No Indictment for NYC Police Officer in the Death of Eric Garner

One warm July afternoon, 43-year-old Eric Garner was standing outside a beauty supply store in Staten Island, New York. Two plainclothes police officers soon approached Garner and began talking to him. According to the Garner’s friend Ramsey Orta, who recorded and witnessed the entire dilemma, Garner had just broken up a fight minutes prior to the officers […]

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Crisis in Ukraine

Spontaneous protests erupted in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev the night of November 21st after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych decided to reject a free trade deal with the European Union that would have brought the Ukraine one step closer to European integration. The rejection of the free trade deal coupled with crippling unemployment and government corruption that […]

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