During his unannounced visit to Afghanistan earlier this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offered misguided praise for the Afghan government as he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment there. He lauded the country for having “come quite a distance already in terms of creating … a much more vibrant government.” Unfortunately, the Afghan government is far from vibrant. More to the point, it is horribly corrupt, incompetent, and illiberal. Instead of offering praise, Americans should be asking why their government continues to support such a dreadful regime. More importantly, why should...
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The Inherent Exploitativeness of Polyamorous Threesomes
Because God loves to fuck with me, yesterday Snapchat pushed a two-year-old Refinery29 essay into my feed that threw me into a very late-to-the-party rage, which I tweeted rabidly. Its subject matter was polyamory -- namely, one couple's selfish quest to find a unicorn, i.e. a single queer woman who will meet their sexual and emotional needs without asking anything for herself. (The term itself could use a great deal of unpacking, but I'll save that for when this site turns into a sociolinguistics blog.) The article demonstrates an astounding lack of self-awareness. It's bad enough that...
Mentally Ill Inmate Slowly Expires Over Five Days in ‘The Bubble’
This article was originally published on the author's personal blog on February 25, 2015. It has been republished here to serve as background information for a follow-up piece that ran at Anti-Media on March 16, 2017. On February 11 a Texas jury awarded $2.4 million to the family of Robert Montano, an inmate of the Orange County Correctional Facility who in 2011 died while in custody. Montano, who’d been arrested for public intoxication, passed away after spending five days in an isolation unit of the jail known as “the Bubble.” Less than a week after the jury’s ruling an Assistant...
Kelly Thomas case: 5 years later, feds say no criminal charges against Fullerton police officers
Federal prosecutors have decided to not pursue criminal charges against three Fullerton police officers whose violent encounter with Kelly Thomas five years ago resulted in the homeless, mentally ill man's death. Department of Justice officials said Monday that prosecutors have determined that they are unable to prove that former officers Manuel Ramos, Jay Cicinelli and Joseph Wolfe violated Thomas’ civil rights. The now-closed federal civil rights case was the last remaining investigation into 37-year-old Thomas’ death, which drew national attention after security video of his deadly...
08/30/03 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Alan Bock about the invasion of Iraq. Mr. Bock is Senior Editorial Writer for the Orange County Register, and writes the column Eye On The Empire for Antiwar.com. He has also written the books Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana and Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up, and Took His Family Down....
04/12/03 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Alan Bock about the invasion of Iraq. Mr. Bock is Senior Editorial Writer for the Orange County Register, and writes the column Eye On The Empire for Antiwar.com. He has also written the books Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana and Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up, and Took His Family Down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVAPXLpuigc&t=6s
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