Archives for ديسمبر 2014

Jews And Arabs Unite In Solidarity Against Police Brutality

“Together we celebrate the miracle of resistance that we will not let die!”

بواسطة John Vibes

Brooklyn, New York – This year, when the first night of Hanukah came to Brooklyn, Jewish, Arab, and Muslim demonstrators commemorated the holiday with an evening of protest against police brutality. Three New York activist groups — Jews For Racial and Economic Justice, the Arab American Association of New York, and Bend the Arc — were taking

New Study Finds Teen Marijuana Use Declines As States Legalize

Conducted by the University of Michigan and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, the study showed that teen alcohol and drug use was down across the board in 2014.

بواسطة Carey Wedler

Partygoers listen to live music and smoke pot on the second of two days at the annual 4/20 marijuana festival in Denver, Sunday April 20, 2014.  (AP/Brennan Linsley) (TheAntiMedia) For decades, drug warriors have argued that if marijuana is legalized, it will lead to a sharp spike in adolescent use and addiction. As Republican Congressman

Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front Of Their Mothers

Now, over a decade later the evidence of these events are beginning to surface, but the Department of Defense is still doing their best to keep it under the radar.

بواسطة John Vibes
Iraqi soldiers stand guard at Abu Ghraib after taking over for U.S. soldiers, on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. Khalid Mohammed | AP

According to a number of global mainstream media sources, the Pentagon is covering up a disturbing video that was never made public with the rest of the recent torture report. According to various well respected journalists, including Seymour Hersh, the appalling video was recorded at Abu Ghraib, the notorious US torture dungeon in Iraq that

The Day CIA Backed Anti-Castro Forces Tried To Bomb The U.N.

The anti-Castro forces in the United States, backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had mounted an insidious campaign to stop Che Guevera from speaking.

بواسطة Thalif Deen
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Minister of Industries of Cuba, addresses the General Assembly on Dec. 11, 1964. UN Photo/TC UNITED NATIONS, - When the politically-charismatic Ernesto Che Guevera, once second-in-command to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, was at the United Nations to address the General Assembly sessions back in 1964, the U.N. headquarters

Just how dangerous it is for children to go to school in Pakistan?

Pakistan saw more than 800 attacks on schools between 2009 and 2012.

بواسطة Simran Khosla
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Pakistan is now in mourning, after a gruesome attack on a military-run Peshawar school on Tuesday in which members of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) killed at least 145 people, including 132 children. "My body was shivering. I saw death so close and I will never forget the black boots approaching me — I felt as though it was death that was

Wealth Gap Between Rich And Poor Americans Highest On Record

New analysis from Pew Research Center finds that economic gains of the wealthiest continue to soar as the middle-class and low-income families face chronic stagnation.

بواسطة Sarah Lazare

People line up at the food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) The gulf between rich and poor people in America has hit a new record. An analysis released Wednesday by Pew Research Center finds that the wealth gap between the top 21 percent