Still Crazy After All These Years: Psychiatric Lock-Down Returns to the US
By Janet Phelan Without a lot of fanfare or explanation, new psychiatric hospitals are being built in droves across the United States. Facilities are springing…
By Janet Phelan Without a lot of fanfare or explanation, new psychiatric hospitals are being built in droves across the United States. Facilities are springing…
By Janet Phelan “Basic economics would tell us that it is much cheaper to purchase the votes of 5 or 6 justices every six years…
By Justin Gardner In a state where medical and recreational cannabis is still completely prohibited, a jury found Bridget Kirouac not guilty of cultivating cannabis plants….
By Catherine J. Frompovich If anyone ought to know the ins and outs of prosecutorial law, one would think it would be a District Attorney…
By Mark Nestmann, The Nestmann Group Do you own a dog? You could face six months in federal prison if you walk it on federal…
By Derrick Broze An appeal from the man accused of plotting to blow up a Christmas tree in downtown Portland, Oregon accuses the FBI of…
By Vic Bishop Simply and aptly named, DoNotPay, the ingenious business of a 19-year-old Londoner has already saved citizens of the UK an estimated £2.9…
By Janet Phelan In a recent US government human rights report, the US voiced sharp criticism of China’s treatment of human rights lawyers and dissidents….
By Derrick Broze The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals of California has ruled that the father of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man shot and killed…
By Jake Anderson As if the world wasn’t anxious enough about automation and artificial intelligence fleecing jobs from the working class, now even lawyers might…
By Matt Agorist The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that police officers can lie to suspects in regards to a traffic stop…
By Janet Phelan In an article in the New Republic in December, 1998, former UNSCOM leader Scott Ritter decried Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons experiments…
By Katherine Hine Book Review: GUARDIANSHIP: How Judges and Lawyers Steal Your Money M. Larsen, Ed., 2016; Pub: Janet Pipes; ISBN: 9780692586211. Price: $13.38. Available…
By John Vibes According to recent reports, people who have been charged with petty crimes have been added to the US government’s “terror watchlist” without…