“If a member of Congress can’t even get a peek at an immigration detention facility near the border with Mexico, it inevitably raises questions about what the federal government is hiding.”
“Officials from Guatemala’s Ministry of Foreign affairs delivered her body to weeping relatives, friends and neighbors.”
“Horrifying images of devastation continue to pour out of Guatemala, after the eruption of the ‘Fuego’ volcano near the country’s capital.”
“The Congolese asylum seeker who heard her six year old scream, ‘Don’t take me away from my mommy!’ and couldn’t reach her. The woman forced to put her 18 month old in a car seat in an ICE van, the door slamming shut before she could even say goodbye. The man who hasn’t seen his son in six months. The rows of children sleeping on thin mats behind chain-linked fences. The kids being led by guards to make phone calls, hands tied behind their backs. The prison van full of infant car seats.”
“Even though he undoubtedly doesn’t realize it, Jose Cardenas has indirectly weighed in on the John Kennedy assassination.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/07/could-a-u-s-domestic-coup-ever-be-justified/
“Iran remains one of 33 countries, including the United States, that mete out the ultimate punishment for drug offenses — but it dramatically raised the quantities of drugs needed to merit the death penalty.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/04/youll_never_believe_what_country
“It is unsettling that so many innocent people are being killed by U.S. forces, especially in wars that are not authorized by Congress and have an increasingly tenuous connection to American security.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/06/the-us-says-it-killed-500-civilians-last
“It’s the culmination of a long, arduous effort to legalize medical marijuana in the Sooner state.”
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/oklahoma-newest-medical-marijuana-cannabis-state-months-end
“Like other facilities that store precious metals, the Texas Bullion Depository insures them and has complex security measures to guard people’s assets. Depositors can buy metals from a dealer and have them shipped directly to the depository, or send in what they already own.”
“If they get caught selling prohibited pickles, they could face a $25,000 fine.”
Read more: https://steemit.com/freedom/@doitvoluntarily/texas-family-fight-for-freedom-to-sell-pickles