There comes a moment in every foreign correspondent’s life when she must confront whether the story that she is telling is hers to tell. This much was apparent to me when I went to Hong Kong last September, to report on the protests that had engulfed the city. For two weeks, I dutifully donned my press vest, helmet, and …
How Police-Union Power Helped Increase Abuses By Steven Greenhouse
Critics of police unions stress that the unions have far too much power, and contend that robust protections give many police officers a sense of impunity.Photograph by David Butow / Redux Police unions have long had a singular—and divisive—place in American labor. What is different at this fraught moment, however, is that these unions, long …
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How King Leopold II Of Belgium Killed 10 Million Africans In The Congo – Read the Harrowing Details
King Leopold II of Belgium laid claim to the Congo and declared it his territory while exerting physical threats to the indigenous people of the Congo (Kongo). He declared the people and the land to be his property, and he quickly turned the country into a moneymaking venture for himself and his throne. Kongo was …
After World War II, Most ‘Ordinary Nazis’ Returned to Lives of Obscurity. The World Must Recover Their Stories Before It’s Too Late by Daniel Lee
Among the numerous tragedies of the current COVID-19 crisis is the large number of Holocaust survivors who count among the disease’s victims. In recent weeks, newspapers across the world have published moving obituaries of individual Jews who, more than three-quarters of a century ago, fled persecution, went into hiding or survived the horrors of the …
Buhari’s skewed appointments will ruin you, destroy Nigeria by Col Umar
•Col Abubakar Umar (Rtd) ABUJA ((SundiataPost) – Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), one-time Military Governor of Kaduna State, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against continuing making lopsided appointments that favour one section of the country against other sections. In an open letter he wrote to Buhari on Sunday and made available to SundiataPost, Col Umar …
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