Former sheriff’s sergeant sentenced to prison for assaulting detainee on video
In addition to writing a false report after the incident to justify the assault, Prejean was caught on surveillance video repeatedly striking the compliant detainee while ordering his police dog to bite him for no apparent reason.
A nation of the walking dead
The corporate state will expand our access to a variety of opioids and numbing situations to temporarily alleviate our stress, financial dislocations, depression and anxiety.
2.9 million children are threatened by toxic air pollution from oil & gas development
Living within a 1/2 mile of these production facilities is clearly correlated with negative health impacts.
Forty-four states refuse to release private voter info to Trump commission
Instead of protecting the privacy of voters or the integrity of fair elections, Trump continues to waste time and resources on a fiction that he has failed to prove time and again.
25 Dallas police officers face disciplinary measures for bigoted social media posts
“We hope this is shifting the conversations in the department away from a them-versus-us mentality and into a community policing mentality.”
Global outrage after Israel seizes Gaza-bound aid ship in international waters
With activists from 10 countries aboard, including Greta Thunberg and a member of the European Parliament, Israel’s armed interception of the Madleen is being condemned as piracy and a violation of international law.
Iran punished for treatment of women
The U.S. initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission.
Hate speech arrest of ex-US official sparks wider conversation on Islamophobia and anti-Arab sentiment
A clash of prejudice and justice: exposing the underbelly of racial and religious intolerance in America.
Everything you need to know about net neutrality
On July 12, 2017 we will remind online users what is at stake if the FCC decides to reverse their net neutrality rules.
Protests surge globally as Gaza death toll rises to unprecedented levels
Massive protests sweep the nation as global outrage over Gaza crisis reaches fever pitch.