Brutality

Police Brutality Tells Us More About Society Than Those Who Police It

Oren Moverman | Posted 04.03.2012

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Oren Moverman

One fall, as I was talking with the LAPD and trying to get into their heads, one white cop leaning confidently on his idled squad car took his time explaining to me that the battle for the streets of Los Angeles.

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Will There Be Justice for Murdered Egyptian Blogger?

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amnesty International

Impunity is one of the great building blocks of the state of oppression in Egypt. In a government where torture and abuse is systematic, police and security officials rarely are brought to trial for their actions.

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Jingoism Isn't Journalism: Why I Don't Trust CNN & Corporate Media to Cover Iran

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Milazzo

Old media, and specifically CNN, are learning the difficult lesson that with or without their vast resources and state of the art studios, the Iranians' stories will be told. And they'll be told to tens of millions more viewers than cable and satellite programs tend to reach.

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Will Barack Obama Embrace Nonviolence?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen C. Rose

The pragmatic test of this millennium is whether nonviolence makes more sense than the use of military power. And, if it does, whether we can evolve toward that stage.

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At the Crossroads of Politics and Art, Jenny Holzer is Waiting

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Guantanamo Detainees, Brutality, Politics, Art, Jenny Holzer, Chicago, Bosnian War, Terrorism, War, US Government, CIA Torture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Aclu, Torture, George Bush, Iraq, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

The exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art is timely indeed. Not to mention alarming. Even sickening.

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