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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

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.

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.

DNC Shuts Down Climate Debate Compromise

Michael Janczyn - 08/26/2019

By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch, August 2019 The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will not let 2020 primary candidates share the stage in a debate devoted 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...

Trump’s preposterous bin Laden comments

Andrew Schweizer - 11/19/2018

by Peter Bergen, CNN, November 2018 President Trump spoke to Chris Wallace of Fox News on Sunday and made a number of false claims about the...

Mueller wants the FBI to look at a scheme to discredit him

Michael Janczyn - 10/30/2018

Intimidating opponents 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...

Trump just blurted out that he installed new Attorney General over the Russia probe

Andrew Schweizer - 11/15/2018

by Jack Holmes, Esquire, November 2018 Trump passed over multiple Senate-confirmed officials in the actual line of succession to pick Whitaker, who'd become Sessions's chief of...