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States Accused Of Passing Off Mentally Ill To Other States

State agencies bused more than 1,500 mental health patients to almost every state in the contiguous United States.

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese

James Flavy Coy Brown, a psychiatric patient diagnosed with schizophrenia, anxiety and depression, found himself at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas in February 2013 after a bout of depression and suicidal thoughts forced him out of his group home. After three days there, the attending doctors informed Brown he was stable enough to

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Obama Administration Unlawfully Reading Thousands of U.S. Emails Each Year

Forget about gathering user « metadata », the government has been found downloading actual emails and recording actual phone calls.

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels
Thousands of American's emails were downloaded by the NSA since before 2011. (Photo/Pascual López via Flickr)

The saga of the National Security Administration (NSA) surveillance on Americans continued this week after declassified documents showed that Washington has been monitoring and unlawfully reading thousands of emails each year, going a step farther than the collection of “metadata” revealed earlier this year by former NSA contractor Edward

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US Homeland Security Employee Moonlights As Black Supremacist

Kimathi declared that “Warfare is eminent,” and that “in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites, more than our Christian hearts can possibly count.”

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke

This week the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) exposed an anti-White, anti-gay website known as “War is on the Horizon,” run by a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employee, Ayo Kimathi. On his website, Kimathi declared that “Warfare is eminent,” and that “in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a

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A Grim Future For Released Palestinian Prisoners

The 26 freed men represent the first of four phases that will total 104 high-level “security” prisoners.

Patrick O. Strickland
Par Patrick O. Strickland
Released Palestinian prisoner Hosni Sawalha is hugged upon his arrival to his family house in Azmout village near Nablus in the West Bank, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Israel agreed to release 26 Palestinian prisoners, most of them held for deadly attacks and most have already served around 20 years, as a part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to a resumption of Mideast negotiations. (AP Photo / Nasser Ishtayeh)

JENIN—“You can’t imagine what it feels like to know you’re leaving prison to live with your family again,” says Sabih Abed Hammed Borhan, who was released last week along with 25 other Palestinian prisoners. The 26 freed men represent the first of four phases that will total 104 high-level “security” prisoners Israel claims to be releasing as a

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Who Is Evo Morales, The Man Offering Snowden Asylum

Morales rose to prominence as the leader of the Bolivian Movement for Socialism (MSM) in 2005.

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels

Tumultuous U.S.-Bolivian relations took a turn for the worse last month when a plane carrying Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was diverted and forced to land in Austria after departing Russia. European authorities thought that Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower, was on board Morales’ plane, setting off a diplomatic row

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After Judge Rules NYPD Stop-And-Frisk Unconstitutional, Detroit Expands Its Own Program

The department recently announced an expansion of the program to allow officers in the department’s Traffic Unit to pull-over and question suspicious drivers.

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke
The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, walks with demonstrators during a silent march to end the "stop-and-frisk" program in New York, Sunday, June 17, 2012. . (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The controversial police practice known as stop-and-frisk may be synonymous with the New York Police Department, but the policy has also been widely used by law enforcement in another U.S. city: Detroit. Hoping to prevent street crime, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the department has used the policy for “some years” and says he has no

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