Category Incarceration Nation
The New ‘Black Codes’
Chris Hedges Mr. Fish / Truthdig The police forces in impoverished urban communities, equipped with military-grade weapons and empowered to harass and kill largely at will, along with mass incarceration, are the principal tools for the social control of the poor. There is little pretense of justice and even less of protection and safety. The […]
Here is what self-described patriots think is a good thing +Update
Brilliant move by POTUS provides way for win-win for NFL kneeling protestors I thought it was “unfucking believable” that they thought it was a good thing. I’ll try to reconstruct my comment later today. Basically I said it was an autocratic lottery where Kardashians and football players could petition for their friends and it does […]
Beware B.I.E. surveillance: It’s about stifling dissent
Neo-blacks don’t have to worry, though, since they don’t dissent. Indeed the ultimate defining characteristic of the Neo-Black is that they don’t dissent politically. We will soon see that the term Black Identity Extremist will apply to all black dissenters of empire, with or without Donald Trump. Is a Court Case in Texas the First […]
Slavery LEGALIZED In United States; Here’s How We’re Being Tricked Into Supporting It — Counter Current News
Though slavery was supposedly made illegal in 1865, it has continued in the form of a legal cluster-fuck. Because of a loophole in the 13th Amendment, slavery has been allowed to continue “as a punishment for crimes” and the prison industry has taken full advantage of this. Corporations have lobbied to change the definition of what… […]
Former Nixon Aide Admits War On Drugs Was A Big Lie; Was Never About Drugs
By Brandon Turbeville In an interview conducted by Harper’s Dan Baum nearly 22 years ago, former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman admitted what many have known ever since the beginning – that the Nixon administrations’ War On Drugs was a giant lie. To clarify, it was not Nixon’s police state that was a lie. […]
Bill Clinton’s dark legacy
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2015/06/as-we-were-saying.html As we were saying. . . . The Review has been one of the few progressive journals willing to report on how conservative Bill Clinton actually was, the furthest to the right since at least Woodrow Wilson. So we’re glad to see Alternet catch up with the facts. Alternet Prison-loving president. In May, on […]
Ferguson: Portent of the Police State
The Shocking Finding From the DOJ’s Ferguson Report That Nobody Has Noticed Nathan Robinson This post was co-authored by Oren Nimni, a civil rights attorney in Boston and member of the National Lawyers Guild’s executive board. In the city of Ferguson, nearly everyone is a wanted criminal. That may seem like hyperbole, but it is […]
Chicago Cops Have 3 Torture Sites. We Have One Month To Stop Them.
Originally posted on Video Rebel's Blog:
In one month Chicago elects a mayor. Neither the mayor nor his opponent in the April 7th runoff election have yet bothered to take a position on the existence of the Chicago Police Department’s 3 torture facilities. These are ‘Black Sites’ where the cops are allowed to take…
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