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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

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.

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...

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...

Georgia doesn’t need another voter suppressor running its elections

Michael Janczyn - 12/03/2018

by Carol Anderson, The Guardian, December 2018 Donald Trump wants Brad Raffensperger to be secretary of state overseeing elections in Georgia. That, alone, should give any self-respecting...

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...

China warns U.S. criticism of Uighur detentions is not helpful for trade talks

Andrew Schweizer - 10/29/2019

By Reuters, October 2019 China’s U.N. envoy has sounded a warning note over trade talks with Washington after the U.S. joined 22 other countries at...

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...

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...