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Pope Francis to World Leaders at U.N. Climate Summit: “We Are at the Limits of Suicide”; “The Fossil Fuel Era Must Draw to a Close”: A Message from the Marshall Islands to the World; “The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn”: Former Bolivian Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón; Philippines’ Former Climate Negotiator Yeb Saño’s 900 … Continued
Global Protests Demand Climate Justice as World Leaders Open Pivotal Paris Summit; Thousands Defy Paris State of Emergency, Protest Ban to Sound the Alarm on Global Climate Crisis; “I Am Paris, I am Bamako, We Are Humanity”: Memorial at Bataclan Theatre Honors Attack Victims; Indigenous Climate Activists: Paris “Police State” is the Reality Frontline Communities … Continued
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality: “The Violence is Not New, It’s the Cameras That are New”; “Between the World and Me”: Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation on Being Black in America.
Chicago Police Officer Charged With Murder After Video Shows Him Shooting Laquan McDonald 16 Times; Eyewitness Recalls Shooting by Alleged White Supremacists at Minneapolis Black Lives Matter Protest; US Rep. Keith Ellison Demands Transparent, Aggressive Investigation of Police Killing of Jamar Clark; First Muslim Member of U.S. Congress: Restrictions on Syrian Refugees Driven by Fear, Xenophobia. … Continued
Journalist on Shooting of Laquan McDonald By Chicago Police Officer: “It Was An Horrific Execution”; Chicago Activist: City’s Call for Peace over Laquan McDonald Video Does Not Extend to Police Dept.; “Nativist Hysteria” Against Syrian Refugees Echoes U.S. Rejection of Jewish Refugees in 1930s.
Brussels Is Under High Security Alert, But Will Europe Address Muslims in “Marginalized Ghettos”? A Paris Every Day: As 100 Americans Die from Guns Daily, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Calls for Reform; Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Elected After Popular Uprising, Defends Local Control of Schools; “A Mayor That’s Radical”: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Reflects on His Poet Father … Continued
Bamako Hostage Crisis: How U.S.-Backed Intervention in Libya Spread Chaos to Nearby Mali; Exclusive: Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror; “Numbing & Horrible”: Former Drone Operator Brandon Bryant on His Haunting First Kill; Exclusive: 2 Air Force Vets Speak Out for First Time on Why They Want the … Continued
Glenn Greenwald: “Shameless” U.S. Officials Exploit Paris Attacks to Defend Spying & Attack Snowden; Glenn Greenwald on “Submissive” Media’s Drumbeat for War and “Despicable” Anti-Muslim Scapegoating.
News headlines. Archival sound: Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 London the “lost” tape.
There is No Military Solution: Could ISIL Be Strengthened by U.S., French, Russian Bombing? Abdel Bari Atwan: Inside How the U.S. & Saudi Arabia Aided Growth of the Islamic State; Lydia Wilson: What I Discovered from Interviewing Imprisoned Islamic State Fighters; We are Angry over Death of My Cousin in Paris, As Well As the … Continued
