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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.

Women’s rights take centre stage as murdered activists are remembered

Andrew Schweizer - 11/29/2018

by Liz Ford, The Guardian, November 2018 Rising misogyny and an increase in the restrictions placed on women’s freedom worldwide mean the work of campaigners who...

Pentagon wants to predict anti-Trump protests using social media surveillance

Michael Janczyn - 10/31/2018

The embracing of mass surveillance systems 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...

Inside Trump’s plan to scale back U.N. resolutions on sexual health, violence against women

Andrew Schweizer - 10/30/2018

Assuming strict control over language and instituting hyper conservative policy is classic authoritarian behavior.

Trump’s appointment of Matt Whitaker is raising all sorts of legal red flags

Michael Janczyn - 11/08/2018

How is this legal? by Greg Walters, Vice, November 2018 In 2017, Matthew Whitaker went on television to explain how President Trump could appoint an acting attorney...

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...