In several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone else. Though it’s not an official policy, at least five California state prisons have a color-coding system. On any given day, the color of a sign could […]
In several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone else. Though it’s not an official policy, at least five California state prisons have a color-coding system. On any given day, the color of a sign could […]
Frederick Reese Germany has — since the end of World War II — found itself at sometimes conflicting ends concerning its past with Nazism. On one hand, Nazism is banned in Germany; symbols of the Third Reich are outlawed, the party is forbidden to hold public office and even public denial of the Holocaust is […]
Frederick Reese Germany has — since the end of World War II — found itself at sometimes conflicting ends concerning its past with Nazism. On one hand, Nazism is banned in Germany; symbols of the Third Reich are outlawed, the party is forbidden to hold public office and even public denial of the Holocaust is […]
[soundcloud id=’87432911′] “Although we are here in the cold you should know across the country there are rallies like this everywhere. The time is absolutely now for comprehensive immigration reform,” shouted Javier Morillo, a representative for SEIU Local 26, Minnesota’s Property Services Union at an immigration reform rally this week. This issue is one […]
[soundcloud id=’87432911′] “Although we are here in the cold you should know across the country there are rallies like this everywhere. The time is absolutely now for comprehensive immigration reform,” shouted Javier Morillo, a representative for SEIU Local 26, Minnesota’s Property Services Union at an immigration reform rally this week. This issue is one […]
The government’s largest effort to compensate victims of the banks’ foreclosure practices is finally sputtering to an end. But for most of those eligible – nearly three million borrowers – it won’t be much of an ending: they’ll be receiving a check for $300 to $500. Payments to Homeowners Regulators are dividing $3.6 billion […]
The government’s largest effort to compensate victims of the banks’ foreclosure practices is finally sputtering to an end. But for most of those eligible – nearly three million borrowers – it won’t be much of an ending: they’ll be receiving a check for $300 to $500. Payments to Homeowners Regulators are dividing $3.6 billion […]
She was young and idealistic, caught in an old war that, for many, had long since lost its raison d’etre. When 25-year-old Anne Smedinghoff died in a suicide bombing in the Afghan province of Zabul on Saturday, she sparked a painful and bitter debate about the meaning of the 11-year U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. On […]
She was young and idealistic, caught in an old war that, for many, had long since lost its raison d’etre. When 25-year-old Anne Smedinghoff died in a suicide bombing in the Afghan province of Zabul on Saturday, she sparked a painful and bitter debate about the meaning of the 11-year U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. On […]
The makers of the taser — the electroshock weapon that discharges 50,000 volts into a person and results in the complete override of the central nervous system, causing an uncontrollable contraction of the muscle tissue — have a new piece of equipment they believe will revolutionize policing the police: an on-officer mounted camera. The camera, named Akon […]
The makers of the taser — the electroshock weapon that discharges 50,000 volts into a person and results in the complete override of the central nervous system, causing an uncontrollable contraction of the muscle tissue — have a new piece of equipment they believe will revolutionize policing the police: an on-officer mounted camera. The camera, named Akon […]
“St. Bonifacius gets it!” said FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, known for exposing intelligence failures before the 9/11 attacks, while addressing a crowd that had gathered in the social hall of St. Albert the Great Catholic Church in Minneapolis on April 6 to protest drones and war. “They realized drones are targeted on us and have […]
“St. Bonifacius gets it!” said FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, known for exposing intelligence failures before the 9/11 attacks, while addressing a crowd that had gathered in the social hall of St. Albert the Great Catholic Church in Minneapolis on April 6 to protest drones and war. “They realized drones are targeted on us and have […]
