civil rights

Dangerous Precedent: NZ court orders baby removed from “anti-vax” parents

Kit Knightly A court in New Zealand has awarded temporary custody of a baby to medical professionals, after the parents insisted their child be given only unvaccinated blood transfusions during surgery. CNN reports: A critically-ill six-month-old baby will be placed under the temporary guardianship of New Zealand’s High Court after his parents refused to allow …

Make Way for the Killer Robots: The Government Is Expanding Its Power to Kill

John & Nisha Whitehead The purpose of a good government is to protect the lives and liberties of its people. Unfortunately, we have gone so far in the opposite direction from the ideals of a good government that it’s hard to see how this trainwreck can be redeemed. It gets worse by the day. For instance, despite …

“Mood of Militancy” Movies Star at Black August Film Festival in Pasadena

What is Black August and the FilmFest Named After It? The inaugural Black August Film Festival, zooming in on what Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the Earth” and their opposition to systemic racism, took place in Pasadena, California, August 13-14. Unlike other Black-themed filmfests that may screen socially conscious indies alongside the typical mindless […]

The FBI’s Gestapo Tactics are the Hallmarks of an Authoritarian Regime

John & Nisha Whitehead “We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.” Harry Truman With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany’s playbook: Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Censorship. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. Indefinite detention. These are not …

How a Poor “Negro” Couple Bucked the KKK and Sowed the Seeds of East-West Diplomacy

“They say that on a quiet night if you listen hard enough and long enough you can hear the angry black people tugging fiercely at their chains all over America.” -- From “Listen, Brother!” by Robert F. Williams
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