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Category Archives: Law and Order

The Charlie Hebdo Attack: Where was the NSA?

January 13, 2015 1st Amendment 4th Amendment CIA Civil Rights Criminal Justice Domestic Surveillance International Relations National Security NSA Terrorism 1 Comment

Paris Terrorist Attack Reveals Vulnerabilities in the USA

January 7, 2015 Criminal Justice extremism Gun Control Islam Religion in Politics Terrorism 7 Comments

2014: The Year We Wish Could Be Redone

January 2, 2015 2014 Election Bush Civil Rights Criminal Justice Defense Policy Discrimination Ebola Health Policy ISIS Law and Order Media Net Neutrality Partisan Fighting Police Brutality Terrorism Torture Voting 6 Comments

NYPD Slows Down Arrests in Protest, Fails to Recognize Irony

December 31, 2014 Criminal Justice Current Events Drug War Law and Order Police 5 Comments

NYPD Officers Assassinated by New Yorker in Revenge for Eric Garner’s Murder

December 22, 2014 Criminal Justice Law and Order Police Police Brutality 1 Comment

Senate Torture Report Gives Horrifying View into the American Torture Regime

December 12, 2014 CIA Civil Rights Defense Policy International Relations Terrorism Torture War Crimes 2 Comments

No Justice for NYPD Chokehold Victim Eric Garner

December 4, 2014 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Racism 2 Comments

Justice System Inequalities Perfectly Illustrated in the Michael Brown Shooting

December 2, 2014 Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality 44 Comments

Ferguson Prosecutor Throws Grand Jury Case, Lets Michael Brown’s Killer Walk

November 25, 2014 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Law and Order Police Police Brutality Racism 37 Comments

Maher and Harris Kick the Politically Correct Hornet’s Nest in Debate over Islam

November 3, 2014 Bill Maher extremism gay rights gender equality Media Racism Religion in Politics Terrorism 6 Comments

ISIS, Dark Money, and Corrupt Politics

October 22, 2014 Campaigns Corruption Dark Money ISIS Money in Politics National Security Terrorism Wolf-PAC Leave a comment

Americans Must Ignore the Fear Machine

October 13, 2014 Corporate Greed Corruption extremism Health Policy ISIS Media Military War 5 Comments

Eric Holder Resigns (Kind of): What will His Legacy be?

September 29, 2014 Criminal Justice Discrimination DOJ Domestic Surveillance Drones Drug War Obama Police Voting Rights 2 Comments

Obama Administration Charges Towards Disaster in its Response to Islamic State Terrorism

September 12, 2014 Iraq ISIS Military Obama Syria Terrorism War 2 Comments

American Police are Currently Engaging in Legal Multi-Million Dollar Highway Robbery with their “Civil Asset Forfeiture” Programs

September 10, 2014 Criminal Justice Legal Injustice Police Police State 2 Comments

Understanding Privilege in America Today

September 8, 2014 Criminal Justice Discrimination gender equality Inequality Law and Order pay gap privilege Racism 3 Comments

Infographic: Private Prison Injustice

September 4, 2014 Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Criminal Justice Discrimination Legal Injustice Private Prisons Privatization 2 Comments

ISIS Takes Page Out of the CIA’s Interrogation Manual, Validates Anti-Torture Activists’ Concerns

September 3, 2014 Bush Foreign Policy Iraq ISIS Terrorism Torture War War Crimes Waterboarding Leave a comment

Studies: Legalizing Marijuana Reduces Overdoses and Domestic Violence, Increases Tax Revenue

August 29, 2014 Criminal Justice Drug War Marijuana Regulation Tax Policy 5 Comments

A Preliminary Look at the Michael Brown Shooting

August 21, 2014 Criminal Justice Inequality Law and Order Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 10 Comments

From Fallujah to Ferguson: the Dangerous Militarization of American Policing

August 18, 2014 1st Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 19 Comments

Red America vs. Blue America: State Maps Illustrate the Difference

August 15, 2014 Conservative Health Policy Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive 41 Comments

Police Shoot Black Man with Toy Gun, Give Perfect Example of White Privilege in Regard to the 2nd Amendment

August 11, 2014 2nd Amendment Criminal Justice extremism Gun Control Inequality nra Police Brutality Racism 9 Comments

Anatomy of and Anti-Israel Media Hatchet Job

August 4, 2014 Foreign Policy Hamas Israel Media Terrorism War 4 Comments

The Purge Anarchy: Social Commentary on the NRA, Austerity and Class Warfare

July 24, 2014 2nd Amendment Class Warfare Criminal Justice extremism guns Inequality Legal Injustice Media nra Racism 12 Comments

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