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In another horrific incident demonstrating police brutality toward photojournalists, even in Western democracies, a Portuguese policeman attacked AFP photographer Patricia Melo as she covered a general strike in Lisbon yesterday. Workers there were on strike to protest austerity measures imposed on Portugal as a condition of the $100 billion bailout provided to the country by other European nations.

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We need a Doomsday Clock for World Democracy. The corporations seem to be taking over everywhere.
Austerity never turns out to mean spending less money on batons, pepper spray, handcuffs, tear gas, or tasers.