“The Barn is openly used by humanitarian aid groups that provide food, water, and medical care to the adults and children who come stumbling out of the Arizona desert exhausted, dehydrated, and sometimes on the verge of death.”
“If Prop 66 had been in place when Mr. Benavides was convicted, he’d almost certainly be dead. He’d never have lived to see his exoneration.”
“The U.S. embraced defeated German and Japanese doctors who intentionally drowned, gassed, suffocated, froze, burned, poisoned, infected, shot, stabbed and dissected living men, women and children to death to advance its own weapons of mass destruction programs.”
“Dookhan was paroled after three years and released from prison before the sentences of those she helped convict were vacated. Despite the clear wrongdoing, the state still fought against dismissing the tainted cases.”
“There has never been an investigation into the Thai officials or agencies involved in the CIA’s covert detentions, which continued until at least 2004 and probably violated national laws.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-thailand-cia-haspel-2018-htmlstory.html
“Meanwhile, thousands of people who were arrested previously for what is now legal in many places continue to languish in prisons.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/marijuana-legalization-arrests-increase/
“Shortly before the Waco showdown, U.S. government officials signed an international Chemical Weapons Convention treaty. But the treaty contained a loophole permitting governments to gas their own people.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/383407-bitter-lessons-25-years-after-waco-texas-siege
“25 years ago today, the U.S. government used chemical weapons on American civilians, which resulted in the death of nearly 80 men, women, and children.”
“Palacio’s ranch is situated north of the Mexican border. Exactly how far away is of utmost importance when it comes to what rights you have in the US, where it’s commonly said that borders are a ‘Constitution-free zone’.”
“An elite police squad robbing its own citizens, stealing thousands of dollars and re-selling confiscated drugs — all seven cops were on the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.”