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by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

May 6, 2007



The 1970 killings by National Guardsmen of four students during a peaceful anti-war demonstration at Kent State University have now been shown to be cold-blooded, premeditated official murder. But the definitive proof of this monumental historic reality is not, apparently, worthy of significant analysis or comment in today's…

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By Marklar

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October 31, 2011

 

Many people have seen and commented upon the Washington Post article on the Oakland OWS police riots where, in typcal MSM bootlickery, the photo accompanying the article featured a female police officer petting a cat that had supposedly been abandoned by the evil cat hating protestors. Quite a blatant piece of propaganda it seems.…

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After witnessing unprovoked police brutality perpetrated against non-violent OWS protestors in Times Square, decorated veteran Sergeant Shamar Thomas (retired) gave police a piece of his mind. "This is not a war zone" Nobody has guns here." said the former marine repeatedly.

 

Police seemed hesitant to use the same methods against M. Thomas that had been used against protestors  in order to compel him to move along.

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2010 10 27

Red Ice Creations

By Claus Yeager





It may be of interest for you or your readers that we (alternative media people ) witnessing today what might be called the flashpoint of social transformation of the early Third Millenium A.D. happening in Germany.



There are peaceful demonstrations for months now in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, of tens of… Continue

Dissident Voice

by Kim Petersen / October 23rd, 2010

First a given: there can be no resistance unless there is something to resist against. There can be no anti-occupation resistance if there is no occupation, and there can be no resistance against oppression if there is no oppression. It is a simple logic that eludes many people. That it… Continue

March 4, 2010

In retrospect, does it not sound terribly naive that we would hope a U.S. president whose candidacy was selected and backed by our most powerful bankers would be permitted, just maybe, perhaps by virtue of his being black and well spoken, to modify the intense imperialism that has characterized all previous presidencies since, if not including, that of Teddy Roosevelt and…

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Courthouse News Service

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Man Says Cop's Taser Took His Eye



KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - A man taking an early morning walk says he lost an eye because a Kansas City cop shot him in the eye with a Taser, for no reason. Keith Hudson claims he had already answered all the questions officer Kyle Yrigollen had asked him,… Continue

The Star

Cathal Kelly Staff Reporter

11/20/2009

The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.



The bizarre story is laid out in a police incident report obtained by website The Smoking… Continue

By Marklar

September 28th 2009

As has been noted elsewhere while some protesters at the G20 were granted the permits they had applied for while others protested in unpermitted and unlawful assemblies. One such group was the Pittsburgh Police Department, an extremist militant organization bent upon disrupting peaceful protesters as a political… Continue

Public release date: 23-Dec-2008

Contact: Dr. Jared Strote

strote@u.washington.edu

206-852-1248

BMJ-British Medical Journal



Excessive use of force by police: A survey of academic emergency physicians



Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal.



The findings… Continue