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“There are people who are serving decades-long sentences for marijuana….They’ve been really punished for what others are making so much money off of.”
How hard is it to understand the difference between charging poor people monetary fines they obviously can’t pay, and addressing homelessness with housing?
As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the US’s long history of violently intervening in Honduras.
With a possible military operation that could have disastrous consequences, corporate outlets are unsurprisingly ceding the floor to the warmongers.
“The public should be able to read the government’s legal justification right now, while there’s still an opportunity to stop these illegal and dangerous strikes.”
Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?
“The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive.”
Twenty years ago this month, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide after his career was systematically destroyed.
“The United States, through the coup d’etat, was in cahoots with elite power in Honduras that replaced a democratically elected president.”
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn’t really “yours,” in the sense that you can’t fix it if it breaks.
“We need to make sure that people who use drugs are armed with information that will keep them safe and that will keep them alive.”
Saying how hard you want to be on “dealers” is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue.
This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. He hated the violence, and was furious Nancy Pelosi wasn’t putting a stop to it. He doesn’t remember getting many phone calls, and he didn’t destroy any […]
A bankruptcy ruling shields the Sackler family, profiteers on Oxycontin, responsible for, conservatively, half a million deaths by overdose.
It’s helpful to have a narco-jihadi menace—in bed with socialist regimes in Latin America, no less—festering along the United States’ southern border.
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“The Nixon administration went about policing drugs…as if it were a real war. The same way that we would fight foreign adversaries, we were fighting our own citizens.”
Corporate media prioritize the supposed “risks” to the electoral prospects of Democrats who call for banning fracking over the prospects for human civilization’s survival.
“I think this bill really does fail to imagine what public safety could look like. That’s our biggest problem with it. They’re not listening to people on the ground.”
Overpolicing and violent policing have much to do with the so-called war on drugs, which serves as a pretext for the harassment of individuals and entire communities of black and brown people.
