Tag: police state
Chicago promoted two police officers after investigators found they engaged in...
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
The federal policing of DC has made us less safe
We must continue our defiance and resistance, or we will find that the entire country will be changed and made into a dangerous hostile white plantation once again but for all of us.
Police presence on school grounds poses potential risks to kids
As school communities continue to wrestle with whether to have police on school grounds, I believe the most important thing to consider is not what people believe, but what the evidence shows.
History shows federal agents don’t stop civil unrest
Research on public security in countries that use this tactic finds militarized federal interventions can have unintended—and often negative—consequences.
Buffalo protester Martin Gugino diagnosed with fractured skull
After the incident, officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were suspended for shoving Gugino. On June 6, they were charged with second degree assault.
What’s next, a war between the police and the people, the...
All those taking part in these efforts need to incorporate the ideas of the best and brightest Americans to help in making all this work.
Cop pushes old white man over backwards, leaves victim bleeding and...
This cancer of a creeping police state and of rampant brutality in our communities will continue and grow worse.
U.S. is a classic empire and is becoming a repressive police...
As I set out to fly home from the UK on Monday following a short film project in Cambridge, I found my...
Welcome to police-state America, weary traveler
How to make the tourists feel unwelcome, and citizens sick.
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Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.