“They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.” In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison—simply for reporting on the ongoing Indigenous protests against fossil fuel infrastructure. Schlosberg was arrested Read More…
Constitutional Rights
Obama Enters Media Wars: Why His Recent Attack On Free Speech Is So Dangerous & Radical
Control of the news media is an instrumental, key feature to any totalitarian government. In contrast, the primary reason this experiment known as the United States has lasted so long under relatively free conditions is due to the preservation of free speech (and press) via the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In case you haven’t read it Read More…
Chicago Police Department Caught Hiding Millions In Secret Asset Forfeiture Fund
A detailed report released in September 2016 by the Chicago Reader unveiled a secret civil asset forfeiture fund that amounted to nearly $50 million in seized cash which the Chicago Police Department was attempting to keep for themselves. The detailed analysis shows that CPD officials were attempting to pocket 65% of the cash and assets Read More…
Police Arrest More People For Drugs Than All Violent Crimes — COMBINED
Police in the United States arrest more people for the nonviolent, utterly harmless non-crime of cannabis possession than for murder, rape, armed robbery — in fact, all violent crime — combined. A new study by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch exposes the absurdities of the war on drugs — like the Read More…
The Imperial President’s Toolbox Of Terror: A Dictatorship Waiting To Happen
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Presidents don’t give up power. Executive orders don’t expire at the end of each presidential term. And every successive occupant of the Oval Office since George Washington, who issued the first executive order, has expanded the reach and power of the presidency. The Read More…
Voting Is A Ritual Meant To Divide
Voting is one of many rituals in the Cult of America. Derrick Broze explores how the State exploits the election and voting to divide the people along artificial lines. Related Reading: Vote Nobody: Lead Yourself 2016, Noncompliance With a Broken System, Why I’m Not Voting Interview with Derrick Broze: Agorism And How To Change The System Read More…