WILL “KEYSTONE COPS,” IN THE NAME OF “SECURITY,” BE SUPPRESSING PROTEST AGAINST KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE IN NEBRASKA? Local officials of the pipeline company behind the oil company, TransCanada, are in negotiations with local police enforcement agents about using “off duty” police officers to insure against “violence” among the protesters. The local protest group, Bold [...]
Captured by law enforcement after what was often a violent 24-hour manhunt. the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings last Monday now recovers in a hospital under the careful watch of state and federal officials. With considerable video evidence of his role in the crime, few think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is innocent of participating in [...]
HANDCUFFING KIDS FOR NO REASON. This is the allegation of two whistle-blowing police officers against the practices of the New York Police Department in a class action suit against the city charging racial profiling. They claim that their supervisors maintained quotas of the number of arrests and summonses they were expected to execute in [...]
ANTI-DRONE ACTION: IT’S NOT JUST A 13-HOUR RAND PAUL FILIBUSTER ANYMORE. Medea Benjaming and Noor Mir describe an April “month of uprising” against drone use both domestically and in pursuit of U.S. foreign policy interests. This “uprising” is taking many forms, including prohibitions for police use in many cities and states, protests at the [...]
THE PIVOT TO ASIA AND THE RISE OF “SYMBOLIC” U.S.-CHINA CONFLICT. Various commentators on Asian affairs comment on the possibility that both the U.S. and Chinese governments are engaged in actions of belligerence toward one another to divert publics in both their countries from failures of domestic economic policies. Filipino Asian expert Walden [...]
HOMEGROWN THREATS: NYPD DEFINES SUCH MUSLIM BEHAVIORS AS GIVING UP SMOKING, GAMBLING AND HIP HOP MUSIC AS INDICATIONS OF THEIR “JIHADIZATION.” In New York as elsewhere Muslim Americans are subjected to very intrusive surveillance at any places where they might congregate with fellow Muslims, not only at mosques but cafes and book stores that they [...]
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN? DOWNLOADING ZERO DARK THIRTY FOR LESS THAN A DOLLAR. Government of Antigua is accused by government of the United States of operating a form of “state sponsored piracy” by setting up a website from which users can download Hollywood movies and music industry songs at extremely cheap rates, even though [...]
L.A. UNDRESSED BY RUTH FOWLER. British journalist and screen-writer who wrote “Girl, Undressed,” based on her experience in the New York City sex trade, deconstructs the public outrage concerning Christopher Dorner, the deranged former LAPD officer turned cop killer. As usual, public notice focuses on the derangement and not what was in the mind [...]
FIRST THE SENTENCE, THEN THE VERDICT: THE WAR ON TERRORISM IN WONDERLAND. Lewis Carroll’s classic depiction of a trial of Alice evokes the kind of “legal procedure” in which people are convicted and punished before or even instead of being found guilty after presentation of the evidence of their crimes. A legal memorandum from the Office [...]
”UNLESS YOU CAN AFFORD TO PARTAKE IN OUR CUSTOMS AND CONVENTIONS, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.“ Damien Shannon describes this as the operative “policy” of Oxford University in England. He was rejected for admission because he could not raise 12,000 pounds a year in personal income available to support the “customs and conventions” which [...]
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