An Austinite, Javier Ambler. Again, suffocated to death George Floyd-style, this time by the Williamson County Sheriff's Department (no surprise there). “I am not resisting,” Ambler cries. “Sir, I can’t breathe. … Please. … Please.”
Like George Floyd, Oklahoma cops crushed Derrick Scott to death for fun. “I can’t breathe,” Scott said as cops held their weight on top of him. “I don’t care,” one of the officers, Jarred Tipton, can be heard replying to Scott.
Through their depraved indifference: Cops Taunt 24yo Man as He Drowns 10 Feet Away When one cop actually gets up enough courage to go in and attempt to save Baldwin, his fellow “hero” in blue tells him not to do it. “No, don’t go in there with him, he’s going to pull you down,” one officer said.
Poor old guy has no idea that he is literally the one and only single human man who was secretary of defense of the United States of America at the start of the Libya war in 2011. The way he remembers it, he had nothing to do with the war at all. "The consequences of an insufficiently planned military intervention can be devastating. Take, for example, the U.S. intervention in Libya in 2011, which I opposed. Once President Barack Obama decided to go in, the administration made two strategic mistakes. The first was agreeing to expand the original NATO humanitarian mission from simply...
If this ain't the sickest goddam thing. This is what happens to the money the government takes out of your paycheck -- if you're still getting one at all -- they buy M-16s to give Israelis to murder retarded kids with as they steal their land. "They killed him like he was a fly. My son was a fly.”
Kelley Vlahos discusses the scandalous ties between the arms industry and the American government, starting with the fact that so many members of the Defense Department are former employees of top arms firms like Raytheon, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman—and vice versa. This revolving door inevitably leads to a deliberate alignment of the interests of these two parties, meaning more unnecessary wars in the Middle East so we can make and sell more bombs. In particular, the entire justification for allowing the war in Yemen to continue is the fact that America’s weapons deals with Saudi...
Scott and Matt Agorist discuss the recent protests against police brutality that have swept through cities across the nation. Both agree that America’s police are in serious need of reform, though see deficiencies in the proposed solutions of movements like Black Lives Matter. For example, trying to end the war on drugs would remove the excuse for most police interactions in the first place, particularly those with racial minorities and in poor neighborhoods. Simply trying to eliminate personal bias on the level of individual officers, on the other hand, may not be a very promising...
How could anyone still believe that after all this? asks J. D. Tuccille.
