US News The UN Specia Rapprator for torture says Chelsea Manning is being tortured. [Link] Missouri police extorted $2.6 million from motorists by threatening to take them to jail or signing papers that forfeit their assets. [Link] Alex Jones was ordered by a judge to...
In the year 2000, the CIA gave Iran (slightly and obviously flawed) blueprints for a key component of a nuclear weapon. In 2006 James Risen wrote about this “operation” in his book State of War. In 2015, the United States prosecuted a former CIA agent, Jeffrey...
US News Black drivers in Missouri are 91% more likely to be pulled over than white drivers. [Link] A new law will require some Alabama sex offenders to be medically castrated before getting parole. [Link] All criminal charges have been dropped against Flint officials...
Muller Report Analysis Jim Bovard reacts to the Mueller Report. [Link] Scott Horton’s notes on Mueller report. [Link] Aaron Mate and Jimmy Dore explain how the Mueller Report fails to prove the Russiagate conspiracy theory. Dore and Mate critique the media's coverage...
Economist Walter Williams has called the minimum wage “one of the most effective tools in the arsenal of racists everywhere in the world.” Yet today’s “Fight for $15” has placed a federal minimum wage increase at center stage. "The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is a...
Prior to 1968, most adults in the United States could purchase a firearm without state interference. Guns were available in local retail stores, as well as mail-order catalogs, and as long as you hadn’t been convicted of a felony and you had the funds, there weren’t...
US News Fiat Chrysler will pay $650 million in settlement for emissions cheating. [Link] A lawsuit in Missouri challenges the Constitutionality of laws that prevent people from feeding the homeless. The lawsuit claims the laws infringe on the freedom of religion by...
Police shoot and kill an innocent man while responding to a shooting at a mall. Initial reports of the shooting claimed the innocent man was the criminal. [Link] A Missouri woman was sentenced to 20 days in prison for speeding. [Link] Sheldon Richman argues Trump is...
