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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

Texas GOP members demand removal of practicing Muslim leader

Andrew Schweizer - 12/05/2018

by Colin Kalmbacher, Law and Crime, December 2018 The Republican Party of Texas is riven with fractures and infighting as a local branch attempts to remove...

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.

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...

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...

President Trump has made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days

Andrew Schweizer - 11/03/2018

Dishonesty and the use of chronic lying 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,...

Mattis: Russia tried to interfere in 2018 midterms

Andrew Schweizer - 12/03/2018

by John Bowden, The Hill, December 2018 Defense Secretary James Mattis said Saturday that Russian operatives attempted to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, apparently confirming for the...

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...