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Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps

Michael Janczyn - 11/24/2019

By BBC Staff, BBC News, November 2019 The Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far...

New Bolivian interior minister vows to jail Evo Morales for rest of his life

11/24/2019

Stephen Miller’s affinity for white nationalism revealed in leaked emails

11/12/2019

Border agents can now get classified intelligence information

11/01/2019

Brazilian president’s son suggests using dictatorship-era tactics on leftist foes

11/01/2019

Tanzania president Magufuli condemned for authoritarian regime

Ethics issues

By bending the knee to China, corporate America endangers democracy

News Andrew Schweizer - 10/11/2019

Charges dropped against 6-year-old children arrested at Orlando school

09/26/2019

Two children beaten to death in India ‘for defecating in public’

09/26/2019

Donald Trump

Trump campaign boasts president is ‘no Mr Nice Guy’ in new ad

News Andrew Schweizer - 11/01/2019

Trump raises idea of arresting House Chairman for treason

09/30/2019

Trump fantasizing about executing ‘spies’ behind the whistleblower complaint

09/27/2019

United States

Trump says in interview he is the sole arbiter of truth

Michael Janczyn - 11/19/2018

by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer - NY Magazine, November 2018 The conservative movement has long dismissed the value of neutral expertise — environmental scientists, arms control analysts,...

Mueller wants the FBI to look at a scheme to discredit him

Michael Janczyn - 10/30/2018

Intimidating opponents is classic authoritarian behavior.

There’s a reason Trump keeps lying about voter fraud

Andrew Schweizer - 01/17/2017

Making up charges against those who disagree with the government is classic authoritarian behavior.

DNC Shuts Down Climate Debate Compromise

Michael Janczyn - 08/26/2019

By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch, August 2019 The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will not let 2020 primary candidates share the stage in a debate devoted to...

Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think

Michael Janczyn - 09/03/2017

By Matthew Alford, The Independent, September 2017 The US government and Hollywood have always been close. Washington DC has long been a source of intriguing plots for filmmakers and...

Trump just blurted out that he installed new Attorney General over the Russia probe

Andrew Schweizer - 11/15/2018

by Jack Holmes, Esquire, November 2018 Trump passed over multiple Senate-confirmed officials in the actual line of succession to pick Whitaker, who'd become Sessions's chief of...

Secret court rules that the FBI’s “backdoor searches” of Americans violated the Fourth Amendment

Andrew Schweizer - 10/11/2019

By Aaron Mackey/Andrew Crocker, Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 2019 EFF has long maintained that it is impossible to conduct mass surveillance and still protect the...