How the Govt Used the NY Bombing to Convert Millions of Citizens into Spies — Literally Overnight
By Claire Bernish Yet again, putative acts of terror — bombs detonated and discovered in New York and New Jersey, and a mass stabbing in…
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Corporate Media Silent as States Declare Emergency In Aftermath Massive Pipeline Rupture
By Claire Bernish Since an Alabama mine worker first alerted Colonial Pipeline officials to a massive rupture, more than a quarter million gallons of refined…
Forget “Stop and Frisk” — Cops Across US Collecting DNA of Innocent People in “Stop and Swabs”
By Claire Bernish Without laws to guide them, police around the country have begun collecting people’s DNA — even when no crime has been committed…
Media Silent as Company Behind Dakota Access Pipeline Steals More Land in Texas for a Different Project
By Claire Bernish Energy Transfer Partners, the company responsible for construction of the hotly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline, has another controversial pipeline project with the…
Shadowy “Mercenary” Firm, Who Employed Orlando Shooter, Behind Security at Dakota Pipeline
By Claire Bernish An alarming report says the secretive global security firm G4S — which many equate to private mercenaries for hire — admitted to…
It’s Time to Imagine a Post-Police World … Here’s Why Abolishing the Police is Not a Crazy Idea
Op-Ed by Claire Bernish Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing…
Secret Cameras Have Been Warrantlessly Recording an Entire City’s Every Move from Above
By Claire Bernish Baltimore Police didn’t bother to inform the public (or anyone, for that matter) when they implemented a privately-funded mass surveillance program in…
State Begins Random Drug Testing of Middle School Children — With Punishment
By Claire Bernish Random drug-testing of middle-schoolers — with penalties — has become a reality for a school district in New Jersey that already does…
State Forcing Flood Victims to Obtain Permits Before Fixing their Homes
By Claire Bernish Residents in South Bend, Indiana, dealing with several feet of flooding following a record-decimating rainfall now also have to deal with costly…
Justice Dept Announces it Will End Use of For-Profit Prisons … Prison Stocks Plummet
By Claire Bernish In a stunning turn of events, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it will no longer use private prisons to incarcerate…
America’s Biggest Ally Now Has Special “Thought Police” Unit to Track Down Online Trolls
By Claire Bernish Thought police now patrol social media platforms and online forums to quash putatively ‘abusive’ vitriol with the help of feckless civilians urged…
Disturbing Study Links Body Cams to INCREASE in Fatal Police Shootings
By Claire Bernish Police body-worn cameras have taken center stage in the effort to promote accountability for controversial uses of lethal and nonlethal force —…
Poll Shows Millennials Waking Up to 2-Party Paradigm — Scoff at Clinton AND Trump
By Claire Bernish America’s Millennials are fed up with the duopoly establishment’s politics-as-usual narrative — in fact, just 28 percent of the 18-30 set would…
DEA Caught Spying on Innocent Travelers to Steal Hundreds of Millions — And It’s 100% “Legal”
By Claire Bernish An intensely troubling report proves the DEA pilfers millions in cash from travelers with little, if any, evidence they committed even minor…