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Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Now Six Times The National Average

Incarceration Rate For African-Americans Now Six Times The National Average February 21, 2013 " Information Clearing House " -   The incarceration rate for American-Americans is so high that young black men without a high school diploma are more likely to go to jail than to find a job, thereby causing the breakup of families and instilling further poverty upon them. “Prison has become the new poverty trap,”  Bruce Western, a Harvard sociologist, told the New York Times.  “It has become a routine event for poor African-American men and their families, creating an enduring disadvantage at the very bottom of American society.”

Carnage: 53 Killed In Syria Courtesy of US Allies

Carnage: 53 Killed In Syria Courtesy of US Allies February 21, 2013 " Information Clearing House " -  While the US and its Western partners pretend to be engaged in a global war against terrorism, their terrorist  allies  in Syria have  set off another car bomb , tellingly very close to the ruling Baath party offices and the Russian embassy. Initial reports are that more than 50 have been killed by the terrorists, including many children attending a nearby school.