Officer Friendly — the iconic image of the neighborhood cop who smilingly greets residents as he protects them from ‘bad guys’ — now exists, for the large part, only in the American collective memory, having been replaced some fifteen years ago by an authoritarian, militarized soldier. And though that collective memory is powerful enough many Read More…
Social Change
Officer Faces Discipline for Calling for Peace and Urging Black Men to be Cautious Around Cops
Amid highly strained relations between police and civilians around the country, a Cincinnati Police officer has come under fire — and may face disciplinary action — for posts online attempting honest conversation about racism inside the nation’s law enforcement departments. Officer Freddie Vincent wrote on social media, among other things, that white police officers are, Read More…
Blue Lives Matter: Police Exceptionalism Leading America Toward Second Civil War
Lurched back and forth in the ever-quickening spiral of an American empire circling the drain, we — as a people — have chosen battle lines on nearly every issue from politics to foreign policy, domestic surveillance to policing. Thrust back into national focus, the last issue — policing in the U.S. — might even surpass Read More…
Engineered Chaos And Fear: The New Norm In America As Many Assume The “Reality” Of Staged Events
There is a new norm in America that is one of chaos, race wars and mass shootings that are supposedly all “real” … unless of course you can provide a mountain of evidence to debunk the official mainstream media narrative, police announcements or whatever Intelligence “sources” are “saying.” This new norm is even being contributed Read More…
What Everyone is Missing About Melania Trump’s Plagiarized Speech
Melania Trump’s RNC speech, which was partially plagiarized from a Michelle Obama speech, has become such a popular subject that #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes has turned into a trending topic on Facebook and Twitter. As you can see in the video below, several segments of Melania Trump’s speech were lifted directly from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech, but there’s one detail Read More…
Medical Marijuana Reduces Suicide in States With Legal Access
A STUDY SUGGESTS THAT LEGALIZING MEDICAL MARIJUANA LOWERS SUICIDE RATES BY ALMOST FIVE PERCENT. The study conducted by The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, the same firm that recently found that legalizing medical marijuana was associated with fewer deaths on the highways, is titled “High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide,” reports Christopher Shea Read More…






