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Where Were the Soldier-Cops at Bundy Ranch?
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "Nothing could better illustrate the reality of anti-African-American bias in America today than the stark contrast between what happened at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada and what is happening in Ferguson, Missouri. The response to those two events is a portal to the soul of a nation that still belongs to Jim Crow."
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Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "Nothing could better illustrate the reality of anti-African-American bias in America today than the stark contrast between what happened at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada and what is happening in Ferguson, Missouri. The response to those two events is a portal to the soul of a nation that still belongs to Jim Crow."
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Missouri Cops'
License to Kill
Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "The death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is not the first time an officer supervised by Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson has killed an unarmed man. And this is also not the first time that a cop under his command has sparked protests in which Rev. Al Sharpton played a leading role."
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Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
Daly writes: "The death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is not the first time an officer supervised by Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson has killed an unarmed man. And this is also not the first time that a cop under his command has sparked protests in which Rev. Al Sharpton played a leading role."
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Five Children
Murdered After They Were Deported Back to Honduras
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "Between five and ten migrant children have been killed since February after the United States deported them back to Honduras, a morgue director told the Los Angeles Times."
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Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "Between five and ten migrant children have been killed since February after the United States deported them back to Honduras, a morgue director told the Los Angeles Times."
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Protests in
Los Angeles Intensify Over Police Shooting of Ezell Ford
Dana Feldman, Reuters
Feldman writes: "About 500 people protested outside Los Angeles police headquarters on Sunday over the shooting death of an unarmed black man in California as disturbances continued in Missouri over the police killing of a black teenager there last week."
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Dana Feldman, Reuters
Feldman writes: "About 500 people protested outside Los Angeles police headquarters on Sunday over the shooting death of an unarmed black man in California as disturbances continued in Missouri over the police killing of a black teenager there last week."
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Personal
Essay: When the Sea Comes to Gaza
Sousan Hammad, Al Jazeera America
Hammad writes: "As the latest siege and shelling of the Gaza Strip goes on, I've come back to my relationship with Gaza - not only for the indignation I feel over the catastrophe that is taking place but also because of the effect his departure had on me."
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Sousan Hammad, Al Jazeera America
Hammad writes: "As the latest siege and shelling of the Gaza Strip goes on, I've come back to my relationship with Gaza - not only for the indignation I feel over the catastrophe that is taking place but also because of the effect his departure had on me."
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Duke Energy Spills 8,000 Gallons of Diesel Into Ohio River
Maxim Alter and Jesse Folk, WCPO Cincinnati
Excerpt: "Environmental Protection Agency officials say they believe local drinking water is safe despite thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilling into the Ohio River late Monday."
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Maxim Alter and Jesse Folk, WCPO Cincinnati
Excerpt: "Environmental Protection Agency officials say they believe local drinking water is safe despite thousands of gallons of diesel fuel spilling into the Ohio River late Monday."
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Poachers
Killed More Than 100,000 Elephants in Three Years
Laura Geggel, Yahoo! News
Geggel writes: "The insatiable demand for ivory is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants. Poachers are hunting the animal faster than it can reproduce, with deaths affecting more than half of elephant families in the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, a new study finds."
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Laura Geggel, Yahoo! News
Geggel writes: "The insatiable demand for ivory is causing a dramatic decline in the number of African elephants. Poachers are hunting the animal faster than it can reproduce, with deaths affecting more than half of elephant families in the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, a new study finds."
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