Welcome to police-state America, weary traveler
How to make the tourists feel unwelcome, and citizens sick.
Jury awards 4 cents to family of man killed by sheriff’s deputy
“I think they were trying to insult the case,” the family’s lawyer, John Phillips, added. “Why go there with the $1? That was the hurtful part.”
Why the only answer is to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
Why should banks ever be permitted to use peoples’ bank deposits – insured by the federal government – to place risky bets on the banks’ own behalf?
Prosecutors drop felony charge after Missouri Governor resigns
In light of Eric Greitens’ recent resignation, the Missouri House committee is no longer pursuing impeachment proceedings against the former governor.
500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
The shame of injustice
Everything that causes injustice must be uprooted, within the structures under which we live, but also, and perhaps more importantly, within the consciousness of the individual.
Harvey Weinstein charged with rape
At least 71 men have fallen from power after similar accusations of sexual misconduct emerged during the #MeToo movement.
Eyewitness sketches provide ‘stormy’ results, can lead to false convictions
“These data suggest that the accuracy of eyewitness identification by some victims of crime has been overestimated in data from laboratory studies."
Airmen guarding US nuclear missile base caught using LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy
In total, fourteen airmen were disciplined, while six of them were convicted in courts martial of LSD use or distribution or both.
After latest Gaza slaughter: Open an investigation, end the occupation
The occupation must end, and those responsible for the slaughter must be held accountable.