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Are We The Baddies?
As uncomfortable as it may be to find flaws in your home country, wherever that may be, it's an important part of being an informed citizen. While it's good to call the US out on individual failures, it's becoming increasingly important to help people understand that the US as a whole is the problem. In this episode, we'll take a brief stroll through the bloody history of the US empire and answer that age old question...are we the baddies?
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What Happens When Evil Wins?
Over the last five months, we've seen an unprecedented escalation in violence in Gaza. Most people I know feel like they're going crazy. We're all seeing the same footage, but no matter how angry we all get and how much we try to change public opinion, nothing seems to come of it. So...what can we do? Has evil won?
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The Next Genocide
Interesting opinion piece looking at modern-day potential that mirrors Hitler's denial of science and exploitation of ecological panic to lay the groundwork for genocide. Many of the comments are nearly as good as the original piece.
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From poetry-lover to genocide suspect, Karadzic faces verdict
Radovan Karadzic saw himself as locked in a David and Goliath struggle to save the Serbs even as their forces were reducing the besieged city of Sarajevo to rubble. By Daria Sito-Sucic.
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Radovan Karadzic jailed for Bosnia war Srebrenica genocide
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been convicted of genocide and war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, and sentenced to 40 years in jail. UN judges in The Hague found him guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Karadzic, 70, is the most senior political figure to face judgement over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. His case is being seen as one of the most important war crimes trials since World War Two.
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Ethiopia: Armed men 'kill 140' near South Sudan border
Ethiopia says armed men have killed 140 people near its border with South Sudan and abducted at least 39 children. Ethiopia's Communications Minister Getachew Reda said the attackers were members of South Sudan's Murle tribe. He said security forces were chasing the attackers and had killed 60 so far. Ethiopia is hosting thousands of South Sudanese refugees who fled the 2013 clashes that began when President Salva...
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Hey, Look, the Abyss!
By Sherman Alexie. (Apr. 15)
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South Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants'
The 14-year-old boy in the black school jacket stared at his sneakers, his heart pounding, as the policeman accused him of stealing a piece of bread. Even now, more than 30 years later, Choi Seung-woo weeps when he describes all that happened next. The policeman yanked down the boy's pants and sparked a cigarette lighter near Choi's genitals until he confessed to a crime he didn't commit. Then two men with clubs came and dragged...
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Pope to Visit Genocide Memorial During June Trip to Armenia
Pope Francis' trip to Armenia in June will include a visit to the genocide memorial complex, a monastery stop in the city of Gyumeri and a meeting with the president. The Vatican released details of the June 24-25 trip on Friday. The three-day visit comes a year after the pope sparked a diplomatic incident with Turkey when he termed the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians a genocide. His new plan to visit the genocide memorial on his second day is also likely ...
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Eleven German MPs under police protection in 'genocide' row
Eleven German MPs of Turkish origin have been put under police protection. They received death threats after supporting a move to describe the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. Germany's foreign ministry has warned MPs of Turkish origin against travelling to Turkey, saying their security there could not be guaranteed. The German parliament's move outraged the Turkish government, which does not recognise the killings as genocide.
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Pope Francis has described the Armenian massacre as a 'genocide'
Pope Francis denounced what he called the ideologically twisted and planned "genocide" of Armenians by Ottoman-era Turks a century ago as he arrived in Armenia on Friday for a deeply symbolic visit to mark the centenary of the massacre and pay homage to the country's steadfast Christian faith. In the most carefully watched speech of his three-day trip, Francis ad-libbed the politically charged word "genocide" to his prepared text that had conspicuously left it out, listing the Armenian genocide alongside the Holocaust and Stalinism.
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Half-Truth and Reconciliation: After the Rwandan Genocide
On the Embattled State of Journalism in Kagame’s Rwanda. By Megha Majumdar. (Apr. 28, 2016)
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French MPs vote to criminalise denial of Armenian genocide
French members of parliament voted unanimously Friday to criminalise the denial of all crimes against humanity, including failure to admit that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces was a "genocide". The amendment, passed on the first reading, sets out penalties of up to a year in prison and a 45,000-euro ($50,000) fine for those who fall foul of the new law, which is expected to raise hackles in Turkey. Last month, the German parliament voted to recognise the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as a "genocide", damaging ties between Berlin and Ankara.
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Sydney H. Schanberg Is Dead at 82; Former Times Correspondent Chronicled Terror of 1970s Cambodia
Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer for covering the fall of the Lon Nol regime to the Khmer Rouge and inspired the film “The Killing Fields,” a recounting of his colleague’s survival during the genocide of millions. By Robert D. McFfadden. (July 9, 2016)
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Born Free
M.I.A
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Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States
The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures. By Rosalyn Eves.
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Naming America’s Own Genocide
In a commanding new book, Benjamin Madley calls California’s 19th-century elected officials “the primary architects of annihilation” against Native Americans in the state. Reading it is like watching bodies being piled on a pyre. By Richard White.
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Germany says Armenia genocide resolution ‘non-binding’ after reports Berlin keen to ‘satisfy’ Turkey
Germany’s foreign minister has said the Bundestag resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide is “non-binding,” following media reports the German cabinet would disavow the resolution so as to continue using Turkey’s Incirlik airbase. "The German parliament naturally has the right and the freedom to pass any resolution it likes, but the Bundestag itself has said that not every resolution is legally binding," Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted by Reuters as saying on Friday.
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34 years ago today - The Sabra and Shatila Massacre Israel forces murder 3500 Palestinians and Lebanese including women and children
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the slaughter of between 762 and 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese Shia Muslim civilians, by a Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia assisted by the Israel Defense Forces, in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. The massacre was presented as retaliation for the assassination of newly elected Lebanese president Bachir Gemayel, the leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party. It was wrongly assumed that Palestinian militants had carried out the assassination.
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After South Africa's Withdrawal, How does the ICC Stay Relevant?
The Rainbow Nation's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court highlighted its increasingly shaky support from governments across the continent, but their reasons are more complex than headline-grabbing claims the court is racist.
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