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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

On the far right, neo-Nazis, racists hail Kavanaugh’s elevation to Supreme Court as open...

Andrew Schweizer - 10/10/2018

Willfully ignoring potentially dangerous behavior because it suits you is classic authoritarian behavior.

What does it look like when citizens don’t trust elections?

Andrew Schweizer - 08/15/2016

by Thomas Pepinsky, TomPepinsky.com, August 2016 Perhaps more than anything that he has said through his campaign, Donald Trump’s charge that the upcoming presidential elections will be...

Trump used to disparage an anti-bribery law; will he enforce it now?

Andrew Schweizer - 11/17/2017

by Jim Zarroli, NPR, November 2017 President Trump has called it "ridiculous," a "horrible law" that made it difficult for U.S. companies to compete overseas. But the Foreign...

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...

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...

The Healthcare Bill Exposes Trump’s Chilling Authoritarian Agenda

Andrew Schweizer - 05/08/2017

It's not only an assault on our bodies, but on our political will by Sarah Kendzior, Marie Claire, May 2017 A group of old white men stand...

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

Andrew Schweizer - 11/12/2019

By Michael Edison Hayden, Southern Poverty Law Center, November 2019 In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted...

Women’s rights take centre stage as murdered activists are remembered

Andrew Schweizer - 11/29/2018

by Liz Ford, The Guardian, November 2018 Rising misogyny and an increase in the restrictions placed on women’s freedom worldwide mean the work of campaigners who...