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Notorious Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, found guilty in 2013 of racial profiling and violating Latinos' constitutional rights, has now been found in contempt of court for failing to curtail those practices and in fact flouting the judge's orders. The ruling on Friday from U.S. District Judge Murray Snow "marked one of the biggest legal defeats" in
‘[I]f there is anything that frightens me in remembrance of the Holocaust, it is noticing horrific processes which developed … in Germany – 70, 80, and 90 years ago, and finding evidence of them here among us in the year 2016,’ Maj. Gen. Yair Golan told an audience earlier this month.
SEATTLE --- Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, was commemorated in Israel and throughout the Jewish world earlier this month with solemn ceremonies of remembrance. But one speech rocked Israel with its moral criticism of Israeli society. Speaking to an audience gathered at Tel Yitzhak, a kibbutz in central Israel, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan,
After Snowden revealed that the U.S. was conducting surveillance on millions of people around the world, ‘I began questioning the morality of my work,’ wrote the former military intelligence analyst in a recent editorial.
WASHINGTON --- A former military intelligence analyst praised the work of Edward Snowden last week, and urged others in the government to follow the whistleblower’s example. “I believe that we need people like Snowden to keep our government in check,” wrote Dan R. Sendik in a May 13 editorial for USA Today entitled “Needed: More Snowdens.”
At one point early Friday, the bidding surpassed $65 million with the leading bidder using the screen name « Racist McShootFace. »
MIAMI — Bidding in an online auction for the pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin appeared to have been hijacked by fake accounts posting astronomically high bids. At one point early Friday, the bidding surpassed $65 million with the leading bidder using the screen name "Racist McShootFace."
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald noted that Temer will ‘faithfully serve the interests of Brazil’s richest’ along with the interests of Goldman Sachs and the International Monetary Fund.
SAO PAULO --- Brazil's new acting president is a known U.S. informant who has provided Washington with insider information about the Brazilian government on multiple occasions. Michel Temer's ties to the U.S. government, as revealed by WikiLeaks' Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy, add to the growing body of evidence that the parliamentary
“The major achievement of the Free Society is in the ability to change the status quo without violence, to cast a current practice into limbo and adopt a new one by an election.”
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
ST. PAUL, Minnesota --- Fifty-one years after the Voting Rights Act, illegitimacy follows the 2016 primaries like a tail. Roll purges by the NY Board of Elections, who stripped 126,000 Kings County and 60,000 Brooklyn voters of their voting rights; poll closures imposed by the AZ Maricopa County Recorder who opened 1 polling station for every
