“White-minded supremacy,” author and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem, informs viewers at the beginning of the video, “is not episodic; it’s structural.” Menakem goes on to say that white people feeling “horror” at events such as the killing of George Floyd, which kicked off numerous Black Lives Matter protests across the …
Read More »Opposition & human rights groups brand bloody Rio favela raid a ‘massacre’, demand probe into possible extrajudicial killings
Thursday’s raid on the Jacarezinho community in northern Rio left 25 dead, including a drug squad officer who was shot in the head. The slums, also known as favelas, are notorious for rampant crime and violence. The raid was the deadliest police operation in a Rio favela since 2005. Although police …
Read More »Pro-liberty groups file lawsuits after Connecticut ends long-standing religious vaccine exemption for kids in schools
After three years of protests and controversy, Governor Ned Lamont signed bill HB6423 – which removes a clause enshrined in law since 1959 that allowed non-immunized children to attend school, college, and daycare – on Wednesday after it was approved by the Democrat-majority Senate late on Tuesday night. Over 2,000 …
Read More »‘Move in groups, loot stores’: BLM protest over black woman’s arrest descends into violence in Belgium (VIDEOS)
The demonstrators took to the streets of the eastern Belgian city on Saturday to protest the arrest of a black woman by police earlier this week. The march remained peaceful until a group of rowdy youth joined the procession, and then spread through the city centre, wreaking havoc. “We are …
Read More »Outlawed loyalist paramilitary groups withdraw support for Good Friday peace deal over Northern Ireland Protocol
The body, which represents outlawed loyalist paramilitary groups, announced the decision to remove its support for the peace deal in a letter on Thursday, as opposition in Northern Ireland to the post-Brexit protocol measure grows. While the group wanted to be clear that opposition to the protocol should be “peaceful …
Read More »India accuses foreign ‘vested interest groups’ of smear campaign over farmer protests
Indian diplomats slammed foreign supporters of the country’s protesting farmers on Wednesday, accusing them of trying to meddle into the nation’s domestic affairs. “It is unfortunate to see vested interest groups trying to enforce their agenda on these protests, and derail them,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, accusing …
Read More »Airline groups embrace ‘digital health passports’ over quarantines as Covid shutdowns continue to cripple industry
Oneworld, Star Alliance, and SkyTeam – three of the largest global airline groups which together represent 60 percent of the world’s passenger air capacity – issued a statement praising smartphone-based health pre-clearance apps like CommonPass on Wednesday, urging governments to mothball the “blunt instrument” of quarantines and lockdowns and adopt …
Read More »France to ‘strengthen’ control on funding of Islamist groups, finance minister says after teacher killed in terrorist attack
Speaking on France 3 TV channel, Le Maire said that he will prepare “proposals to strengthen the control over financial flows” of Islamist groups. “There is a problem of financing a number of Islamist associations on which I think we can and must do better,” he said. Le Maire’s statement …
Read More »Rights groups & unions press Trudeau to halt record-breaking arms sales to Saudi Arabia
A total of 39 human-rights, arms-control, and labor organizations, among them Canadian branches of Amnesty International and Oxfam, have penned an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sounding the alarm “about the serious ethical, legal, human rights and humanitarian implications of Canada’s ongoing exports to Saudi Arabia.” Similar pleas …
Read More »Defense creates groups of Unirii in the defense enterprises and asked to report.
Patriotic detachments “of Warmii” may appear at all enterprises of the defense industry The defense Ministry intends to create in every enterprise of the military-industrial complex detachments of military-Patriotic movement “Uname”. About it writes”Kommersant” with reference to several sources, relevant to the implementation of the state defense order. About these …
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