police state

The Military Contractor Making Millions Helping Trump Tear Families Apart

“I’m guessing that in MVM’s mission statement, one of the central components isn’t the care of refugee children.” (CD) While outraged Americans across the country are calling their elected representatives and taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration’s forcible separation of parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, intelligence and defense contractors are raking in millions thanks […]

Why We Should All Be Alarmed That Israeli Troops Are Training US Police Forces

The Israeli forces mowing down unarmed Palestinian protesters also train U.S. police forces that brutalize communities of color. (FPIF) — Razan al-Najjar is the latest victim in Israel’s onslaught of Palestinians to go viral. The 21-year-old nurse was shot dead by a sniper. Her only weapon? A wad of medical gauze. She’d been treating protestors who’ve been […]

Cops Broke Into Chelsea Manning’s Home With Guns Drawn to Make Sure She Was OK

(SP) — The Montgomery County Police Department in Bethesda, Maryland, conducted what they called a “wellness” or “welfare check” and broke into Chelsea Manning’s home with guns drawn. Fortunately, Manning was not home or else an encounter may have ended in death. A Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) study from December 2015 found “people with untreated mental illness are 16 […]

What’s a Life Worth in America? Four Bucks, Evidently. Oops, Scratch That. Four Cents.

(CD) — In what’s been called “the most racist jury ‘award’ in history,” a Florida jury has decided there was really no problem with cops shooting and killing Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr., 30, in 2014 because he was playing music too loudly in his own garage while drunk. (Need we add, Hill was black?) The civil verdict marked the dismal end to […]