The Real News Network captured confrontations between Baltimore police and protesters defying Friday night’s 10 pm curfew, which attorney A Dwight Pettit and law professor Doug Colbert consider a dress rehearsal for martial law Also, Baltimore residents react to the charges brought against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray Dwight Pettit and law professor Doug Colbert consider a dress rehearsal for martial law.
Thailand’s junta leader, Prayuth Chan-ocha, who toppled the government of Yingluck Shinawatra in a coup last May, told reporters Wednesday that he will “probably just execute” any journalist who does not “report the truth.”
Using terror to silence people is a method that gets results in Thailand. I have noticed that the medicine given in order to create fear is of different strengths depending on one’s social position.
An Associated Press article in February confirmed a purchase order by the Department of Homeland Security for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. Someone in government seems to expect some serious civil unrest. Why?
As Poland's last communist-era head of state, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski faced off with the country's growing pro-democracy Solidarity movement and drew widespread criticism and outrage for his 1981 crackdown on the organization. Now some former detractors are reconsidering his legacy.
KSLA News of Shreveport, La., is standing by its report on "Clergy Response Teams," trained by the federal government to pacify an angry citizenry in the event of martial law. The idea being, as far as we can tell, that religious leaders are ideally suited to the task of explaining to people why they should give up their freedom for the "better good."
The Pakistani government may declare a state of emergency, which would grant it extraordinary powers, limit civil liberties and extend the political lifespan of embattled President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
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