Category Justice
Bill Moyers | A Poignant Poem That Encapsulates 2016
Bill Moyers shares “Starting with Black,” which addresses the “urgent political and moral crisis” that we currently face. Bill Moyers. (photo: PBS) By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers & Company RSN December 31, 2016 y friend Jim Haba, a fine poet in his own right, has done more than anyone I know to democratize the popularity […]
Pratap Chatterjee | Publish, Punish, and Pardon, Obama’s Last Chance
So, at this late date, what might a president frightened by his successor actually do…
Marie Braun | Iraq: Forgiving the Unforgivable
[Rasouli] wonders if U.S. citizens believe these wars, which could cost up to $6 trillion, were worth it.
ISIS in America: The Terror Trial That Shook Minnesota (Video)
An ISIS cell. An undercover FBI agent. A community torn apart.
Kill the Black Snake | No Pipeline
‘We are protectors, not protesters’
Sarah van Gelder | White People: Stop Saying We Need Dialogue
Her answer was clear: Stop killing us. Which raises a more difficult question: Who has the power to do that?
CCR takes Turkmen v. Ashcroft case to the Supreme Court
For over 14 years, CCR has insisted that no one is above the law, no matter how exalted their role.
Chris Hedges | The New Slave Revolt
These striking prisoners are far more effective, and far more threatening to the corporate state, than the outside multitudes entranced and manipulated by the Donald Trump andHillary Clinton Goon Show.
Marjorie Cohn | Trump’s Blindness Toward Slavery, Jim Crow
The head of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent compared police killings of African-Americans in the United States to lynchings.
Ed Dickinson | Eulogy for David Skeie
…in the 40 years that I have known Dave Skeie, I have never known a single person who did not like him, such was the power he had to connect with people, often people very different from himself.
Surveillance, freedom of speech, civil liberties
With the advent of the National Security State many articles related to surveillance, freedom of speech, and civil liberties appear routinely. Links provided.
The FBI Plot to Entrap Somali Youth
To bring serious charges against the youth, the government had to show that the youth were “predisposed” to do something. The FBI set up a sting operation to ensnare them. To assist with it, they engaged [a] 20-year-old [informant].
Henry Giroux: Liberty and Justice for All? (Video)
Giroux argues that the United States’ embrace of a surveillance state and culture of violence have replaced the values of freedom, liberty and justice, putting American democracy in jeopardy.
Chris Corrigan | Radical innovation is never acceptable
All effective forms of protest are illegal until they succeed.
“Dog Whistle” Is the GOP’s Longtime Political Weapon of Choice
“Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class”: The interview is an insighful analysis of race in politics, including but not limited to the current race between Hillary and Trump.
John Kiriakou | Hillary Clinton Email Investigation Shows Inherent Unfairness in U.S. Justice System
First, I want to be clear that I’m not angry at Hillary Clinton personally. I don’t like Hillary. I don’t support her. I don’t trust her. I don’t think she would be a good or trustworthy president. But that’s not the issue here. The issue is the inherent unfairness in the system.
Henry Giroux | The Racist Killing Machine in the Age of Anti-Politics
We are in a new historical era, one that is marked a culture of lawlessness, extreme violence, and disposability, fueled, in part, by a culture of fear, a war on terror, and a deeply overt racist culture that is unapologetic in its disciplinary and exclusionary practices. This deep seated racism is reinforced by a culture of cruelty that is the modus operandi of neoliberal capitalism–a cage culture, a culture of combat, a hyper masculine culture that views killing those most vulnerable as sport, entertainment, and policy.
Aislinn Pulley | The System That Killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Cannot Be Reformed
We are fighting for a world in which death at the hands of senseless violence — including the violence of the state or vigilantes, and the poisoning of the planet by pollution and war — is a distant memory of an antiquated society long ago.
Michael Eric Dyson | What White America Fails to See
You do not condemn these cops; to do so, you would have to condemn the culture that produced them — the same culture that produced you. Black people will continue to die at the hands of cops as long as we deny that whiteness can be more important in explaining those cops’ behavior than the dangerous circumstances they face.
US: Immigrant Mothers, Children Being Detained in Private Jails
The report shows the extent to which ICE grants financial benefits to private and public entities such as the GEO Group along with the public entity Berks Family Residential Center, through government contracts requiring ICE to pay for a set number of beds at detention facilities.
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