“There are six factors involved: Iran, sales of arms, Israel, the CIA, indifferent cruelty, and the system of empire.”
Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/55-u-s-senators-voted-genocide-yemen/
“Why did 55 cheerful, well-fed, safe people in suits just vote for mass-murder?”
Read more: http://davidswanson.org/why-55-u-s-senators-voted-for-genocide-in-yemen/
“Keep in mind, Trump adamantly supported the legalization of drugs, long before he made a serious run at the presidency.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-evidence-is-in-the-death-penalty-wont-win-the-drug-war/
“The street’s enhanced security and isolated location have attracted some of the wealthiest and most powerful politicians in California over the years, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Cheng says the outcome of the hearing shows that a different standard of government applies to the rich and politically connected in San Francisco.”
“No American is safer because Ross Ulbricht is in jail for life. He is just one more casualty of our futile war against drugs.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/07/government-threw-silk-roads-founder-in-j/print
“The first bombs to fall on Musa Qala didn’t fall on a ‘Taliban narcotics production facility.’ They fell on Hajii Habibullah’s house, killing him, his wife, his seven-year-old daughter, four sons aged between three and eight, as well as a visiting adult daughter and her year-old daughter. Only the son-in-law sleeping in a guest house on the property survived.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/feb/10/trumps_afghanistan_taliban
“Local, state, and federal agencies have a long history of targeting, harassing, and entrapping fans of untraditional music. Because so many innocuous activities have become criminalized in recent decades, it has never been easier for the feds to tar any group they please.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/guilt-musical-association/
“The good news is that the recently passed Republican tax reform package partially shifted the country to a territorial tax system. The bad news is that it only benefits companies.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/12/americas-punishing-worldwide-t
“The officer who shot McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder. Van Dyke’s lawyers sought to compel me to testify on the basis of their claim, for which they offered no evidence, that the source had given me documents protected under the Garrity rule, which protects public employees from being compelled to incriminate themselves during internal investigations conducted by their employers.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/laquan-mcdonald-case-first-amdendment/
“Under so-called ‘legitimate’ circumstances, such as seeking higher wages, union members can potentially get away with slashing tires or detonating pipe bombs in order to coerce their opponents.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/close-the-loophole-legalizing-union-violence/