Right on schedule. Attacking 2nd Amendment rights and strengthening federal law enforcement at the same time. By Brittany Shepherd National Politics Reporter WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday announced his administration’s plan to combat rising rates of violent crime that plague major cities across the United States by […]
As I have said, all dissent is being targeted.
I saw this coming after Marzieh Hashemi’s arrest about a year and a half ago, and I started distancing myself from them because I figured a wave of repression was coming. After the riots last year, it seemed the Bidenists and neocons were attempting to replace Trump with […]
The elites know sooner or later the peasants are going to get fed up and so are becoming increasingly authoritarian.
As the saying goes, “Let the doorknob hit you where Mother Nature split you.” Former Detroit police chief James Craig is ‘not surprised’ that police are resigning en masse in Portland. He also says the crime surge in Chicago is due to a failed criminal justice system.
This is one of the best discussions of criminal justice in the USA I’ve seen in a while. By Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner Prison Policy Initiative Can it really be true that most people in jail are being held before trial? And how much of mass incarceration […]
By Billy Binion, Reason The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids railed against cops for enforcing the same kind of anti-vaping rule they help pass. “We are horrified and outraged by the incident of police violence in Ocean City, MD, this weekend,” reads a statement from an advocacy group, drafted […]
Are cops hated by the public? That’s what the police want you to think, but the truth is actually very different. Police are actually still viewed very favorably, even among African-Americans. This interview previously aired on Peacock on June 12, 2021. Sam Seder discusses police lying with Stuart […]
Colin Rogero explains the significance of Lina Khan’s FTC nomination.
Here it comes. Colin Rogero and Emily Jashinsky react to the Biden Administration’s national strategy to combat domestic extremism.
They are following the same model as the Chinese government.
By Tina Moore and Gabrielle Fonrouge New York Post A former NYPD cop was repeatedly raped, sodomized and mentally tormented by a cadre of officers over the course of five years but when her case was brought to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, they declined to prosecute, an […]
This doesn’t really sound like defunding the police. By Jarrett Renshaw, Reuters June 15 (Reuters) – Five months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Biden administration on Tuesday will unveil steps for federal and local officials and social media companies to battle national security threats posed […]
When you create a meme that inadvertently makes the point that “CRTs,” “SJWs,” and similar others are not so much “Marxists” as types of sectarian neo-Protestants. It’s also not surprising that black intellectuals like Derrick Bell, Kimberly Crenshaw, etc. would develop a theoretical framework like this given the […]
Colin Rogero and Emily Miller share their thoughts on reports that the Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for information in February 2018 about an account that belonged to Don McGahn.
BY MAJOR NEILL FRANKLIN (RET.) t this point, most people who have studied this issue (including Mr. Sabet) agree that the prohibition of marijuana has been a catastrophe. Police make hundreds of thousands of marijuana arrests each year—663,000 in 2018 alone—wasting time that could be spent solving and preventing […]
Rep. Darrell Issa pressed FBI Director Chris Wray on spying on American citizens.
By Billy Binion, Reason Onree Norris was 78 years old when a swarm of police officers raided his Georgia home without warning in 2018, bombarding the place with two flash-bang grenades, careening through the door with a battering ram, and placing Norris under arrest. He was later released […]
By Brian Doherty, Reason Arkansas cops love this insane practice they call “precision immobilization technique”—slamming into moving vehicles, sometimes over simple traffic stops. Nicole Harper, pregnant with her daughter, was driving her SUV home on a Arkansas freeway in July 2020 when Arkansas State trooper Rodney Dunn decided […]
Watch for the Democrats (currently led by arch police statists Biden and Harris) to move toward stronger “law and order” rhetoric in the future. There will be three purposes for doing so: pacifying a general public concerned about rising crime rates, winning over swing voters from the right, […]
Private prisons are only about 7% of the US prison industry. Most prisons are government-run prisons. The problem I have with most leftist critiques of the US prison system is that they tend to predictably blame everything on capitalist profiteering and/or racism. While those are obviously part of […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss reports that the Justice Department tried to seize the emails of four New York Times reporters and forced a gag order on the paper’s executives.
Notice that it is primarily the governments of red states and corporations that represent the right-wing of the ruling class (e.g. fossil fuels) that are behind this. This is the right’s counteroffensive to the growing hegemony of “woke capitalism.” Fragmentation within the capitalist class itself is growing, although […]
By Jane Wakefield, BBC A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC has been told. A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province. A human […]
By Sam Levin, The Guardian Los Angeles sheriff deputies frequently harass the families of people they have killed, including taunting them at vigils, parking outside their homes and following them and pulling them over for no reason, according to a new report from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) […]
Team Rising discusses the hypocrisy of Dems, who called for defunding of the police, voting for a spending bill for more Capitol security.
This is what is going to happen. There will be a pullback on policing in poor and minority neighborhoods and communities (obviously, there is not going to be less policing in suburbs and wealthy areas). Crime rates will start to spiral as they did in the 70s and […]
A Jewish woman questions whether having the state enact “Where are your papers?” laws in the name of health and hygiene is a good idea. Gets called a reactionary by enlightened progressives.
The USA: a country where doing a fraction of what a reasonable person would consider baseline standards gets called “sweeping reform.”
By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security plans to ramp up social media tracking as part of an enhanced focus on domestic violent extremism. While the move is a response to weaknesses exposed by the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, it’s raising concerns […]
Critics of anarchism often argue, “But without the state we would have corporate feudalism!” apparently not recognizing that we already have corporate feudalism. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his […]
Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses how the media’s coverage of intelligence has changed in the past decade.
Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson discuss the trial of Steven Donziger.
By Liz George, American Military News The Supreme Court ruled Monday that warrantless gun confiscation from Americans’ homes is unconstitutional, voting unanimously on the side of a Rhode Island man whose firearms were taken by law enforcement without a warrant after his wife expressed concerns that he might […]
By George Liebman, The American Conservative Recent events might lead the uninitiated to believe that, on the crime front, America’s large cities are getting better and better. Several of the new breed of city prosecutors have announced with pride that the “war on drugs is over” in cities […]
By Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Emily Weisburst, Morgan C. Williams Jr., Niskanen Center As police shootings remain in the public eye and the Black Lives Matter movement demands change, vocal debate about “defunding” the police can obscure a critical point: Most Americans, Black and white, are clear that […]
By Peter T. Quinones “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair How many people do you think actually serve humanity on their jobs? Do you think the grocery store worker realizes the service […]
By Billy Binion, Reason Hernan Palma is suing after he says he was punched in the face and his family restrained by cops during a botched no-knock drug raid. Officers with Maryland’s Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) allegedly executed an illegal no-knock raid against the wrong residence, assaulting […]
As I have recently said, look for an eventual shift away from “defund the police” rhetoric (which is already fading) toward a renewed emphasis on “law and order” in response to rising crime rates, and with a move toward the creation of a national police force, which will […]
One thing that we learned from the anti-police riots last year is that the state/ruling class/power elite generally prefers to co-opt and absorb protest movements rather than engaging in large-scale direct repression. Remember that corporations and banks were adopting BLM symbolism as their own, and conducting seminars on […]
From Sean Gabb. I think Sean may be understating it a bit. In the US, even the military, homeland security, and intelligence agencies are involved. We now have CIA propaganda talking about intersectionality. Meanwhile, anti-terrorism laws and state surveillance are being strengthened.
Freedom of Speech in England: A Proposal for Its Recovery Sean Gabb (9th May 2021) It is now an official fact that England is a country where freedom of speech is in danger. According to the Secretary of State for Education, Despite the development and publication of [non-binding […]
By James Bovard, The American Conservative The Biden administration may soon recruit an army of private snoops to conduct surveillance that would be illegal if done by federal agents. As part of its war on extremism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may exploit a “legal work-around” to […]
08:45 Public sentiment and punitive policy on crime 18:02 Glenn and Adaner on crime in America vs. Northern Europe 20:58 Democracy’s effect on criminal justice policy 24:29 Does the “New Jim Crow” cause higher incarceration? 31:33 Glenn puts on the hat of a Trump voter on crime and […]
Adaner Usmani, assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University, joins us to discuss the current wave of violent crime in the US, the law-and-order backlashes of prior decades, and the origins of mass incarceration. The Jacobin Show airs every Wednesday at 6 PM ET and […]
On The Jacobin Show, Adaner Usmani explains the economic origins of mass incarceration and discusses solutions for rolling back the police state today.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on an effort that urges the Biden administration to drop a Trump-era effort to prosecute WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.
The DOJ, the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon. The totalitarian humanist revolution is complete. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the Biden administration’s domestic violence extremism review.
From 2019. It appears that the number of prisoners has leveled off and even declined slightlyly over the past decade even as population size has increased. My guess is that the overlords of the system have decided that two million prisoners is the optimal amount needed to keep […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that the Biden admin is considering a partnership with private firms to track extremist chatter.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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