Rochester, NY — A video uploaded to Facebook last week is causing an uproar as it shows multiple Rochester police officers assault and pepper spray innocent bystanders for exercising their first amendment rights. As the video begins, a man inside his car is filming two officers on top of an apparent suspect. Becoming agitated with Read More…
Police State
Inspector General Says FBI Agents Can Pose As Journalists During Investigations
It can be troublesome to acknowledge the fact that popular mainstream media outlets, and perhaps in some cases, popular alternative media outlets, are subject to large amounts of infiltration by intelligence agencies, but it’s true. This isn’t a matter of conjecture. It’s happened before with the CIA’s “Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream media, Read More…
US To “Compensate” Family Of Italian Drone Victim — Will Non-Western Victims See Same?
The Obama administration is reportedly offering a “condolence payment” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan last year, renewing questions about the lack of accountability for the U.S. drone program. According to the Guardian on Friday, the $1.32 million “is the first Read More…
Has VICE Become One Of The New Choices For State Propaganda?
Anyone who has studied the rise of the counter-culture in the 1960’s and beyond, will soon realize that most of it was not the result of some spontaneous revolution amongst a politically frustrated youth, but instead was a grand intelligence operation designed to control the growing frustrations amongst society. While there was definitely mounting pressure Read More…
NYPD Steals $18,000 from Man Because He Was Carrying a Banned Pocket Knife
In the past five years, the New York Police Department has spent $347,000 on false arrest lawsuit settlements. According to the Village Voice, these costs stem from the city’s “gravity knife statute.” Passed in 1958, the law banned New York residents from carrying knives fitted with blades that fall out of the handle as the user points Read More…
First ‘Napalm Girl’, Now Rosa Parks — Facebook Censors Iconic Civil Rights Photo
Fresh off the recent controversy surrounding its censoring of the iconic Vietnam-era “Napalm Girl” photo, Facebook finds itself in the midst of another censorship controversy surrounding yet another iconic photograph — this time of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The historic picture of Rosa Parks being booked into jail in 1955, after being arrested for her Read More…