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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 administration attempted to barter of U.S. resident in exchange for minimizing Khashoggi probe

Michael Janczyn - 11/15/2018

by Sonam Seth/John Haltiwanger, Business Insider, November 2018 The White House considered extraditing one of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's top enemies to get Ankara to...

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...

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...

Silicon Valley is building a social credit system

Michael Janczyn - 08/26/2019

By Mike Elgan, Fast Company, August 2019 Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge citizens toward...

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.

The El Paso Shooting and the Gamification of Terror

Andrew Schweizer - 08/04/2019

By Robert Evans, Bellingcat, August 2019 On August 3, 2019, at around 11am local time, initial police reports indicated that a gunman had walked into an...

Trump suggests immigrants could be shot if they throw rocks at military

Andrew Schweizer - 11/01/2018

Fearmongering and disproportionate shows of force is classic authoritarian behavior.

Border agents can now get classified intelligence information

Andrew Schweizer - 11/01/2019

By Melissa del Bosque, ProPublica, November 2019 The Trump administration is creating a center that will give immigration agents access to information from U.S. intelligence...