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The Tragic Case of SARAH REED: A Story of Police Brutality & Failing Systems…

More than 200 people gathered outside Holloway Prison for a candle-lit vigil on Tuesday to honour Sarah Reed – a 32-year-old victim of police violence who was found dead in her cell a month ago. Sarah Reed was a woman who was subjected to some shocking police brutality and whose assault was caught on camera […]

School of the Americas Graduates Responsible for 1989 Jesuit Massacre Face Extradition to Spain

North Carolina/El Salvador – The 1989 massacre of 16-year-old Celina Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and six Jesuit priests at the University of Central America (UCA) in El Salvador, that galvanized opposition to the U.S. relationship with Central American death squads and that sparked the movement to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, is making headlines again.

Social Control Emerging as ISIS Motive for Erasing Cultural Heritage in Syria

DAMASCUS — Among these patriots are regular citizens as well as the stellar nationalist employees of Syria’s Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) who this observer has interviewed extensively over the past nearly three years as they elucidate why ISIS destroys and loots our irreplaceable antiquities. This observer’s research has been augmented by other eyewitnesses, some who are themselves former jihadists or their victims, to ISIS looting and its distribution of franchises to sell off our shared cultural heritage give witness.