{"id":162,"date":"2014-12-09T04:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:43:29","slug":"michael-brown-eric-garner-peace-violence-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/michael-brown-eric-garner-peace-violence-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brown and Eric Garner: <BR\/>Peace and Violence in \u201cAmerican Democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Global_Research.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Global_Research-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"Global_Research\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Global_Research-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Global_Research.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My December 8th article published in Global Research is entitled:<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brown and Eric Garner: Peace and Violence in \u201cAmerican Democracy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I deal with the situations in Ferguson, New York and Berkeley in the context of analyzing the controversial issues of peace and violence. How do these contested factors play out in \u201cAmerican democracy\u201d? What are the inner-workings of democracy in the U.S. and the role of the establishment media? For the full article, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/michael-brown-and-eric-garner-peace-and-violence-in-american-democracy\/5418784\" target=\"_blank\">Global Research.<\/a> What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My December 8th article published in Global Research is entitled: Michael Brown and Eric Garner: Peace and Violence in \u201cAmerican Democracy\u201d I deal with the situations in Ferguson, New York <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/michael-brown-eric-garner-peace-violence-american-democracy\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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