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Philonise Floyd makes impassioned plea to ensure brother’s death ‘isn’t in vain’ and urges US lawmakers to ‘do the right thing’ George Floyd killing – latest US updates See all our George Floyd coverage Play Video 4:51 ‘Stop the pain’: Philonise Floyd testifies at House hearing on police brutality – video Hours after George Floyd […] More
Ex-DoJ employees call for investigation by inspector general Protesters were cleared to make way for Trump photo op Police used teargas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from outside the White House. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AFP/Getty Images Hundreds of former justice department officials have called for an internal review of attorney general William Barr’s handling […] More
As the world continues to grapple with the implications of the COVID-19 crisis, including mass infection and death, a global economic downturn and the stigmatization of minority communities, the rush to reopen and “get back to work” weighs hard on world leaders. Along with vaccine development, contact tracing has been touted as a necessary tool […] More
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic and antiracist protests, US President Donald Trump, whom scholars and journalists alike are finally coming around to openly discuss as fascist, declared that the United States “will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” Trump blamed the looting and destruction of property during the protests on a […] More
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is grappling with COVID-19, an unresolved war in Yemen and collapsed oil prices. At the same time, recurrent purges of opponents of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) are harming the country’s foreign investment climate. Within this context, the ambitious Vision 2030 initiative to transform Saudi economy and society is […] More
‘I was leaving a shop and security stopped me. I was four’: young protesters on why they are marching against racism Natasha, 21, creative writing and drama student and Aima, 18, student and co-organiser of LDNBLM Composite: Anselm Ebulue/Anselm Ebulue / The Guardian The UK’s Black Lives Matter protests have been spearheaded by a new […] More
P oor Ivanka Trump. The president’s daughter has spent the past few years toiling away in a mysterious governmental role that nobody asked (or elected) her to take on – and yet she is criminally underappreciated by the underlings she serves. On Friday, the heiress angrily tweeted that she was the victim of “cancel culture”, after […] More
There seemed to be a lot more bright stars in the sky in recent weeks, even over Washington, DC. Then suddenly, as national “leaders” slept wrapped in a bubble of delusion while disease was taking its ghastly toll, a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, pleaded for another breath to the unyielding knee of a police […] More
