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A Bittersweet Victory for Survivors of Bosnian Genocide

Latifah Azlan Foreign Policy in Focus
Almost 20 years after Europe’s worst genocide since World War II, a Dutch court ruled July 16th the Netherlands is liable for the murders of more than 300 Srebrenica victims, saying the Dutch peacekeeping force, the Dutchbat, "should have known" the Bosnian Muslim males it handed over to the Serbian forces of General Ratko Miadic would be massacred. However, the Dutch court cleared the Dutchbat of responsibility for the deaths of more than 7,000 others.

Friday Nite Videos -- August 15, 2014 (Woodstock 45)

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Santana -- Soul Sacrifice. Janis Joplin -- A Little Bit Harder, Ball and Chain. Joe Cocker -- With a Little Help From My Friends. Jefferson Airplane -- Somebody to Love, White Rabbit. Woodstock Documentary--Behind the Music.

Santana -- Soul Sacrifice

Santana's electric Woodstock performance came early in a career that was to continue for more than three additional decades

The Entitlement of the Very Rich

Dean Baker Truthout
If the public has a clear understanding of the agenda of the Immelts of the world, and their political allies, it will be better positioned to protect the entitlements that workers depend on have paid for.

What’s Exceptional About Ferguson, Missouri?

Zoe Carpenter The Nation
The racial disparities that define Ferguson are indeed shocking. More than two-thirds of the town’s residents are black, but almost all of the officials and police officers are white: the mayor and the police chief, five of six city council members, all but one of the members of the school board, fifty of fifty-three police officers.