January 2015


Did you know that in two states not paying your student loans could mean your driver’s license can be revoked? (more…)

The Intercept

The known facts from this latest case seem to fit well within a now-familiar FBI pattern whereby the agency does not disrupt planned domestic terror attacks but rather creates them, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own plots. (more…)

Commondreams

The disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color in the United States, particularly of black men, is no accident, finds a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. (more…)

ACLU

The CIA’s chief interrogator called it “the closest thing he has seen to a dungeon.”

At the agency’s COBALT detention site in Afghanistan – also known as the “Salt Pit” – detainees were kept in total darkness, shackled to the floors or walls of their cells, and given buckets to dispose of their own waste. (more…)

Bill Quigley  ICH

In 1990, twenty percent of all children in the US lived in poverty. What percent of th children in the US live in poverty today?  (more…)

Jonathan Turley Washington Post

The greatest threat to liberty in France has come not from the terrorists who committed such horrific acts this past week but from the French themselves, who have been leading the Western world in a crackdown on free speech. (more…)

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