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UN Human Rights Rep: ‘Racism Casts ‘Dark Shadow’ Over United States

The official raised alarm over police brutality and impunity, mass incarceration, and racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.

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Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (Photo/Jeff Roberson,AP)

The United States is struggling to adequately tackle structural racism and criminal justice issues, which is impacting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, a United Nations human rights expert warned. “People have good reason to be angry and frustrated at the moment,” said Maina Kiai, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of

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Panama Papers: Offshore Firm Helped Billionaires Plunder Africa

The plunder of Africa is only the tip of the iceberg, said the investigation: in total, more than 1,400 companies involved in resource extraction were listed in the Mossack Fonseca files.

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A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City, Monday, April 4, 2016. Panama's president says his government will cooperate "vigorously" with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world's rich and famous. An international coalition of media outlets Sunday published investigations it said stemmed from the leak of 115 million records kept by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca on behalf of clients. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Mossack Fonseca, the offshore law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak, helped politicians, their families and businessmen rob Africa of billions of dollars, according to a new investigation. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which published the leak along with dozens of international media, found that 44 of 54

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NYPD Brags About Tax-Payer Funded Shopping Spree

«We will not be the police department that brings a knife to the gunfight,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio in a press conference.

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New York Police Department

The New York City Police Department has acquired US$7 million in military-style protective equipment for patrol officers in response to recent shooting attacks on police in Baton Rouge and Dallas, officials said Monday. "You name it, we're buying it," Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference. "There's not a police department in

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Police Applications Soar By 344% Following Dallas Shootings

The Dallas police chief has urged Black Lives Matter protesters to «serve the community» rather than rally against deadly police violence.

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In this Monday, July 18, 2016, photograph taken with a fisheye lens, Denver Police Department officers head out in their patrol car after role call for the swing shift in District 6 in downtown Denver. After more than two decades of making officers patrol on their own, the city of Denver has revived two-officer patrols following the killings of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Since a sniper fatally shot five Dallas police officers earlier this month, applications to join the city’s police department have increased by 344 percent, the news site Fusion reported. The department received a record number of 467 applications for the thirteen-day period between July 8 – a day after the shooting – and July 20. They received

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Former Saudi General Visits Israel, Calls Palestinians ‘Terrorists’

While the Saudis and Israelis appear to be enemies, the two in fact agree on many regional issues and are the two biggest U.S. allies in the Middle East.

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Dore Gold and Anwar Eshki shake hands at a CFR event, as Elliott Abrams looks on.

A former senior Saudi military general traveled to Israel and met with government officials this week in Saudi Arabia’s latest move to forge relations and ties with Israel despite appearing to be one of its main public critics and branding itself as the defender of Palestine and its people. Retired General Anwar Eshki, who has held several

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Casa Blanca Reautorizará Equipos Militares Para Policía

La desmilitarización de la policía, que a menudo actúa como una fuerza de ocupación en las comunidades, es una demanda clave de los activistas de Black Lives Matter.

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Police Shooting Missouri

The Obama White House is set to authorize police agencies to once again acquire military equipment, a move that is sure to be met with heavy criticism from activists seeking greater accountability from police in light of regular police killings of Black men. Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. government will revisit a 2015 ban on police

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Over One Third Of Nice Attack Victims Were Muslim

Muslims suffer the worst consequences of terrorism, undermining the usual racist narrative portraying Islam as a violent religion targeting Western values and populations.

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A young woman lights a candle outside the French Embassy in Berlin.

Out of the 84 victims who died in the Nice attacks on France's Bastille Day, at least 30 were Muslims, figures based on the types of funerals required by relatives released by local Nice authorities revealed Tuesday. The Muslim victims came from or had roots in many different countries including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, according to Otmane

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