In April 2018, the founders of the online classifieds website Backpage.com, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, and five people who worked for them, were indicted. One of the employees has already pleaded guilty. Lacey and Larkin were accused of facilitating prostitution in violation of the Travel Act, money […]
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the jail sentence handed to Steven Donziger in his fight against Chevron and how little coverage it received in media spaces
Team Rising debates a new BOP policy that is raising serious questions about prisoners’ right to privacy.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky react to the UN ruling that determined Steven Donziger’s detention violates international law.
This guy’s case makes the idea of “respect for the law” sound like a bad joke. Krystal and Saagar interview Steven Donziger, the lawyer under house arrest who will soon be going to prison due to retaliation from Chevron after he won a historic lawsuit against them
Wednesday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressed an FBI official on the radicalization of police officers by white supremacy groups.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky discuss the newest developments in the case against Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange,
This is pretty hardcore though hardly surprising.
By Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman New York Times As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, one member of the far-right group was busy texting a real-time account of the march. The recipient was his F.B.I. handler. In […]
These Deep State sectors are the ones we will be fighting when the crackup begins. Krystal and Saagar cover the new reports showing how the CIA plotted to kidnap and murder Julian Assange, and the explain how Assange is still being targeted to this day
Krystal and Saagar respond to new reporting confirming that the FBI had at least one known informant who stormed the Capitol on January 6th
Ryan Grim and Alyssa Farah break down the latest developments on the crisis at Rikers Island, including news that a 42-year-old man has died in custody.
By Nick Pinto, The Intercept Two years of fearmongering over criminal justice reform led to a humanitarian crisis at the notorious New York City jails. Jail officials knew that state legislators were going to be touring Rikers Island on September 13. But if they made any effort to […]
We now have a number of test models for the pan-secessionist concept. Many ATS readers are younger people who likely do not recall how intense the “war on drugs” propaganda was in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time, the war on terrorism hadn’t yet begun, and the […]
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded and occupied two countries, bombed four others, helped create 21 million refugees and cause over 800,000 deaths, and spent over $6 trillion […]
When the Salafis carried out 9/11, their goals were to lure the US into a series of failed wars in Asia (like what happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan or the USA in Vietnam), provoke domestic repression in the US to turn the public against the government (a […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to released documents showing Los Angeles Police Department officers are instructed to record the social media handles of everyone they interview, including those who have not been accused of a crime or arrested.
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
Krystal and Saagar examine the ACLU’s major flip flop on the issue of vaccine mandates and what it reflects about the organization’s shift away from its principles since the Trump years began
The ACLU once represented the best elements of the American Left. No more. The only value I see in the American Left at present is as a constraint on the American Right. The opposite is also true. The best we can hope for is that the two sides […]
David Frum once again demonstrates himself to be a neocon cocksucker as if we needed more evidence. The same people that are saying that you don’t need a gun because you can just call the police…. are the same people calling to defund the police. The police and […]
Glenn Greenwald explains how the Obama administration forced Edward Snowden to take permanent residence in Russia in order to smear him.
Speak of the devil. Here it comes. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Alyssa Farah react to the FBI’s use of spy planes to surveil civilians.
By Jeremy Stahl, Vice On Wednesday, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a 32-count indictment against five men responsible for the death of Elijah McClain in 2019. The grand jury’s charge that McClain’s death was indeed the result of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide is a long overdue […]
Team Rising discusses news that the Department of Education has opened investigations into five states with bans on in-school mask mandates.
By Lenore Skenazy Reason “The next step, after tickets, it goes to child abuse.” What happens on a summer’s eve when a couple dozen kids and parents spill into the street for a neighborhood game of kickball? On a well-manicured street in Colorado Springs last week, this […]
Krystal and Saagar react to the dystopian covid lockdowns taking place in Australia and the chance these authoritarian policies come to the US
By Aaron Miguel Cantú The Intercept Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism. WITH GAS MASKS covering their faces, police officers in Mobile, Alabama, stood guard at the entrance of a highway on-ramp as tear gas wafted in […]
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid of The Spectator on the religious tyranny in the IRP and its leader’s pathetic attempts to export it beyond his borders. ~MRDA~ _____________________ An eight-year-old Hindu boy is currently in custody in the southern Punjab. He is the youngest person in Pakistan to be charged with […]
Kermit Warren is a hardworking grandfather and the head deacon of his church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. After losing his home to Hurricane Katrina, Kermit managed to rebuild his life. Thanks to a dogged work ethic, frugal lifestyle, diligent saving, and a small inheritance, […]
His story dealing with Chevron’s ruthless legal team and the damage they wreaked upon South America.
On August 11 the UK Court hears arguments from the US govt on its appeal for Assange’s extradition. Williamson talks to Julians’ family about his case.
By Patrice Taddonio PBS In 2006, in what was touted by the government as a major success in the post-9/11 “war on terror,” then-U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took to the podium at a press conference to announce the arrest of an alleged seven-man homegrown terror cell that […]
Police aren’t going to break up a battle like that because there is a chance they could actually get hurt. It always happens like that. During the LA riots in ’92, Daryl Gates’ LAPD, one of the largest and best-trained police forces in the world, simply walked off […]
By Molly Redden, Huffington Post Police are citing racial justice protests and routine 911 calls to ask for armored vehicles built for a battlefield — and the Defense Department is buying it. Last summer, as one city after another broke out in protest against the murder of George […]
Alyssa Farah discusses the rising violent crime rates across the country.
By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic After George Floyd’s murder, when sweeping criminal-justice reforms seemed more possible than ever, many Black Lives Matter activists and their allies settled on a rallying cry: “Defund the Police.” That choice was a disaster. The slogan—shorthand for cutting spending on law enforcement and […]
Team Rising shares their thoughts on Sen. Marco Rubio’s calls for the NSA director to investigate the unmasking of Tucker Carlson.
By Molly Redden, Huffington Post Police are citing racial justice protests and routine 911 calls to ask for armored vehicles built for a battlefield — and the Defense Department is buying it. Last summer, as one city after another broke out in protest against the murder of George […]
Kim Iversen details the reported expansion of the Capitol Police.
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN (CNN)Voice quavering, Rick Wershe Jr., who as a teen in 1980s Detroit was painted as a murderous drug kingpin, dabbed his eyes as he recalled one of the last conversations he had with his father, who he’d always looked up to as a […]
The comedian and podcaster talks about running for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination and his beef with Reason. “When it comes to the issues that the liberals are best on, we’re better than them on those issues,” says comedian and podcaster Dave Smith. “And when it comes to […]
A split between conservatives and pro-piggishness would be a welcome event. –Republicans and media figures who claim to be “pro-police” widely ridicule and laugh at the police officers who testified on the first day of the House panel investigation the January 6 Trump riots
By Kate Briquelet, The Daily Beast George Barlow was confronted by police and beaten after they said he resisted. His family says it’s just further proof of the brutal treatment of Indigenous residents. Last Saturday around 2 a.m., a pair of deputies in a tiny California city responded […]
By C.J. Ciaramella, Reason The First Amendment clearly protects the right to political expression, even when it’s vulgar. A New Jersey homeowner is no longer facing obscenity charges for refusing to take down signs from her property that said “Fuck Biden.” The American Civil Liberties Union of New […]
Robby Soave breaks down Big Tech’s latest attempt to counter-terrorism on their sites.
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss the NSA reportedly “unmasking” Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss the viral video of a Wisconsin police officer allegedly planting evidence and the spread of misinformation that followed.
At least the America Stasi pays better than the DDR version did. “I put my emotions behind me to do what I thought was right,” said Jackson Reffitt, whose GoFundMe hit $140,000 after he turned in his own father to the FBI. I find it hilarious that the […]
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