Story: US cited for police violence, racism in scathing UN review on human rights
It is not likely that major U.S. news outlets will pick this up, but this continuing deterioration of the country's behavior toward its own people and its standing in the world are things that aren't going away.
In addition to what's in this new report, the country's press freedom ranking continues to drop, now ranked 49th out of 180 countries (http://cnn.it/1Heh5hr); many countries outrank us when it comes to education (http://bit.ly/1E3lMTG http://bit.ly/1l8Crgc); income inequality is atrocious (http://bit.ly/1gIyU8u); and our health care system is ranked as the worst in the developed world (http://ti.me/1lAS2c4).
With all these issues (and many more), we actually have large numbers of people who see as more important things like yet another war, nutty conspiracy theories like a federal invasion of Texas, denying climate change (and science in general), and putting more outdated religious ideas on the law books.
Our future doesn't look particularly bright.
It is not likely that major U.S. news outlets will pick this up, but this continuing deterioration of the country's behavior toward its own people and its standing in the world are things that aren't going away.
In addition to what's in this new report, the country's press freedom ranking continues to drop, now ranked 49th out of 180 countries (http://cnn.it/1Heh5hr); many countries outrank us when it comes to education (http://bit.ly/1E3lMTG http://bit.ly/1l8Crgc); income inequality is atrocious (http://bit.ly/1gIyU8u); and our health care system is ranked as the worst in the developed world (http://ti.me/1lAS2c4).
With all these issues (and many more), we actually have large numbers of people who see as more important things like yet another war, nutty conspiracy theories like a federal invasion of Texas, denying climate change (and science in general), and putting more outdated religious ideas on the law books.
Our future doesn't look particularly bright.
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