RSN: Busting the Bureau of Land Management's Frackopoly, Ferguson Holds Up a Mirror to Our Militarized Police State

An UNARMED YOUNG MAN....BLACK....raises his hands....is SHOT DEAD!


AMERICA'S RACISM ON DISPLAY!

AMERICA'S MILITARIZED LILY WHITE POLICE STATE RESPONDS!

I listened to one report indicated that protesters were throwing STONES....Huh?

Have we become so threatened by one another we no longer know how to respond reasonably?

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Carl Gibson | Ferguson Holds Up a Mirror to Our Militarized Police State

Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "The night after unarmed 17-year-old Michael Brown was shot to death by police with his hands in the air, a march down a main road led by a Missouri state senator was indiscriminately attacked with tear gas."
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Ferguson Police Fire Teargas and Rubber Bullets at Michael Brown Protesters
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine reports: "A heavily armed, militarized police force fired teargas and rubber bullets to force hundreds of protesters out of the centre of a small Missouri town on Wednesday, as a crackdown on demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old intensified."
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UN: Ukraine Death Toll Doubled in Past Week
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Germanos reports: "The death toll from ongoing conflict in Ukraine has nearly doubled in the past week, the United Nations human rights office said Wednesday."
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White House: Iraq Rescue Not Needed
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "The Obama administration has ruled out for now a risky US military mission to rescue thousands of Iraqis stranded on a northern Iraqi mountain, declaring a siege by Islamist extremists to be over."
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Renewed Gaza Truce Holds After Rocky Start
Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell, Reuters
Excerpt: "A new, five-day truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to give Egyptian-brokered peace negotiations in Cairo more time to try to end the Gaza war."
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Wenonah Hauter | Busting the Bureau of Land Management's Frackopoly
Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch
Hauter writes: "Some 38 million acres of that land is currently leased, and over the past three years, the oil and gas industry has drilled over three thousand new wells, 90 percent of which have been (or will be) fracked."
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