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Reviving the Dead With DIY Forensics: Still Life (Vice Motherboard documentary)

Danny Benavides | There is something booming in Mexico besides the drug trade and the violence associated with it: Forensic science. This is an extremely fascinating mini-documentary from Vice's "Motherboard" video-magazine which spotlights this very discipline and the crucial role that forensic science plays...

BFP Roundtable #8: Why Are Americans So Apathetic? (and What Can Be Done About it)

Boiling Frogs Post | The BFP Roundtable takes on the public apathy surrounding the illegal wars of aggression, the extrajudicial drone assassinations, the illegal warrantless wiretapping, and other outrages of our era. Why is the public so passive in the face of such abuses? And what can be done about it?

Danny Benavides on PPR: Cartel Wars and the Autodefensa Movement

Porkins Policy Radio #23 | Pearse Redmond interviews TOR Contributing Editor Danny Benavides on Porkins Policy Radio, May 28, 2014. Topics: Mexican drug war, the autodefensa movement in Michoacan, history of La Familia and the Knights Templar Cartel, violence in Tamaulipas, and EPN's "million dollar selfie" with Kevin Spacey.