On Poisoned Ground: East Chicago’s legacy of lead pollution

"East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned."

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Thinks Yemeni Child Deaths Are Worth It

"Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail 'the killing and maiming of children' on a mass scale, Blitzer's words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners' war crimes abroad."

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More Cops in Schools Is the Wrong Answer to Mass Shootings

"The ubiquitous presence of law enforcement in public schools has led to serious infringements of students' Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights, and it has increased the likelihood that minor disputes between students will escalate into criminal justice issues."

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