“At a time when the war is almost won for Assad, he decided to re-ignite international calls for his ouster by senselessly murdering about the same number of civilians the Las Vegas Shooter killed. Seems logical, right?”
“The CIA organized its very first coup in Syria in 1949 to overthrow a democratically elected president and install a military dictator. The U.S. has never given up trying to determine who rules Syria, comments Caitlin Johnstone.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/12/americas-long-history-of-trying-to-determine-who-rules-syria/
“The U.S. is officially fighting wars in seven countries, including Libya and Niger, according to an unclassified White House report sent to Congress this week and obtained by the New York Times.”
“Not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he’s encountered multiple local eyewitnesses who experienced the chaos of that night, but who say the gas attack never happened.”
“The origins of the present-day surveillance state can be traced back to the U.S. government’s military occupation of the Philippines in the late 1890s.”
Read more: http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/30/u-s-foreign-intervention-created-domestic-surveillance-state/
“Baltimore officials are either ignoring the data, which show traffic cameras cause more harm than good, or, more plausibly, they just want to extort money out of drivers.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/baltimores-failed-surveillance-regime/
“We have not criminalized parents who choose to raise their kids in homes with stairs. But increasingly we have criminalized parents who choose to let their kids out of their sight.”
Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/03/31/why-parents-are-more-paranoid-than-ever/
“A significant percentage of the world’s violence could be prevented with a flick of a pen by ending the War on Drugs.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-war-on-drugs-is-far-deadlier-than-most-people-realize/
“Police and investigators had this video evidence the same night Sterling was killed yet they did nothing with it and waited until their officers were cleared in his death before releasing it.”
Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/body-camera-footage-released-alton-sterling/
“If gun control activists really want the country to reconsider its relationship with guns and violence, then it needs to start with a serious discussion about the role our government has played and continues to play in contributing to the culture of violence.”