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Marijuana raids are more deadly than the drug itself

by Washington Post | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Since 2010, At least 20 SWAT raids involving suspected marijuana dealers have turned deadly, according to data compiled by the New York Times. The list of fatalities includes small-time dealers and people who sold the occasional joint to a friend, as well as people...

Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood

by New York Times | Mar 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Using SWAT officers to storm into homes to execute search warrants has led timeand again to avoidable deaths, gruesome injuries, and costly legal settlements. By Kevin Sack From the lengthy article: As policing has militarized to fight a faltering war on drugs, few...

Why Are Detroit Cops Killing So Many Dogs?

by C.J. Ciaramella | Nov 15, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

A Reason investigation reveals widespread, unchecked violence against pets during drug raids—including two officers who have shot more than 100. A group of Detroit police officers executing a narcotics search warrant knocked on Nikita Smith's door on January 14, 2016....

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The Bloody Weekend: Netanyahu’s Blame Game, Americans Killed, and the Fuentes Backlash

The weekend should have been quiet. Instead, a Hanukkah celebration on a Sydney beach turned into a massacre, a Muslim bystander tackled a shooter, and within hours the tragedy was weaponized. We dig into what happened, why the early “false flag” whispers took hold,...

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I love it that the National Health Service (NHS) socialist medical horror show in the UK uses the handle NHSuk on the X. The United Kingdom prides itself on this crown jewel of medical malpractice & incompetence that is a love child of Benny Hill, Trofim Lysenko...

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Fat Amy is the Exemplar of the American Military Paper Tiger

The foreign purchase entanglement and moral hazard of overspending of the F35 is emblematic of making a two trillion dollar purchase over time where the money is simply wasted but driven to completion by the sheer momentum of the insane and imbecilic US military...

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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole

by Charles Goyette

Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...