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Shot By Cops, Thwarted By Judges And Geography

by Steven Woskow | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog

How qualified immunity works: U.S. courts show wide regional disparities in granting qualified immunity, the controversial legal doctrine now under fire for protecting officers accused of excessive force. The shooter was Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Hugo Barron....

Why Does Amy Klobuchar Hate Black People So Much?

by Scott Horton | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog

Evidently, she hates everyone. Here, see, according to the Washington Post, she's a guilty accessory to murder. (They don't call it that when one is employed by the state, but what do you call it?): "Christopher Burns, a 44-year-old black man, was unarmed and at home...

A Not So Isolated Incident

by Rob Faust | Jun 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice

Last week police footage went viral of an incident that happened at New Jersey beach. In the video, a 20-year-old woman, Emily Weinman, was punched in the head several times by a police officer while being arrested. The officer’s justification was that Weinman was...

Police set dog on a driver who politely refuses to answer questions

by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice

https://youtu.be/8985Of40hTo Read the rest at boingboing.net.

Sioux Tribe Says Elder Beaten and Tased by Cop While Trying to Visit Dying Mother

by James Holbrooks | Sep 22, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. South Dakota — The Yankton Sioux Tribe is claiming police used excessive force to prevent one its tribal elders, 64-year-old Raymond Cournoyer Sr., from seeing his dying mother in a nursing home last weekend....

1,900 people died while arrested in 2015. Two-thirds intentionally killed

by Kate Irby | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

There has been a lot of debate recently over excessive force by police, especially after several high-profile deaths during arrests. Now a government agency is adding some vital statistics to that conversation. The Bureau of Justice Statistics released its findings on...

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Happy 30th Birthday Antiwar.com !!!

It has been thirty years since the website Antiwar.com was launched. A defiant reaction to the Clinton administrations interventions in the Balkans during the 1990s. Founded by the late Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris, the site went on to become a platform of...

Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: Writing on X: I nearly missed my flight this...

Trump Debuts the Next US Navy Ship Disaster

POTUS revealed the latest US naval ship catastrophe, the Mango Emperor-class battleship. Apparently he and his staff did not get the memorandum from 8 December 1941. The US Navy has not built a successful hull since the Arleigh Burke (early 90s) and has had huge...

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,...

Christmas Hiatus

The Chasing Ghosts and WarNotes podcasts are on Christmas vacation, next episode will be published on Monday, 5 January 2026. See you next year. Stay strapped for Christmas...

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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...