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• From the Birmingham Campaign to MLK Day

  By Ecantados on January 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Martin Luther King was the point man for a movement that resonated across the US at a time in US history when a whole sector of people were still abused by laws/people in US States. As such a Federal recognition… Read More ›

• Kingdoms of West Africa

  By Ecantados on January 17, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Historical art review..:)  courtesy of YouTube

• Guantánamo Diary exposes brutality of US rendition and torture

  By enormousgherkin on January 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The groundbreaking memoir of a current Guantánamo inmate that lays bare the harrowing details of the US rendition and torture programme from the perspective of one of its victims is to be published next week after a six-year battle for… Read More ›

• Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty

  By jward199 on January 16, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  By Lyndsey Layton For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of public school students across the country are considered “low-income”, according to a new study by the Southern Education Foundation. While poor children are spread across… Read More ›

• Elizabeth Warren: I’m not running for president

  By jward199 on January 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Read the transcript of a “conversation between the Massachusetts senator and Fortune Contributor and former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, in which a more business-friendly side of Warren emerges.” Fortune: Congress just effectively repealed a Dodd-Frank prohibition on big banks using FDIC-insured… Read More ›

• Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s ‘Great Wall’ to keep out Isil

  By Ecantados on January 15, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent When a raiding party from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked a Saudi border post last week, it was no mere hit on a desert outpost. The jihadists were launching an assault… Read More ›

• Why did the world ignore Boko Haram’s Baga attacks?

  By konigludwig on January 15, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  As media coverage focused on the Paris terror attacks last week, more than 2000 Nigerians were reported to have been killed by Islamist militants. What makes one massacre more newsworthy than another? France spent the weekend coming to terms with… Read More ›

• Allegiance to ISIL splits Russian fighters

  By Ecantados on January 14, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  In the past two months three ‘Caucasus Emirate’ warlords appeared in videos declaring fealty to ISIL. Moscow, Russia – In a lengthy diatribe posted on YouTube in late December, a full-bearded man in a loose white robe recites Quranic quotes… Read More ›

• Meet Illinois’s New Governor Bruce Raunor

  By Ecantados on January 13, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Bruce Vincent Rauner (born February 18, 1957) is an American businessman, politician, and currently the 42nd Governor of Illinois.[1] Prior to his election, he was the Chairman of R8 Capital Partners and the former Chairman of the private equity firm… Read More ›

• ‘Anonymous’ Member Calls For Revenge On Terrorists For Charlie Hebdo Massacre

  By Ecantados on January 10, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

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