Society's Child
As America remains embroiled in overseas conflict, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans.
For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are more available today than ever before.
Filmed in more than 20 states by critically acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, Storyville: The House I Live In captures a definitive and heart-wrenching portrait of individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America's longest war, revealing its profound human rights implications.
In this RSA Animate, celebrated academic David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order. Can we find a more responsible, just, and humane economic system?
This RSA Animate was taken from a lecture given as part of the RSA's free public lecture programme. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to driving social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information, visit http://www.thersa.org
This RSA Animate was taken from a lecture given as part of the RSA's free public lecture programme. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to driving social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. For more information, visit http://www.thersa.org
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A bottlenose dolphin found shot dead in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on November 9, 2012.
A bottlenose dolphin found shot dead in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on November 9, 2012.
When Louisiana Fisheries and Wildlife personnel discovered a dead bottlenose dolphin near Elmer's Island late last year, they figured it was another victim of the 2010 BP oil spill.
So they were shocked when an onsite necropsy showed no signs of oil-related injury, or of bacterial infection, biotoxins, or disease - the most common causes of death in dolphins.
Instead, the Louisiana officials found a tiny piercing on the right side of the dolphin's blowhole. That hole would later reveal the cause of death: a small bullet lodged in the animal's lung.
The killing turned out to be another in a growing string of apparent attacks on dolphins and other marine mammals reported along the Gulf Coast in recent months.
According to a December report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2012 three dolphins with gunshot wounds were found "stranded" (or washed ashore) along the Gulf Coast - the highest number since 2004.
The children's father was said to have leapt from the building to raise the alarm
The blaze in Saint-Quentin, about 130km (80 miles) north-east of Paris, was probably accidental, reports say.
The children's father was present but escaped with serious burns, local officials said.
Three people were also killed and 13 hurt in a fire in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers on Saturday. Officials suspect the fire was "of criminal origin" and an investigation has begun.
Officials said that the blaze in Saint-Quentin began at around 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT).
The father had been looking after the children for the first time since splitting up with his wife three months earlier, a neighbour told French media.
He tried to reach his children but was beaten back by the flames and jumped from the first floor of the building to raise the alarm, reports say.
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Jean Soriano was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after he was treated and released at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Jean Soriano was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after he was treated and released at University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
The dead were among seven family members who were in the van, authorities said. The other two - the 40-year-old female driver and a 15-year-old boy - were hospitalized in critical condition.
Jean Soriano of California was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after he was treated and released at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Loy Hixson said.
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South Africa is struggling to stem the rampant poaching of rhinos
South Africa is struggling to stem the rampant poaching of rhinos
The South African military says five air force members have died in the crash of a helicopter that was patrolling as part of an anti-rhino poaching operation.
The military said in a statement that the crash happened on Saturday evening in South Africa's Kruger National Park. It says the crew was among those killed.
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FBI and police worked in the middle of Blarney Stone Way on Saturday night near Forney, where Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and wife Cynthia McLelland were found dead in their home.
FBI and police worked in the middle of Blarney Stone Way on Saturday night near Forney, where Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and wife Cynthia McLelland were found dead in their home.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh and other officials confirmed that Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia Woodward McLelland, had been shot at their home near Forney.
Their deaths followed the Jan. 31 slaying of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse.
"It is a shock," Aulbaugh said late Saturday. "It was a shock with Mark Hasse, and now you can just imagine the double shock. ... Until we know what happened, I really can't confirm that it's related, but you always have to assume until it's proven otherwise."
He said that the Texas Rangers were helping with the investigation at the McLellands' home in an unincorporated part of the county but that the sheriff's department will be leading the investigation.
"Because we have to treat it as related [to the Hasse investigation], we'll be working side by side again," Aulbaugh said.
A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity described the scene at the McLellands' home as an awful scene.
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Roman Thomas III
Roman Thomas III
The pimp, who has a lengthy rap sheet, allegedly forced the girl to a Liberty City flea market tattoo shop to get the ink done after she threatened to leave him, CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald reports.
The vicious twist to a human trafficking case surfaced this month when Miami police arrested Roman Thomas III, 26, who was already on probation after serving four years in state prison for having sex with a minor.
Thomas was wearing a state corrections GPS monitor when Miami police arrested him on March 18.
The girl, dubbed "Sparkle," was pimped through the classified advertising website Backpage.com, police say. Thomas and a woman plied the girl with liquor, marijuana and the drug Molly as she had sex with men at the Miami Shores Motel.
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A classmate saw one of the suspected students with a knife on a school bus.
A classmate saw one of the suspected students with a knife on a school bus.
A northeast Washington judge has found two boys, ages 10 and 11, competent to stand trial in juvenile court on a murder conspiracy charge.
Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen says the fifth-graders had a handwritten plan listing seven steps leading up to the planned killing of a female classmate. That list was submitted as evidence at their mental capacity hearing Friday.
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Former Atlanta Superintendent Beverly Hall was among 35 people indicted today in APS cheating scandal.
Former Atlanta Superintendent Beverly Hall was among 35 people indicted today in APS cheating scandal.
Hall and 34 others were indicted as a result of their alleged roles in the 2009 cheating scandal that toppled her regime, sullied the district's reputation and raised doubts about testing integrity nationwide.
In the indictments, there was only one count of racketeering, which carries up to 20 years in prison. But the alleged acts of false statements and writings, influencing a witness, theft by taking were the underlying crimes that supported the racketeering charge.
Out of 65 counts, one was racketeering, two were influencing a witness, five were theft by taking and the remaining counts concerned the crime of making false statements or writings.
The cheating discovered by the AJC in Atlanta has since been uncovered in many other school districts around the country.
