key Mistakes Sway Jury in Zimmerman Trial
A Southern jury was prohibited from considering race in the Zimmerman trial.
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Travesty in “Post-Racial” America: the Zimmerman Verdict
Black America and people of good will of all races watched in utter dismay as the jury in the George Zimmerman Trial issued its verdict of not guilty in …
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Americans Need to See the Violence of War, Police and Torture
We constantly fail to acknowledge the atrocities of war , street violence, and human rights abuses that our own government is committing.
Who Started the Fires in Sweden?
If it takes a riot to force public consciousness, it will take a movement to bring justice to the streets.
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Henry A. Giroux | In the Dead Zone of Capitalism: Lessons on the Violence of Inequality from Chicago
Rahm Emanuelu2019s actions in Chicago also mimic neoliberal policies that are playing out in other cities across the US.
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A Sequel to “Senselessness”: Fiction and Genocide in Guatemala
Horacio Castellanos Moya's extraordinary novel, 'Senselessness', could almost be said to be predictive of the overturning of former Guatemalan dictator's Efrain Rios Montt's conviction for genocide and crimes against …
Interview: The Women Who Rewrote Cambodian Law – and the Men Who Censored Them
Anne Elizabeth Moore shares her insights into working with, and writing about, a new generation of courageous Cambodian women as well as the white men who seek to protect …
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London’s Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?
There is nothing to be gained by labeling Wednesday's brutal attack in London.
Terrorism in Boston
Powers and Ascao suggest there are a number of lessons we can draw from the responses to the horrible attack on Boston. However, like the violence itself, none of …