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“Stop and Frisk Meets Guantanamo Bay”

 Portland  Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters

Archives for juillet 2020

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: It’s Time to Dump the Democrats

As in 2016, you’d think it would be easy to beat the Orange Menace, but the Democrats are challenging him with somebody even worse than Clinton, a man in steep cognitive decline.

Riva Enteen
Par Riva Enteen
Biden Democrats

New York City (BAR) — Kamala Harris might be the perfect lens to reveal who the Democrats really are. A good run-down on her track record  highlights her assertion that "It is not progressive to be soft on crime."  As a San Francisco social worker, I sat on the school district committee that met with families of chronically truant students.  Once,

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How Civil Asset Forfeiture Could Undermine Efforts to Defund Police

The public has little control over the police budgets, and no control over their external revenue sources like asset forfeiture, which massively contribute to the expansion of the police state.

Ella Fassler
Par Ella Fassler
Police Reform Feature photo

Shadowproof —Between 2001 and 2017, the federal government seized $40 billion from ordinary people and high profile criminal defendants, including major corporations, through asset forfeiture. The money was funneled into the Assets Forfeiture Fund (AFF), a trust founded in 1984 through the Comprehensive Crime Control Act as part of the War on

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Lee Camp: The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why)

Only the ridiculously profitable drugs are worth hyping. Only the money makers deserve 80,000 commercials telling every consumer to irrationally demand them. The cheap drugs that simply – save lives – those are garbage.

Lee Camp
Par Lee Camp
Remdesivir Feature photo

The American profit-based healthcare system impacts us in more ways than just our gargantuan bill at the excretion end of an emergency room visit. Right now, our lovable idiotic inhumane healthcare system is acting as a hurdle to the manufacture and procurement of the right drugs to treat Covid-19. One of the drugs currently trumpeted as our

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Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats

The age of total dominance of Israel over the US Congress is likely over, and hopefully, this time, for good. 

Ramzy Baroud
Par Ramzy Baroud
AIPAC Feature photo

While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace. Trump’s policies on Israel and Palestine have

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New Tech Company Partnership to Offset Responsibility for Public Safety and Health onto AI

A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete.

Raul Diego
Par Raul Diego
911 tech feature photo

The transition from a manned police force into an AI-assisted panopticon through which populations are monitored 24/7 is occurring at breakneck speed as tech giants like Google, Apple and Microsoft pour millions of dollars into a New York-based startup called RapidSOS, which "transmits data from 911 callers to emergency responders." Now that

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UN Warns COVID-19 Fears Leading to « Alarming » Decline in Immunizations and Hospital Visits

The WHO and UNICEF have expressed concern over what they describe as an “alarming decline” of children’s immunization programs, hospital visits for serious issues, including heart attacks and even a reversal in the fight against AIDS.

Alan Macleod
Par Alan Macleod
COVID-19 Immunizations Feature photo

United Nations agencies are warning that the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to trigger famine and outbreaks of other diseases that could prove far more deadly than the coronavirus itself. Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed grave concern over

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