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Tag Archives: Police Militarization
How Evil Wins: The Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Deep State, education, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Inequality, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Department of Homeland Security, Dystopia, Education, evil, fascism, Freedom, Inequality, Legal System, Mass Incarceration, military-industrial complex, NDAA, Police Militarization, police state, Prison, School, society, surveillance state, SWAT, tsa, tyranny, US government, US Politics
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Cycle of Insurgency: How the US military is expected to put down an insurrection
By Justin King Source: The Fifth Column One of the overriding questions when discussing an insurgency within the United States has always been the debate over how the military would respond. Those who hope for the military to break ranks … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Law, Militarization, police state, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Afghanistan, Economic Collapse, economic crisis, Full Spectrum Operations, Insurgencies, iraq, Militias, Police Militarization, police state, resistance
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Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State
By Henry Giroux Source: Counterpunch Americans live in an age, to rephrase, W.E.B. Dubois, in which violence has become the problem of the twenty-first century. As brutalism comes to shape every public encounter, democratic values and the ethical imagination wither … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, education, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged civil liberties, Education reform, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Pedagogy, Police Militarization, police state, Police Violence, Prison-Industrial Complex, Prisons, Privitization, racism, School to Prison Pipeline, schools, Violence
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How Do You Prepare a Child for Life in the American Police State?
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, Corruption, culture, Militarization, police state, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Children, civil liberties, Freedom, Lockdowns, Mass Shooters, Parenting, police, Police Militarization, Prisons, schools, SWAT Teams, Zero Tolerance
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Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance: Rejecting the Framework of the Oppressor
To hear President Obama and Baltimore mayor Rawlings tell it, politeness, nonviolence and respect for law and property are the fundamental obligations of those confronting the brazen and lawless violence of police in Baltimore and beyond. This is a truly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, police state, Racism, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Colonialism, imperialism, Oppression, Police Militarization, Police Violence, racism, resistance
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Chicago’s Abu Ghraib
By Andre Damon Source: WSWS.org In April 2004, the world was shocked and horrified by the release of photographs of sadistic torture carried out by US military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Detainees at the prison, most … Continue reading
The Dire State of Our Nation (What You Won’t Hear from the Politicians)
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute No matter what the politicians might say about how great America is, the fact is that the nation seems to be imploding. Consider the following facts: Our government is massively in debt. … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, culture, Economics, education, Empire, Geopolitics, police state, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged civil liberties, Corporate Oligarchy, Education, Government debt, John W. Whitehead, Police Corruption, Police Militarization, police state, pollution, Prisons, State of the Union address, surveillance state, The Rutherford Institute
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Michael Brown was Killed Because He Didn’t Prostrate Himself to Police Authority
This Killing, in Combat, Would Have Been a War Crime by DAVE LINDORFF Source: This Can’t Be Happening What’s wrong with Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson’s killing of the unarmed 18-year-old black teenager, Michael Brown, and with a Grand Jury … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corruption, culture, divide and conquer, Law, news, police state, Psy-ops, Racism, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Darren Wilson, Darren Wilson acquittal, Dave Lindorff, Ferguson, Michael Brown, Police Militarization, police state, Police Violence, State Terror
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