Huffington Post
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How the Supreme Court Authorized Racial Profiling
Originally published at Huffington Post. After the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s dismantled explicitly racist laws, racism became colorblind to survive. Today, although no law explicitly allows for racial profiling by law enforcement, it still happens at an institutional level. What’s often left out of the discussion about why racial profiling happens…
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CIA’s Human Rights Violations Honored By Fordham University
Students and faculty at Fordham University gather in orange jumpsuits to petition President McShane to revoke CIA Director John Brennan’s honorary degree. (Photo: Louie Dean Valencia-García) Originally published at Huffington Post. In May just before students and faculty left school for the summer – we are back now – Fordham University President Joseph M. McShane,…
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Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers: Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Double Standard for Leaks
Originally published at Huffington Post. “There are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy,” then-CIA director David Petraeus told his employees in 2012 of the successful conviction of CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, the…
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