"A sweeping gagging order issued in Australia to block reporting of any bribery allegations involving several international political leaders in the region has been exposed by WikiLeaks." Guardian
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I'm gonna join the chorus of people expressing shock and disappointment at this. Requiring people to submit to contraception... does nothing strike them as wrong about this? IOL
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Interesting piece about identifying as black American as opposed to African American.
"... the rise of black nationalism in the ’60s and ‘70s coincided with a growing emphasis, among white Americans, on the idea of America as a “nation of immigrants.” He argues the two phenomena are not unrelated:
This blunted the charges of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and eased the conscience of a nation that had just barely begun to reckon with the harshest contours of its history forged in white supremacism.
Americans who traced their ancestries to the Great Wave of immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century couldn’t be blamed for the horrors of slavery or Reconstruction, or so the thinking went." Slate
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Holy hell. Greek farmers who admit to shooting and seriously injuring Bangladeshi migrant workers who were demanding back pay are... acquitted. Guardian
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I'm gonna join the chorus of people expressing shock and disappointment at this. Requiring people to submit to contraception... does nothing strike them as wrong about this? IOL
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Interesting piece about identifying as black American as opposed to African American.
"... the rise of black nationalism in the ’60s and ‘70s coincided with a growing emphasis, among white Americans, on the idea of America as a “nation of immigrants.” He argues the two phenomena are not unrelated:
This blunted the charges of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and eased the conscience of a nation that had just barely begun to reckon with the harshest contours of its history forged in white supremacism.
Americans who traced their ancestries to the Great Wave of immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century couldn’t be blamed for the horrors of slavery or Reconstruction, or so the thinking went." Slate
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Holy hell. Greek farmers who admit to shooting and seriously injuring Bangladeshi migrant workers who were demanding back pay are... acquitted. Guardian
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