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Archives: Crime
US “War on Drugs” ruined Mexico even worse than it did Afghanistan
By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) - They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power. They have penetrated the…
Iraqi Flees ISIL to Dallas, Shot Dead while taking Picture of First Snowfall
By RFE/RL | - Police in Dallas have released surveillance footage on March 7 of four suspects in the shooting and killing of an Iraqi man. Police are not ruling out that…
Surprise: Noted Climate Change Denialist Secretly Took Oil Co. Payouts
By Nadia Prupis | (Commondreams.org) A prominent climate change denier and researcher quietly took more than $1.2 million in payouts from the energy industry, including the Koch brothers and other oil lobbyists,…
NSA making all vulnerable online with Equation Viruses on your Computer
TheLipTV | - "Malware in hard drive firmware is the latest, and most sophisticated spying tool the NSA is suspected of using, with Kaspersky Labs of Russia suggesting that the "Equation Group"…
Artificial Billionaires: Regimes’ Crony Capitalism Stifling Middle East
World Bank Across the Middle East and North Africa, countries are being forced to face up to a harsh reality—that, left as they are now, their economies won’t create anything like enough…
Employers’ theft from Worker Wages 3 times more than all other Theft in US
The Young Turks "As the economy slowly recovers, it’s become increasingly clear that it’s not just unemployed Americans who need help from the government. It’s those that are employed as well. "That’s…
US, Iraq have same child homicide rate – UNICEF
RT America: "America leads all Western nations in the number of child homicide victims, according to a new report from UNICEF. In 2012, there were four adolescent homicides per 100,000 people in…
6 Things To Know If Police Stop You In The US
AJ+ "If a police officer were to stop you on the street in the U.S. and start questioning you, what would you do? Check out our quick list of six things you…
Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It
State Department official documented in memo that mercenary threatened him just weeks before Nisour Square massacre By Jon Queally As the trial continues against Blackwater mercenaries accused of a bloody massacre that…
Blair-Bush & Iraq: It’s not just the quagmire but the Lawbreaking & Deception
By Juan Cole Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is complaining that he is unfairly blamed for causing the current mess in Iraq and that if Saddam had still been in power…
Vegas ‘Revolution’ Shooters inspired by Tea Party Law allowing Shooting of Police
Vegas cop killers 'had pro-gun militia links' (via AFP) A gun-toting couple possibly linked to anti-government militias killed two US cops execution-style and left a swastika on the bodies, in America's latest…
Top 3 White Terrorist Attacks in America this Week
By Juan Cole Our capitalist class may be becoming an absolute danger to ordinary Americans. By promoting a doctrine of absolute right to gun ownership (which rather helps gun manufacturers) and at…
That time when White Terrorists Ambushed Nevada Police after Fox Supported Bundy Gunmen Threatening Law Enforcement
They shouted, "This is a revolution!" ABC News: "Deadly Shooting Spree in Las Vegas" Related posts: Fox News asks Rand Paul if Reid is right to “call Americans” “Domestic Terrorists” and: "Top…
Not Snowden but *Keith Alexander*: Hero or Traitor (the debate we should be having)
By Juan Cole NBC News's Brian Williams interviewed Edward Snowden in Moscow on Wednesday night. But then Mr. Williams followed it up with a panel discussion of whether Snowden is a hero…
Shooting victim’s father rips ‘rudderless idiots’ in Congress: ‘I can’t tell you how angry I am’
Shooting victim’s father rips ‘rudderless idiots’ in Congress: ‘I can’t tell you how angry I am’ (via Raw Story ) With a California town grieving the deaths of six college students killed…
30 Murders by Firearm in England 2012 (equiv. 164), vs. 8,855 in US
By Juan Cole The mentally imbalanced individual who hunted down UC Santa Barbara students and knifed three and shot 6 of them to death, wounding with gunfire 7 more, on Saturday, used…
US Military Report: War effort in Afghanistan was bedeviled by Corruption, made it Worse
The US military describes its biggest mistakes in Afghanistan (via GlobalPost) Enlarge Air Force aerial porters load a shipping container onto a C-130 Hercules cargo plane at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost…
The Death Penalty in the United States (Infographic, plus John Oliver)
Death Penalty in the USA The Death Penalty in the USA. Produced from ArrestRecords.com ------ Related video: "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Death Penalty"