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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

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...

Students celebrated Mexican heritage at a La Quinta library. They were told to next...

Michael Janczyn - 10/26/2018

Mandating homogenous cultural parameters 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.

Trump directs Justice Department to investigate ‘criminal leaks’

Michael Janczyn - 02/06/2017

The use of governmental power to target individual citizens for retribution is classic authoritarian behavior.

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,...

Sanders says Trump calling media ‘enemy of the people’ is not blaming the media

Andrew Schweizer - 10/22/2018

Turning media into an enemy of the people is classic authoritarian behavior.

Former FBI lawyer is dropping big hints about Trump obstructing justice

Michael Janczyn - 11/19/2018

by Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer - NY Magazine, November 2018 Most of the public fascination surrounding the legal ordeal of President Trump has attached itself to whether...

Trump administration seeks criminal crackdown on pipeline protests

Andrew Schweizer - 06/03/2019

by Ben Lefebvre and Anthony Adragna, Politico, June 2019 The Trump administration is joining calls to treat some pipeline protests as a federal crime, mirroring...