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Copspeak: When Black Children Suddenly Become ‘Juveniles’

As FAIR has noted many times before (7/10/16, 1/30/18), one of the primary goals of “Copspeak”—broadly defined as the media internalizing police verbiage to sound Cool and Official—is to dehumanize those officers have detained, harassed or killed.

March 20, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

Brazil's Former President Lula on U.S. Intervention in Latin America & 15th Anniv. of Iraq Invasion

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We continue our conversation with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The former union leader co-founded Brazil’s Workers’ Party and served as president from 2003 to 2010. During that time,

March 19, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Kochs and ALEC Behind Criminalization of Dissent Bills in Five States

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Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma,Wyoming, Minnesota and Louisiana have introduced or passed legislation to criminalize environmental dissent. There is evidence that bill mill organizations such as ALEC and the bipartisan group Council of State Governments

March 18, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Justice

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Petroleum Executives Visit Trump, Increasing Offshore Oil Drilling

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The American Petroleum Industry (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) held meetings at the Trump Hotel in DC. At the same time, these associations are also lobbying the Trump administration

March 19, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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New Reports Reveal How Pro-Trump Firm Cambridge Analytica 'Exploited' Facebook to Harvest Data of 50 Million Users

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"This story is a devastating tale of how personal data and massive, unaccountable technology platforms combined with malevolent political interests to subvert the public sphere. Facebook owes us the truth."

March 17, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba

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As special counsel Robert Mueller continues his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, we take a look back at Washington’s record of meddling in elections across the globe. By one

March 12, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Toxic Coal Ash Being Dumped in Puerto Rico, Which Already Suffers Worst Drinking Water in the Nation

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Even before Hurricane Maria struck the island nearly six months ago, the majority of Puerto Rico’s residents lived with water that violated health standards set by the U.S. law. Since the

March 9, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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"War, Journalism and Whistleblowers": Thomas Drake, Katharine Gun, Matthew Hoh, Jesselyn Radack

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This press conference took place in London on the day before the 15th anniversary of the Observer's publication of the March 2, 2003 story "US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq

March 11, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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West Virginia Strike Highlights Corporate Media’s Atrophied Labor Coverage

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MSNBC coverage of the West Virginia school workers strike: One of the last to the story, the cable channel had less coverage than any other major network except Fox News

March 10, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

Media Erase US Role in Syria’s Misery, Call for US to Inflict More Misery

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In the Guardian (2/10/18), Simon Tisdall described the US and its Western partners as “hovering passively on the sidelines in Syria,” and “restricting themselves to

March 8, 2018
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
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