Since the NSA spying story broke last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about this Martin Niemöller saying: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Jew. Then they came […]
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Richard Engel and Robert Windrem of NBC News published a horrifying report today revealing that the CIA doesn’t always know the identities of the people it’s executing in drone strikes. Their findings are based on a review of 14 months worth of classified documents that describe 114 drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in […]
The Philadelphia School District’s (PSD) state-run School Reform Commission voted in March to close 23 public schools, nearly 10 percent of the city’s total, in a move they say is necessary to plug a $304 million budget deficit.
This video shows a remarkable scene of police overkill in a Harlem subway station on the afternoon of May 13. What begins as two cops from the NYPD trying to handcuff a seemingly unthreatening black man quickly spirals into over two dozen officers flooding the station to arrest him. The video opens with one of the […]
“The way St. Louis streets work, we’re afraid out here. We’re afraid of the police. We’re afraid of other youth who may want to pull a gun and fire on you. So, sometimes people have guns just to protect themselves, not with the intentions to do a criminal act with it.” Those are the words […]
The United States isn’t officially at war with Pakistan. But that hasn’t stopped the U.S. government from bombing whoever they want whenever they see fit. Nor has it stopped the U.S. media from dutifully following up with celebratory applause as was the case this morning when news broke that a U.S. drone strike may have […]
Hussain Al-Khawahir, a 33-year-old Saudi Arabian man and father of three, was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on May 11 after Border and Customs Patrol found a pressure cooker in his luggage. Al-Khawahir will remain jailed until his preliminary hearing on May 28. Pressure cookers have been under increased scrutiny since they were used to make homemade […]
For a state with 24 death row exonerations under its belt (the highest in the country), you would think Florida might want to slow down its execution process to avoid putting innocent people to death. But Florida lawmakers are doing just the opposite
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David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old father of four small children between the ages of 4 and 10, was beaten to death by as many as nine police officers in Bakersfield, California, early Wednesday morning. Police say Silva was intoxicated and fighting officers. But this was contradicted by several eyewitnesses.
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