Citizens Media Resource: The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat

Police Chiefs Fear Domestic over Foreign Hate Groups
U.S. police departments cite right-wing hate groups as the biggest domestic terror threat, by far trumping Islamic militants. Link to New York Times op-ed based on a a survey of police chiefs by

Mass murderer Dylann Roof

the non-profit, Police Executive Research Forum.

Will Police Rethink Tradition of Using Force?
The 21-foot rule and warrior mentality need to be wrung out of police mindset. "Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force," link to New York Times story.

Wish List of Research

1. Who makes money on war? And on military buying, protecting and occupying? Yeah, we already know, but let's audit this with excellent research that lays out who profited and continues to profit from our invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afganistan....or any other military activity and occupations, past or present. We have at least 823 foreign bases that the U.S. admits to; those are paid for by taxpayers, and the military bases are there principally to guard the oil for Exxon-Mobil. I believe we will find that taxpayers spend a huge amount on corporate welfare and subsidies to giant corporations, whose profits obviously are more important than the lives and limbs that are sacrificed in military actions. While we are at it, we should study who makes money from natural disasters, and how they get handed huge government contracts---in a no-bid rush, of course, since it is an emergency. There are capitalistic exploiters who feed off this as an industry; they are just not so long-established as what President Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex."

2. Economic impact of legalizing use and sale of marijuana. There's another economic stimulus and revenue raiser. It would be regulated for safety and legal for individuals and small outfits to grow and sell. With the chance for broad participation, and the exclusion of monopolistic takeover of the market, many Americans would have the opportunity to be entrepreneurs.

Citizens Media Resource

Friday, June 26, 2015

The Growing Right-Wing Terror Threat

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