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Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. (RT) Washington, DC police have released body camera footage from of the officer-involved shooting of unarmed black motorist Terrence Sterling earlier this month, identifying the officer. Sterling’s death prompted changes to the department’s bodycam policy. Officer Brian Trainer, 27, turned on his …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Greensboro, NC — In the American police state, sitting on your own porch in broad daylight, doing nothing untoward, could still earn a punch in the face and tackling to the ground by an ignorant, rogue cop — even if you’re fully …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. “There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and, by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug (antibiotics), make them resistant,” Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, cautioned at the acceptance of his Noble Prize …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. McKeesport, PA — An officer on the job for only a few weeks has been fired by the McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Police Department after an old social media post surfaced showing her in a uniformed selfie captioned with a racial slur. “I’m the …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. arrests New data from the FBI show that cannabis remains the primary target of the U.S. war on drugs, with someone getting arrested for cannabis possession every 49 seconds in 2015. 643,000 Americans were put in handcuffs because of a plant, despite …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Marksville, LA – After viewing officers gunning down a 6-year-old autistic boy in a police body cam video during court on Wednesday, a state judge released a heavily edited copy of the footage to the public. Although the officers claim that the …

Article first appeared at The Free Thought Project. Manville, NJ — Time out, lunch detention, and in-school suspension are all forms of discipline, among others, which teachers have employed to punish students for misbehavior. But after Frank Harvey, 17, a Manville, NJ, high school senior, completed a pro-2nd Amendment project, …

The largest and most important bank in the largest and most important economy in Europe is imploding right in front of our eyes.  Deutsche Bank is the 11th biggest bank on the entire planet, and due to the enormous exposure to derivatives that it has, it has been called “the …

Mass unemployment. Loss of income. Heavy dependence on assistance. And the biggest strain on the system we can imagine. The United States is once again brought to the brink of collapse. Regardless of how dismissive mainstream voices are on the issue, it is clear that Americas is only a few …

One of the recently exposed emails from the Hillary Clinton email scandal has raised some pretty damaging questions for the Clinton campaign. One of the 189 pages of FBI documents that were dumped this past Friday had an interesting line from an employee at Platte River Networks (the company that …