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India’s Armed Crackdown On Student Protesters

The state of West Bengal, India, which conjures up images of art, music, quietude, literary greats like Rabindranath Tagore, and the historic site of early Indian nationalism, is widely regarded as a peaceful place by many Indi...

by Shambhavi Saxena

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India: Heart of Darkness

Alas! We have lost our heart – not to love; but to misogyny, bigotry, and every other form of degraded thinking that an abjectly insecure patriarchal system drills into us day in day out. It is, after all, this very societal ...

by Preetam Sengupta

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How Gangs Have Become A Trojan Horse In El Salvador’s Security Forces

El Salvador seems to be replicating that mythical ploy of war known as the Trojan Horse. In Homer’s poem “The Odyssey”, he tells the story of how the Greek Achilles fakes the retreat of his army and leaves a wooden ho...

by Connectas .org

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Putting an End to Racial Stereotypes Amid a Broken U.S. Criminal Justice System

I have witnessed, on numerous occasions, New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in plainclothes stopping and frisking African-American and Latino youth on the street corners and subway stations of East Harlem, where I have ...

by Robert Valencia

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India’s Armed Crackdown On Student Protesters

India: Heart of Darkness

How Gangs Have Become A Trojan Horse In El Salvador’s Security Forces

Putting an End to Racial Stereotypes Amid a Broken U.S. Criminal Justice System

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