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Rania Khalek

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Covers:  racism, mass incarceration, death penalty, criminal justice, police brutality, prison
Journalist and host of Dispatches on @BTnewsroom.

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Steinbecks: Leave Lennie alone

Steinbecks: Leave Lennie alone

Last night Texas shocked the world with the execution of 54-year-old Marvin Wilson, a mentally retarded man w…

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Police Violence, Racialized Indifference and a Hunger for Justice in Anaheim

Police Violence, Racialized Indifference and a Hunger for Justice in Anaheim

On Saturday, July 21, 24-year-old Manuel Diaz laid face down in a pool of blood, shot dead by Anaheim police …

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Innocent, but broke

Innocent, but broke

Glen Edward Chapman, or "Ed," was exonerated in 2008 after spending 15 years on death row for crimes he did n…

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Unarmed Black Woman Shot and Killed by Chicago Police Officer Less Than a Month After Trayvon Mar...

Unarmed Black Woman Shot and Killed by Chicago Police Officer Less Than a Month After Trayvon Mar...

"Her death certificate says killed by police, but I feel like my sister was murdered," says Martinez Sutton, …

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Hunger Strikers at Virginia Supermax Face Retaliation for Protest Against Torturous Conditions

Hunger Strikers at Virginia Supermax Face Retaliation for Protest Against Torturous Conditions

Dozens of inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's only supermax facility, have been on a hunger strike …

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When "stand your ground" fails

When "stand your ground" fails

John McNeil killed a white man who assaulted him on his property. But, unlike George Zimmerman, he's serving …

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Congress Just Subpoenaed Our Newsroom for Doing Journalism

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By Rania Khalek Verified
| Substack
I’ve spent this week reporting on the Trump administration’s escalating war on the left, with the the anti-communism summit, the State Department’s 100-page report branding activists and journalists as agents of Cuba, the promise of more “terrorist” designations to come. Now it’s arrived at my own newsroom. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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McCarthyism 2.0: Marco Rubio’s Cuba derangement syndrome

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By Rania Khalek Verified
| BreakThrough News
It’s NSPM-7, 10 months in. On Monday, Marco Rubio’s State Department dropped a 100-page report titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism” – a sprawling conspiracy theory arguing a tiny island nation that Washington is currently strangling under a medieval-torturous siege that’s killing infants is one of the gravest threats to American civilization.
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Iran War: ‘The US only negotiates for surrender’ | w/ Navid Zarrinnal

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By Rania Khalek Verified
| BreakThrough News
At least 50 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in ten consecutive days of US airstrikes targeting critical Iranian infrastructure, its health ministry says. Tehran has hit back, with two US soldiers killed in retaliatory strikes in Jordan and a third killed in Iraq over the weekend, bringing the total American body count to at least 17.
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