Edward Rhymes

Edward Rhymes is a Mint Press columnist and author of "When Racism Is Law & Prejudice Is Policy: Prejudicial and Discriminatory Laws, Decisions and Policies in U.S. History." Rhymes is an authority in critical race theory and black studies, and is featured in several textbooks. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology. Visit his website, www.rhymesworld.com, or contact him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @drRhymes .

The Failed Drug War And The Racially-Biased Criminal Injustice System

A closer and deeper look is the historical, legal and social connections shows the continuance of such policies is a true travesty of justice.

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Much has been said about the prison-industrial complex and the failed “war on drugs.” What merits a closer and deeper look is the historical, legal and social connections that makes the continuance of such policies a true travesty of justice.   Don’t know much about history Over the last 40 years, more than 45 million drug-related arrests

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Hotel California: Recent Scandals And Studies Reveal Gulag-Like Prison System

Americans should own up to the fact that, in terms of prison conditions, we reap what we sow.

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Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before "Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!" -- The Eagles, "Hotel California" (1977) In the past month or so, we have been given a window into the

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Egyptian Coup-eration: Blurry Lines Between Democracy And Military Shadow Governance

The Morsi government was unpopular and ineffective. But history shows that military intervention doesn’t end well.

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Mohammed Morsi, the first democratically elected leader of Egypt, was ousted from power by the Egyptian military after just one year in office. Although he had won more than 50 percent of the votes to become Egypt’s first freely elected president, the election was more of case of voting against Mubarak’s former prime minister, Gen. Ahmad Shafiq and

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Ill-Gotten Gains: Big Pharma’s Sick Hold On Doctors And The Health Care Economy

Patients’ needs compete with the dancing dollar signs in their physicians’ heads.

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Pharmaceutical companies’ grip on the practice of medicine and healthcare is near absolute. From its influence over medical students to the bribing of their generic drug-making competition, Big Pharma has shown that making more money is preferable to making more people well.   Educate to disseminate A study published in the Journal of

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That’s Rich: The One Percent’s Hypocritical Litmus Test Of ‘Violence’

Sorry, Mr. Trump, but white people commit violence, too — they just do it with wars and workplace accidents. But that’s beside the point.

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Donald Trump can always be counted on for a certain perspective. So when he, without context, asserted that our nation’s violent crime problem generates almost exclusively from the Black and Hispanic communities, it came as no surprise. Friday morning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seemed to echo Trump's remarks. What these statement

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Pathology, Inc. — The Corporation As Sociopath

If there’s such thing as «corporate personhood,» then why do corporations only seem to behave like the very worst of people?

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DEXTER

When the fascination with the Showtime's series "Dexter" – about the serial-killing medical examiner – was on the rise, I remembered a documentary called The Corporation, which was released about 10 years ago. In it, the filmmakers postulate that since the law recognizes corporate “personhood,” certain corporations can (or ought to) be given the

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Dear Right Wing: Disagreeing With Obama Doesn’t Mean I Agree With You

The voices that give an “atta boy” whenever someone critiques the president are usually the same ones that cheered on the Iraq War and were silent on torture.

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In this writing “I” will be used with greater frequency than any of my previous pieces. Across the world-wide web I’ve seen many comments in regard to my criticisms of some of President Obama’s policies by, shall I say, ardently conservative individuals. Rarely do they address what the actual point of the piece, but instead pivot to some

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