It’s no exaggeration to say that ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration, writes Rebecca Gordon.
The events of the last few years: Gaza, the Epstein files and more, have revealed that the new order of things is the open predation of the powerful on the rest of us.
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. History isn’t whispering: it’s shouting, says Thom Hartmann.
Jurors bravely set aside social conditioning, the instinct to defer to authority and media expectations. Instead they considered the actual evidence, reports Jonathan Cook.
Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop genocide is a crime.
The NYC mayor supports dissident leader Umar Khalid, jailed five years without bail in a deliberate attempt to turn the process into punishment, writes Betwa Sharma.
Guards are leaving federal inmates in restraints for hours and even, in dozens of cases, as long as a week. That’s just the latest finding on abuses pervading the system.
Prisoners are now in serious danger and thousands of entirely peaceful protesters in the U.K. face life-changing terrorism charges simply for speech in favor of Palestine Action.