“There are now over 10,000 migrant children in government custody in 100 U.S. shelters in 14 states. All 10,000 of these children have been forcibly separated from their parents.”
“Who really gets hurt by Mexican tariffs on American cold cuts? The answer: Mexicans. Who really gets hurt by Canadian tariffs on American steel? Canadians.”
Read more: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=9398
“FBI agents and federal prosecutors aren’t evaluated for their allegiance to scientific principles. They’re evaluated on their ability to close cases and win convictions. Therefore, there’s a strong incentive for them to sacrifice sound science for expedience.”
“Instead of shaming disabled consumers who rely on straws, let’s hold producers of plastic financially responsible for their waste.”
Read more: https://psmag.com/environment/banning-straws-wont-save-the-oceans
“Alarmingly, a majority of millennials would prefer to live under socialism or communism.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/3-myths-of-socialism-debunked-by-venezuela-s-nightmare/
“‘We are not going to do any violence to the traditional definition of a security that has worked for a long time,’ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC Wednesday.”
“Why wouldn’t the CIA and the Pentagon effect a domestic regime-change operation on November 22, 1963?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/why-kennedy-had-to-be-removed/
“A city police officer acting as a security guard didn’t do his job and more than two dozen of his colleagues failed in their duties or violated the civil rights of surviving victims after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre, according to a new federal lawsuit.”
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/31-orlando-police-officers-sued-response-pulse-nightclub/story?id=55714401
“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
“The two men ensnared in Ukraine’s ‘clever’ ruse to weed out Putin’s assassins have turned out to be former Ukrainian counterintelligence officials, who despise Russia, and pledge allegiance to radical, ultra-right neo-Nazi group ‘Right Sector’.”