“While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/26/why-no-outrage-over-u-s-killing-of-children/
“The justices said in a 5-4 opinion that state government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be compelled to pay a share of union dues for covering the cost of negotiating contracts.”
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html
“The stock prices of oligopoly private prison companies Geo Group and CoreCivic have been rising ever since the Trump announcement.”
Read more: http://inthesetimes.com/article/21234/private-prison-trump-family-separation-immigration-ice
“The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s ‘extreme willingness to help.'”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/
“A visitor from France says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. So began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4717060
“The Canadian government has worked for the past three years to expand its involvement in Tuscan, without public acknowledgment or public consultation.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/canada-us-tuscan-anti-terrorist-database-at-borders
“A company that developed a massive database for police body cameras has joined forces with the world’s biggest manufacturer of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles to sell surveillance drones to police departments.”
“Government is the employer of first resort — even when it has nothing much for its employees to do. That’s part of a tacit agreement between ruling families and citizens.”
“Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Gorsuch, cast the tie-breaking vote to drop the guillotine on online small businesses.”