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Prohibition Profiteering, Crony Capitalism, and America’s Prison Society: Malheur County, Oregon as Case Study

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9/12/2014

Collective Guilt for Mundanes, “Qualified Immunity” for Privileged Killers

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9/10/2014

When an Amateur Thug Turns Pro: The Corey Pegues Story

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9/8/2014

A Principled Parent Deflects a Military Flesh-Peddler

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9/4/2014

Speaking Ill of the Police is a “Hate Crime”

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9/4/2014

Six Officers, Eighty Shots, and a Celebration

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9/3/2014

Fathers: Warn Your Daughters About the Warfare State

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9/3/2014

Laredo Police Celebrate a Killing

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9/2/2014

When Mommy Goes to War

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9/1/2014

“Use It, or Lose It”: Federally Subsidized Police Escalation

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8/27/2014

The Ferguson Shooting: Identified Gang Member Kills Possible Gangster Wanna-be

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8/21/2014

The Rapist Doctrine vs. the Tom Joad Test

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8/19/2014

Did Michael Brown Steal Cigars — Or Pay For Them?

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8/18/2014

Michael Brown, the “Tom Joad Test,” and Darren Wilson’s Likely Defense

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8/17/2014

Rocinante’s Saddle is Empty: The Passing of Congressman George Hansen

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8/17/2014

Ferguson Follow-Up: “Any Felony Rule,” Velvet Gloves for the Iron Fist

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8/15/2014

“Outside Agitators” in Ferguson

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8/14/2014

To Provoke and Suppress: The Military Occupation of Ferguson, Missouri

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8/12/2014

Police Union Commissar: If You Resist, You Should Expect to Die

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8/9/2014

Costumed “Heroes”

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8/8/2014

A Cop’s “Worst Nightmare”: Accountability

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8/6/2014

This Just In: SWAT Team DOESN’T Kill An Elderly Person

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8/4/2014

The Logic of Occupation: NYPD Arrests The Man Who Recorded The Police Murder of Eric Garner

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8/4/2014

Killer Criminal Cop in Oakland Invokes “Nuremberg Defense” — Gets Reinstated

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8/1/2014

FBI, “Local” Police Barricade Entire Town

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7/31/2014

The Collateral Damage from a Sniper’s Literary Misfire

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7/30/2014

Forget the Sopranos — In New Jersey, the Cops are Making Out Like Bandits

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7/25/2014

The Child Predator With a Plunder-Provided Pension

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7/24/2014

Testilying and Tribal Hatred: Cops React to the Murder of Eric Garner

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7/22/2014

RIP, Anne Conte, Age Nine — A Casualty of Marijuana Prohibition

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7/21/2014

James Garner — and Jim Rockford — RIP

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7/20/2014

From Zero to Murder in Minutes: The Latent Lethality of Every Police Encounter

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7/18/2014

Jury Declines to Imprison Man Who Survived a Cop’s Murder Attempt

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7/15/2014

Maryanne Godboldo Triumphant: Another Victory for the Right to Resist

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7/15/2014

Free Shaneen Allen!

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7/14/2014

“What a Rush!”: Idaho’s Anti-Drug Ayatollah Gets High

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7/13/2014

The Victim Will Die of Torture in a Cage; the Torturers Will Die Peacefully in their Beds

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7/13/2014

Blaming the Gun, Not the Shooter — Especially if He’s a Cop

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7/12/2014

Virginia Police Commissioned to Create Child Porn

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7/10/2014

The Dogma of Drug Prohibition: Neither Your Life Nor Your Death Belongs to You

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7/8/2014

Is It A Crime To Insult the Police?

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7/7/2014

“Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” — Revised and Updated

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7/5/2014

More Scenes from the Drug War: Terrance Huff vs. The Brigands of Collinsville, Ilinois

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7/5/2014

Springsteen? Mellencamp? Creedence? Heretics All!

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7/4/2014

In Florida, Non-Submission to a Police Beating is “Attempted Murder”

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7/2/2014

What Passes for “Heroism” at the Salt Lake City Police Department

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7/1/2014

Sheriff Joey Terrell, The Coward of Habersham County

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7/1/2014

All Hail the Heroic Bootlegger — Exemplar of the American Spirit

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6/28/2014

A Snapshot of Police State Amerika: Wishing Death on the Child of an Uppity Mundane?

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6/26/2014

Unless SWAT Stormtroopers Can Burn Infants In their Cribs, ISIS Will Get You!

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6/25/2014