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mattlakeman.org
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| | | | | In 1995, El Salvador had an intentional homicide rate of 139 per 100,000, the highest in the world and one of the highest rates recorded in modern history. Like all educated middle-class Americans, my core understanding of urban crime comes from The Wire, so for comparison, when the show took place, the homicide rate in... | |
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| | | | | By Clarence Lusane | - ( Tomdispatch.com ) - On February 19, 1942, two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It initiated a Department of Defense program that resulted in the rounding up and incarceration of about 122,000 individuals of Japanese descent. They were to be placed in federal "relocation centers" that would popularly become known as "internment camps." As it happened, they were neither. They were prisons set up to house and... | |
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| | | | | On May 31st, Politico headlined "Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons: It's a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city." It reported: The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia - solely near the area of Kharkiv - using U.S.-provided | |
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www.jalopnik.com
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| | | Why is the F-117 Nighthawk, America's first true "stealth" aircraft, still prowling the skies years after its retirement in 2008? | ||