Activist Art Against Drone Killing Redesigns The Landscape in Pakistan
Dees Illustration By Joe Wright The continuing impact of unmanned drones across the target countries of the U.S. has inspired many short videos that attempt…
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APD Shootings Protest Turns Violent; Police Unload Tear Gas and Make Arrests
By Joe Wright Albuquerque citizens seem to have had enough of their increasingly violent police department and are beginning to take to the streets. The…
The Militarized U.S. Police, by the Numbers (w/Infographic)
Dees Illustration By Joe Wright Many of us know retired police officers who remember a world where it was considered a failure to draw a…
EPA Lifts Ban, BP Wins $40 Billion in New Contracts
image source By Joe Wright The financial penalties levied against BP for the Gulf oil disaster began as a landmark $4.5 billion settlement, topping the…
Kids For Cash Scheme Exposes Horrors of For-Profit Prisons: Documentary
http://www.kidsforcashthemovie.com By Joe Wright The fact that the United States leads the world in prison population is becoming common knowledge. Somewhat lesser known is the…
Is Solitary Confinement About to be Outlawed in the U.S.?
image source By Joe Wright Human rights activists have for decades been urging the U.S. government to prohibit the use of solitary confinement as a…
New Snowden Docs Confirm NSA’s Role in Drone Killings
image source By Joe Wright While the world is rightly concerned about the wholesale dragnet spying of citizens across the planet, another program has emerged…
Woman On No-Fly List For 7 Years Becomes First To Successfully Challenge U.S. Gov’t
Rahinah Ibrahim – image source By Joe Wright In a precedent–setting case, Rahinah Ibrahim has become the first person to successfully challenge the U.S. government’s…
In Defense of Kelly Thomas: Protesters Arrested After Police Acquittal in Torture-Killing
image source credit: Ray White By Joe Wright The prolonged beating death (37 minutes) of a homeless and mentally ill Kelly Thomas was an atrocity…
The Least Popular Congress of All Time is Also the Wealthiest
Meanwhile on Main Street, USA Dees Illustration By Joe Wright As a further sign of the massive disconnect that exists between the political leadership (sic)…
The U.S. Prison Population – By The Numbers (w/Infographic)
By Joe Wright It has been well documented that despite the platitudes suggesting that the United States is the beacon of freedom, it is actually…
Big Ag Mega Farm Threatens Pristine South Carolina River
The Edisto River, South Carolina image source By Joe Wright Even though climate change has taken center stage in the nation’s environmental debate, the well-documented…
Non-Lethal Weapons Maker Under Fire For Deadly Results
Dees Illustration By Joe Wright In May of 2012 I wrote an article that began as follows: Two new studies reveal that supposedly non-lethal Tasers…
Powerful Protests Against Chevron and Fracking in Romania
By Joe Wright It is often easy to forget that the battles we face against corporate invasion on American soil are playing out across the…