• Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

    Why all white Americans should see the film “Whose Streets?” about the events in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014

    by  • August 14, 2017 • race • 0 Comments

    I saw the documentary “Whose Streets?” last night. It’s about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, in the weeks and months after Michael Brown, an unarmed college-bound teenager who was black, was shot by a police officer, Darren Wilson, who was white, in August 2014. I think every American should see this movie, particularly every...

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    North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has lost his first sparring match with Washington, and Beijing

    by  • July 2, 2013 • Uncategorized • 5 Comments

    North Korea is softening its hard line, ever so slightly, in recent days and weeks and that in large measure is thanks to China’s slapping down, firmly, its annoying neighbor and Pyongyang’s greenhorn dictator, Kim Jong Un. At talks in Brunei on Tuesday with other Asian foreign ministers, Secretary of State John Kerry publicly...

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