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CNN: After Weeks of Protests, Meaningful Police Reform Appears Unlikely

by Scott Horton | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog

"...But it all may have been for nothing." Instead of trying to entirely abolish racial prejudice from society and demanding every leftist reform under the sun, maybe the Black Lives Matter movement could focus on accountability for killer cops, ending qualified...

Rand Paul Proposes National Breonna Taylor Act

by Scott Horton | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog

Dear Senator, we like it very much when you do good things. Sincerely, Everybody Matt Agorist at the FTP says: Sen. Rand Paul (R) Kentucky, proposed to make this a nationwide ban in one of the most unprecedented anti-police state moves we’ve ever seen. “After talking...

Oh Cool, #SWAT is Trending!

by Scott Horton | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog

I wonder if the Black Lives Matter people have a new effort focusing on banning SWAT Team night raids...! Oh. https://twitter.com/jentaub/status/1271509613654016003

Chicago Cops Terrorize Kids

by Steven Woskow | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog

Oops - wrong address. When heavily armed officers raided a home in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, instead of finding an accused drug dealer, they found 9-year-old Peter Mendez and his family. "It was like my life just flashed before my eyes," Peter said of...

In The Middle Of The Night In The Village

by Steven Woskow | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog

It’s a scene repeated every night – soldiers and Border Police officers gathering at a military base in the West Bank, waiting for the order to head out for another arrest raid. Jerusalem Post reporter Anna Ahronheim rides along with the IDF troops on raids of...

Soldier convicted of massacring 16 Afghans seeks new civilian trial, citing a psychosis inducing anti-malarial drug

by Steven Woskow | Jun 26, 2019 | Blog

I have no idea if this drug caused him to do this, but whatever happened to him the people of Afghanistan suffered the consequences. Now, Bales’ lawyers are using a federal statute that allows convicted service members to challenge their court martial findings in...

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...

What to do if immigration officers come knocking at your door

by Elizabeth Weise | Feb 13, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

Roundups of undocumented immigrants across the country have sent immigrant rights advocates to social media, blasting out information in multiple languages on how those caught up in such raids should respond. If Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents show up...

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If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…

Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.

I Met a Man

Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...

UN Review: No Evidence UNRWA Staff Are Terrorists

The UN’s review on UNRWA’s neutrality notes that Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff members belong to terrorist organizations.

Joe Biden is Such a Liar

He lies about everything. This time it's his uncle Ambrose who was lost at sea during WWII. Genocide Joe lies that he was eaten by cannibals, smearing the people of Papua New Guinea, who fought as America's allies in that war.

John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...

Class versus Identity Politics?

Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...

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