The Rise Of The Privatized For-Profit Probation Industry
Human Rights Watch reports on the prison-industrial complex creeping further outside of the prison walls: Every year, US courts sentence several hundred thousand misdemeanor offenders to probation...
View ArticleBillionaire S.C. Johnson Heir Gets Four Months In Jail For Sexually...
Does this sound familiar? You might be thinking of this totally different child molesting corporate heir escaping the consequences of his actions. A Wisconsin billionaire pled guilty to sexual assault...
View ArticleNobody’s Paying Us To Get Arrested: Low Wage Strikes Spread
via Common Dreams: In a dismal week, a rare, under-reported shard of hope: Thursday’s strikes by thousands of low-wage workers spread to over 190 cities, jumped industrial divides – fast food to... The...
View ArticleFear and Anger on Saturday Nights: What America’s Gun Fetish Probably says...
Ah, Saturday nights. The refuge of the gods. For me there’s nothing quite like them. Don’t get it twisted, I’m a family man, so I don’t party. I don’t stay out late.... The post Fear and Anger on...
View ArticleRemove the burden of family violence from the victims, to the courts
Rob Hulls, RMIT University Family violence has finally come to attention as a systemic wrong in need of a national plan. A federal Senate Inquiry is examining it in detail and Victoria... The post...
View ArticleWhy The New World Order Will Fail
When someone mentions “The New World Order,” it conjures up thoughts of conspiracy involving the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Skull and Bones, old privileged family wealth and royal lineage. Beneath...
View ArticleAnarchist Social Justice
Edward Martin and Mateo Pimentel write at CounterPunch: As a justifiable reaction to the problem of oligarchy in organizations and liberal democratic institutions, some theorists and activists have...
View ArticleProposals for a Freer and More Just Society
In case you haven’t noticed, the world is growing increasingly unfree and unjust. Just look around you. As the revelations by Edward Snowden prove, surveillance of citizens’ private lives by government...
View ArticlePiketty on National Debt: “Germany has never repaid.”
Via Daily Kos: In a blistering interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit, Piketty [the famed French economist and author of the best-seller, Capital in the Twenty‑First Century] blasts Germany and...
View ArticleSatirical Illustrations of How World Leaders Perceive Justice
Gunduz Aghayev is a painter who creates satirical illustrations ranging from pop culture to religion and human rights around the globe. This time he is taking on the concept of Justice seen through......
View ArticleThe Innocent Heart: Forging Tragedy into Justice
Via Gods & Radicals: The Fable of the Child and the Dog The Child: I haven’t always hated dogs. When I was a kid we had this dog that I really loved,... The post The Innocent Heart: Forging Tragedy...
View ArticleTexas Trooper Indicted for Perjury in Sandra Bland Case
The Waller County, Texas, grand jury indicted Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia – who arrested Sandra Bland – on perjury charges but has not issued any decision about Encinia’s...
View ArticleFacing Calls to Resign and a Pile of Lawsuits, Snyder to Address Flint Crisis
Amid mounting calls for his resignation and arrest—and in the face of a growing collectionof class action lawsuits in which he is named—Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to address the Flint... The...
View ArticleFinding Comfort in the Corruption of the Clintons: FEEL THE BERN
Bill Clinton was once again was caught sneaking some private time with a woman other than Hillary. Only this time it was the Attorney General Loretta Lynch. To the AG’s surprise, the “optics” of the...
View ArticleMatt Furie Cease And Desists the Fuck Out of the Alt Right
I suppose the problem with a bunch of dweeby right wingers starting a magickal “meme war” might have something to do with the fact that they have no talent. I mean, the... The post Matt Furie Cease And...
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