Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists?
Barack Obama was the nation’s most pro-charter president, but much of his party has grown leery of them.
Aislinn Pulley: BLM Chicago: no more neoliberalism; Medea Benjamin: Defending the Venezuelan embassy in DC; Atty Roger Wareham: US sanctions against Zi
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.
In Cameroon and the former Spanish Sahara, “women are using traditional ideas about power to drives these secessionist movements,” said Jacqueline Bethel-Mougoue, a professor
