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Jersey City Man Shot in the Face and Blinded by Police Faces 30 Years in Prison
The story of 18-year-old Kwadir Felton, shot in the face and blinded by Police Sergeant Thomas McVicar, then convicted of aggravated assault of an officer, repeats a too-familiar pattern.
They Are Watching You: The National Security State and the US-Mexican Border
With massive growth and robust financing, with ever increasing budgets and resources, US Customs and Border Protection is reshaping the country - and the world.
Radical Philosophy and the Free Alabama Movement
The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.
Defending Kickbacks
An upcoming SEC decision has the brokerage industry up in arms.
BP Gets an Anniversary Gift From the Obama Administration
The EPA ruled that BP could start bidding on lucrative new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
Knowledge Is Crime in Washington: Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination and Perjury Are Not
Tom Engelhardt: In Washington today, knowledge is the only crime. That's a political reality of the twenty-first century.
Bending Aid Toward Business
How business drives US foreign policy, and what to do about it.
Tech Companies Adopt Astroturf to Get Their (Wicked) Way
Tech corporations out to increase their already immense profits have begun funding organizations professedly aiming to bring positive change for the masses. However, these groups largely serve the interests …
Thank You, NSA.
Political corruption will destroy the world. We have the means to eradicate it using today's technology. All that is lacking is the political will, as the people who could …
An Indictment of the Invisible Hand
Economist Thomas Piketty's new book has stunned both the economic profession and most political observers. But the economic mainstream is not truly dealing with its most serious implications.