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Russia’s Foreign Minister Calls For End To US, NATO Role In Afghan Drug Trade

This week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held his annual press conference, at which he slammed NATO’s role in Afghan heroin trade.

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By Jack Burns
MARJAH, Helmand province, Afghanistan - Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a poppy field during a clearing mission April 9. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)

For many years now, the United States has been fighting, and losing, the violent war to end opiate, opioid, and heroin overdoses. As The Free Thought Project has consistently reported, opiate-related overdoses are now killing thousands of Americans per year, with no real end in sight. Our political foes know this and, according to Russia’s foreign

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Alabama Town Running Debtors Prison Ordered To Pay $680K Settlement

“Hundreds of impoverished residents have faced unconstitutional and unjust treatment in Alexander City simply because they were too poor to pay fines and fees.”

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By Jack Burns
Lawyers for Vincent Bias have called on Alexander City Police Chief Willie Robinson (pictured) to resign.

Alexander, AL — The Southern Poverty Law Center has reached a $680,000 settlement in its lawsuit against the Alabama city of Alexander and its police chief Willie Robinson. The settlement was for depriving 190 of its residents their rights to due process (6th Amendment) and the unlawful seizure of their property (4th Amendment). Sheriff Robinson

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Wikileaks Dismantles False BuzzFeed Article In One Tweet

When Buzzfeed News recently posted a tweet with an attached story which stated Apple had patched its IOS vulnerabilities described in Vault 7, WikiLeaks responded with a tweet of its own.

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By Jack Burns
Julian Assange

Last week, WikiLeaks dumped what seems to be authentic CIA documents which revealed, among other things, that the spy agency has a way of hacking into smart TVs in order to spy on targeted persons of interest. The data dump, known as the Vault 7 release, also showed the CIA has the ability to hack into Apple phones as well. While the conjugation of

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Georgia Officer Has Ex-Wife Jailed After She Complained About Him On Facebook

Lawyers for officers ex-wife. allege the Georgia county has a history of jailing people for defamation of character.

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By Jack Burns
The Facebook post that triggered Georgia officer Corey King into targeting his ex-wife Anne King.

(REPORT) --- In yet another federal civil rights lawsuit, the American taxpayer will likely foot the bill for the unconscionable actions of a few uneducated and unscrupulous police officers. This time, the police officer decided to arrest his ex-wife for “criminal defamation” of character, for Facebook posts she made which he, obviously, didn’t

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Police Officer Keeps Job After Murderous Threats To Minor

The narcotics officer reportedly told one of the teens he’d crush his skull and plant a kilo of cocaine on his body, supposedly to make his death look drug related.

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By Jack Burns
A Miami police officer stands guard during a campaign event with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami.

http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wamc/audio/2016/10/Copdiscipline.mp3 Springfield, MA — Some residents and public officials of Springfield Massachusetts are wondering what it takes to get a police officer fired after a narcotics detective reportedly threatened to crush the skull of a juvenile joy ride suspect and plant cocaine on his body. The

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