DAVID PORTER / The Associated PressDec 10, 2019
Authorities believe the bloodshed was not an act of terrorism; the deadly incident is still under investigation. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel / ProPublicaApr 5, 2019
A new report explores how agency officials tried to crack down on the rich, only to find Congress and its patrons arrayed against them. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )
Paul Morantz / TruthdigMar 17, 2018
In any situation when every second lost could mean another child lost, he would take the risk of entering, because risking his life to save others was his job. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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By Michael Gould-Wartofsky, TomDispatchMay 6, 2015
Equate dissidents with domestic terrorists; arm police with "less-lethal" weapons; replace humans with robots. Here is a step-by-step guide, based on the latest developments in the security sector, on how to police a protest movement in the new age of domestic counterinsurgency. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
By Matthew Harwood, TomDispatchAug 14, 2014
Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory, often with the help of Uncle Sam’s armory, and where even nonviolent crimes are met with overwhelming force and brutality. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJun 9, 2014
As the wars overseas draw to something like a close, it's not just battered GIs that come home. "The former tools of combat -- M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more -- are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice," Matt Apuzzo writes at The New York Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 10, 2011
In May, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department SWAT officers broke into the home of 63-year-old Carlos Montes, a prominent anti-war activist and organizer for working class causes, and arrested him on suspicion of illegal possession of a firearm. The occurrence of similar arrests suggests the FBI is staging a low-profile witch hunt. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 5, 2009
The public lashing of a 17-year-old girl named Chand in Pakistan's Swat Valley became the catalyst for countrywide protests on Saturday after a video of the flogging made its way around the Internet. A spokesman for the local Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the video was fake and that the actual incident happened outside of Swat but defended the punishment as just. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 2, 2006
Mexican drug cartels have helped make California the largest domestic supplier of pot in the nation Seventy percent of the plants are growing in state and national parks zReportage magazine has an eye-opening photo essay and story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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