Cops Charged With Assault, Conspiracy, And ‘Official Oppression’

Officers Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight were caught on video knocking a man off of his motor scooter, then beating him and trying to charge him – the victim – with assaulting them.

Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
By Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News

Two police officers are being slapped with a long list of charges after being caught on video beating an innocent man. The charges range from aggravated assault, as well as simple assault, to conspiracy, recklessly endangering another person, tampering with public records or information, filing false reports, obstructing administration of law, and

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Conspiracy Realists And The American Xenophobic Impulse

I am a conspiracy realist. Certain conspiracies are real. History shows conspiracy theorists are right much more often than the mobs that hunted them.

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes

"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." -- James Madison How many times have we witnessed the truth-teller

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Kennedy’s Legacy Not As Polished As His Persona

The reason Americans cling to the myth of Kennedy is the reason all popular half-truths are held onto – it’s psychologically comforting to do so.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Next week Americans, if they can remember to stir themselves from the latest episode of “The Voice” or “Survivor,” will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, America’s first Catholic President and an icon of 20th-century world history. Steeped in conspiracy theory ever since that fateful day in Dallas in the

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Scandals With Traction?

Thirty-nine percent of polled Republicans convinced that the Benghazi issue is the worst scandal in American history don’t know where Benghazi is.

John Nordin
By John Nordin

Forty-one percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll, think the “cover-up” of Benghazi is the “biggest political scandal in American history. Forty-three percent disagree; 74 percent think it was worse than Watergate. The noise machine is in full cry. The president lied, didn’t care about the attack, and tried to blame a video rather than

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The Plot Thickens: Upcoming Book Claims LBJ Murdered JFK

Former Nixon staffer Roger Stone claims Jack Ruby was hired by President Johnson to kill Lee Harvey Oswald.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

Republican strategist Roger Stone is preparing to release a groundbreaking book claiming that Lyndon Johnson helped organize the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The book, titled “The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ,” is set to be published in October and offers frank allegations against Johnson, who succeeded

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