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(ANTIMEDIA) United States — We have become a culture on edge, fearful of when and where the next tragedy might be perpetrated by some opaque or obscure enemy ‘other’ seeking to inflict maximum harm on innocent lives.
But this abstract, pervasive, and fearanoid trepidation hasn’t been pulled from the blue — in fact, it amounts to little more than governmental propaganda meant to divide the populace and distract from the desire to reform pervasive, systemic issues the State might otherwise solve.

(TFC Op-Ed) Washington, DC – The airwaves are full of pundits screaming about violence against police officers. These are the same pundits that disregarded the warnings of experts in the field of insurgency when the Ferguson riots broke out and chose to dismiss the rioters as “thugs.” They continued to cheerlead for more police militarization even after the first officers were shot in targeted killings.

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) Baton Rouge, LA — “Why do you always have to make it about race?”
“Because it IS about race.”
This is a common, growing conversation in the United States.

(ANTIMEDIA) Less than a day after the chaotic murder of five police officers in Dallas Thursday evening — which followed two disturbing killings at the hands of law enforcement this week — two more police officers have been shot and hospitalized.

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) United States — What if people, sickened by tyrannical control, threw off the shackles of bloated governance in favor of leading themselves? What if the erosion of fundamental freedoms — guaranteed not by a document, but by being human — were actually intolerable as so much grumbling intimated?

(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — Holly Harris may wear cowboy boots to work, but the Kentucky mom and Executive Director for the US Justice Action Network (USJAN) is far from your average southerner.

(ANTIMEDIA) Los Angeles, CA — “If there were ever a moment where one could drop the mic and walk away it was this one, “ Ebony magazine wrote.

(ANTIMEDIA) Cannabis prohibitionists have long cautioned that legalizing the plant will inevitably lead to increased use among teens, couching their restrictive beliefs in concern for the youth.

(COMMONDREAMS) The Mexican government’s deadly crackdown on a teacher’s union protest has rattled the nation in recent days, as 200,000 doctors on Wednesday joined the ongoing national strike against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s neoliberal reforms.

(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — A British police officer who wore a hat with a cannabis logo and the words, “I love weed,” while on duty has been found guilty of gross misconduct. PC Simon Ryan from North Yorkshire police also defaced a suspect’s CV — an in-depth resume — with the words “paedo” and “kiddie fiddler” during a child abuse inquiry.