“That is the purpose of U.S. embargoes and sanctions — to kill innocent people in the hopes of achieving either regime change within a foreign country or a change of attitude within a foreign regime.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/05/21/celebrating-the-cuban-air-crash/
“‘I was buying eggs. I don’t think that’s suspicious,’ Ana Suda said after last week’s incident with a Border Patrol agent.”
“Sessions’s child-removal policy actually extends the callousness of current American penal practices.”
“Police originally tried to blame his death on asthma, but now the Jefferson Parish coroner is telling a very different tale.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/16/four_white_louisiana_narcs
“Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use ‘evidence-based, data-driven’ policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/
“The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing.”
“In an industry where power and influence are measured in dollars and cents, this may be the most exclusive club in finance: The price of admission is at least $25 million.”
“Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided that the two cops responsible for this horrifying incident will not be charged.”
Read more: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-killed-police-shower-taser/
“What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater.”
“Fear and loathing of sex offenders lead to results that would be recognized as unjust and illogical in any other context.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/30/he-has-to-register-as-a-sex-offender-for