‘Collateral Murder’: Post Script
Before he killed himself, 30-year-old Iraq veteran Danny Holmes would often sit in front of his computer screen looking at photographs of the children killed by the US army during the Iraq war.
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Before he killed himself, 30-year-old Iraq veteran Danny Holmes would often sit in front of his computer screen looking at photographs of the children killed by the US army during the Iraq war.
Since mid-July, student-led demonstrations have erupted across Thailand demanding an end to the harassment of dissidents, redrafting of the constitution, end to military control of government and a truly constitutional monarchy.
Recently the Brazilian regime invaded and destroyed a part of the camp that the Landless Movement of Brazil had been maintaining for 20 years in Mina Gerais. An interview with one of the members of the camp.
Brian, a Vietnam war veteran, discusses not only Nicaragua but the broader issues of US foreign policy and racially violent police brutality in the United States.
Today when we say “Black Lives Matter!” we are echoing the calls of countless warriors before us – starting from the uprising led by Nat Turner – and claiming that tradition as our present and future.
Capping a week of protests, thousands of protestors gathered in Washington D.C., on 28 August to protest yet another police shooting of a black man in Kenosha – the day also marked the 1963 March on Washington.
This movement has been a source of inspiration for thousands of people’s movements across the country.
By evoking Gandhi in the Supreme Court’s contempt proceedings, the lawyer has contextualised the need to ‘test’ all laws to see if they further the quest for justice instead of simply being etched in stone.
The Delhi police is manufacturing evidence to frame critics of the BJP government as responsible for the February riots in Delhi and has charge-sheeted and arrested thousands.
5 August 2020 marks the first anniversary of the violation of our Constitutional commitment to the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
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