7 Years of Work on Food Forest Destroyed Over Permit
"The city council felled an entire stretch of this Urban Food Street, even preventing residents from collecting the fruit before the destruction." Continue reading →
Brave Police Save Town From Man Selling Veggies
"You need food, so you grow some vegetables. If you have extra you sell them on a street corner to your neighbors, and if you live in California you get arrested for it." Continue reading →
The Elusive Search for Justice in the American Police State
"A unanimous Court declared that police should not be held liable for recklessly firing 15 times into a shack where a homeless couple—Angel and Jennifer Mendez—was sleeping." Continue reading →
Trump’s DOJ is going to eviscerate sentencing reform
"Steve Cook is a prime example of a mid-twentieth century mindset trapped in an era of evolving understanding of human nature and criminal justice. The AP continues by reporting that, at the behest of Cook, the 'DOJ’s new policy encouraging harsher punishments for criminals is now turning his attention to hate crimes, marijuana and the ways law enforcement seizes suspects’ cash and property'." Continue reading →
Trump Moves to Destroy Damning CIA Torture Report
"The 6,700 page document excoriated US torture policies after 9/11, and noted that not a single incident of a terrorist attack had been foiled because of the torture." Continue reading →
Lockheed Sees $28 Billion From Saudi Arms Sales; $50 Billion to Boeing
"The massive US arms deal with Saudi Arabia signed last month by President Trump is continuing to drive up arms makers’ stock, though at present the exact dollar values for specific companies are a matter of some speculation. These companies and other well-connected US arms makers are all expected to make quite a bit of money off this new arms deal with Saudi Arabia, as well as more money off of President Trump’s planned military spending increases. As the chance of peace suddenly breaking out looks more and more remote, the arms makers are expected to continue raking in money hand over fist." Continue reading →
US Airstrikes Kill 43 Civilians In Apartments
"After destroying a hospital yesterday in the same part of Raqqa, the US has not publicly commented on today's strike. Such incidents rarely make it into the official Pentagon list of civilian casualties in the two nations, which is usually around 10% of the actual death toll as calculated by private NGOs." Continue reading →
Anti-Muslim Bigots Are “Useful Idiots” for ISIS
"The Islamophobes see themselves as politically incorrect truth-tellers; as bold and blunt opponents of the radicals and the extremists. The reality is that they are the accomplices, the unpaid agents, of those very same radicals and extremists. Every terrorist needs a Katie Hopkins. It is one of the great ironies of our time — those who shout loudest about the threat posed by ISIS are often the biggest propagandists for ISIS." Continue reading →
US Is Killing More Civilians in Syria Air War Than Assad Is
"Exemplified by the hundred and some odd people they’ve killed in the last 48 hours, the US is struggling mightily with the narrative that they are taking extraordinary care to limit the number of civilian casualties in the air war in Syria, and are rapidly losing any pretense of a moral high ground." Continue reading →
U.S. Government Set To Spend Millions On Pro-GMO Propaganda
"The FDA will promote the 'environmental, nutritional, food safety, economic, and humanitarian impacts' of biotech crops and food products." Continue reading →
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