A former stand-out agent at the Drug Enforcement Agency, José Irizarry, says the police force knows the drug war is unwinnable. In an interview with the Miami Herald, Irizarry claimed that a group of agents calling themselves “Team America” are using their power for profit.
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Cop Admits to Responding to Child Rape Case by Raping 14 Year Old Victim Himself
by Matt Agorist | Nov 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know, police officers are arrested weekly in this country for sex crimes involving children. This is a massive problem but becomes even worse when victims of child sex abuse seek out help and run right into the arms of...
Former Detective Arrested For Kidnapping Young Black Girls, Forcing Them Into Sex Slavery
by Matt Agorist | Nov 15, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced myriad charges against former Kansas City Police Department detective Roger Golubski and three other men—Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson and Richard Robinson. The group of men is alleged to have been kidnapping young Black...
Released FBI Document Asserts Saudi Embassy Employee Connected to 9/11
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the past several months, the FBI released thousands of pages of material relating to its investigation of Saudi government links to the 9/11 attacks. This wave of declassifications was pursuant to Executive Order 14040, which President Biden issued on Sept. 3...
UK Supreme Court Rejects Assange Extradition Appeal
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 15, 2022 | News Roundup
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost an appeal to block his extradition to the United States, with the UK’s Supreme Court outright refusing to hear the petition. Some legal options remain open to him, however.
COI #217: Breaking Down SCOTUS’s Vax Mandate Ruling guest Patrick MacFarlane
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 16, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #217, Patrick MacFarlane joins Kyle Anzalone to break down SCOTUS’s ruling on Biden’s OSHA-enforced vaccine mandate and the federally-funded healthcare worker vaccine mandate. Pat explains why the court came to the decision on each case and gives a libertarian...
COI #138: New DOJ Rules Open Massive Loopholes for Spying on Journalists
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 21, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #138, Kyle breaks down several important news stories from around the world. The US Department of Justice announced new rules that prevent federal prosecutors from seeking the records of journalists that publish leaked information. However, Attorney General...
Department of Justice Closes Tamir Rice Inquiry, Will Not File Charges
by Scott Horton | Dec 29, 2020 | Blog
Of course. Listen up here: Go and read this important article right now. It explains EVERYTHING. Tamir Rice's Basically Reasonable Murder
Afghan Talks Off to a Rocky Start as Violence Spikes
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 23, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #11, Kyle and Will update ongoing peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, which continue despite a sharp spike in violence in the country. Trump's Department of Justice has designated Seattle, Portland and New York City as...
Hitman Kills Son of Judge Overseeing Deutsche Bank-Epstein Trial
by Scott Horton | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
Now that is some 100-level gangster sh*t right there. You might have thought a federal judge overseeing a case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice was untouchable. But you would be wrong. So did the bank have her son killed? Did Benjamin Netanyahu do it? Or was...
Background Checks Lead to Gun Confiscation in California
by K. Lloyd Billingsley | May 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Since last July 1, California has required background checks for those purchasing firearm ammunition. As we noted, by December 2019 the state had run 345,000 background checks and rejected 62,000 Californians legally entitled to purchase ammunition, including off-duty...
New Report Nations Largest Forfeiture Program Fails To Fight Crime
by Andrew Wimer | Jun 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
A new Institute for Justice study (PDF) finds the nation’s largest forfeiture program does not help police fight crime. Instead, the study indicates police use forfeiture to boost revenue—in other words, to police for profit. The IJ study, “Fighting Crime or Raising...
Only conspiracy theory kooks believe there is a Deep State
by Steven Woskow | Apr 23, 2019 | Blog
The Deep State vs. Wikileaks by Pepe Escobar The US Government has stood up and coordinated a joint interagency criminal investigation of Wikileaks comprised of a partnership between the Department of Defense (DOD) including: CENTCOM; SOUTHCOM; the Defense...
2/22/19 Ben Freeman Follows the Foreign Policy Money Trail in Washington
by Scott Horton | Feb 27, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ben Freeman explains the ways that lobbies, particularly foreign ones, can influence politicians in Washington by disguising where their money is coming from. Despite safeguards against this type of influence, the money is rampant. Discussed on the show: "Following...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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