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Judge Says Conditions at U.S. Border Holding Cells Violated the Constitution

by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog

Newsweek: A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution. In a case first launched in 2015 over conditions at Tucson sector holding facilities, U.S. District Judge David Bury said on Wednesday that the conditions migrants and asylum seekers have had to face under CBP custody have been "substantially worse than detainees face upon commitment to either a civil immigration detention facility or even a criminal detention facility, like a jail or prison." "The Court finds that...

MEK Cultists Escape, Describe Their Imprisonment to the NYT

by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog

These are the people that Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton and so many other corrupt, bribed war mongers want to put in power in Tehran: Dozens of former members now live independently in Albania. I met 10 of them, who each described being brainwashed into a life of celibacy. Inside the group, they said romantic relationships and sexual thoughts were banned, contact with family highly restricted, and friendships discouraged. All recounted being forced to participate in self-criticism rituals, whereby members would confess to their commanders any sexual or disloyal thoughts...

Travis County DA Margaret Moore is a Monster

by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog

She is the worst criminal in central Texas. Just like all her predecessors. They don't mind putting innocent young women in prison for fake crimes of which they are completely innocent. And they don't mind doing whatever it takes to keep them there long after their innocence has been proved. Why? It's because Moore, like the rest of them, is a terrible, horrible, self-interested person. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobechar both made it to the U.S. Senate and a major party presidential campaign on the backs of those innocents they've convicted. It's the sure path to more power and influence....

Cops Kill Man

by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog

A completely innocent man. "Call the police!" he cried. But it was the police. They were there to murder him. And so they did.

Neocon John Hannah: “Please Explain This Concept ‘Shame.’ I Do not Understand.”

by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog

Dick Cheney's man: Iraq Needs Regime Change Again The United States faces an increasingly urgent set of first-order policy questions in Iraq. Spoiler alert: The answer is not Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, Iraq’s newly designated prime minister. A popular uprising might be. Allawi’s recent nomination to be Iraq’s next leader is a dead end, for Iraq and the United States alike. He has no chance of resolving the two fundamental crises now plaguing the country: first, the collapse of legitimacy of Iraq’s post-2003 political class, and second, Iraq’s ever-expanding subjugation by Iran and its local...