It's why they become cops in the first place. So they can murder people and get away with it. Like the Golden State Killer. Here the NYT counts 70 people suffocated to death by the cops in the last 10 years. Yes, more than half of them black. And almost all of them stopped for meaningless "offenses" against state edicts, like riding a bike without a light or failure to appear for a civil court case -- entirely innocent people. "I can't breathe."
The U.S.A. has broken in two as The Coasts and Flyover Country go to war over which new nation is more slavishly devoted to serving the state of Greater Israel.
You don't have to agree with him on everything, but he's a great writer and he's sure right about this bullshit. What you guys need is some good Sheldon Richman. Coming up!
As soon as the mob is done burning the CDC to the ground, these sonsabitches at the W.H.O. deserve it next.
For being black on a Thursday. Stop resisting!
Jason Ditz talks about the Turkish attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq, which have taken the form of both land assaults and periodic airstrikes. These incursions began around the time the U.S. invaded Iraq, and have seen little resistance from the Iraqi government. Ditz also discusses the border dispute between India and China, which has long been simmering and recently erupted into hand-to-hand violence that killed several dozen soldiers on both sides. Ditz thinks the killing is over for the time being, but is concerned about the future of the conflict, given both countries’ age-old animosity...
Scott talks to Jonathan Hafetz about the troubling case of Adham Amin Hassoun, a man who was convicted in 2008 of providing material support to terrorist organizations. Hassoun was a legal resident of the United States, but is not a citizen, so upon completion of his prison sentence in 2017, the government sought to deport him. But Hassoun, born in Lebanon to refugee parents, doesn’t hold citizenship in any country, and the U.S. couldn’t find a country to send him to. Instead, they invoked an obscure section of the Patriot Act that supposedly allows them to detain Hassoun indefinitely....
Joe Lauria explains the latest superseding indictment against Julian Assange, who still faces extradition to the U.S. for his supposed violations of the Espionage Act. Lauria’s take is that the new indictment is simply “window dressing,” meant to make Assange look bad by smearing his reputation in the minds of those who follow the case only from afar—the indictment, it turns out, doesn’t even contain any new charges. All along, the name of the game has been trying to make Assange out to be not a publisher of information he received from others, but an actual accomplice in the hacking of...
