Why Trump’s Second Amendment Comments are More Dangerous than You Think
Donald Trump seems to be suggesting that some kind of collective act of resistance may be necessary to stop an overreaching government should Clinton win the November election.
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The Legacy of Berta Cáceres: What Environmentalists Can Learn From Human Rights Groups
/in Philanthropy News Digest/by Frank SmythDoes anyone doubt a link between the work of frontline environmentalists and global warming? Yet how many activists, let alone the public, are aware of the rising murder toll of local environmental activists?
Why Can’t We Do Anything About Guns?
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythThe only thing stopping real gun reform in the United States is a paranoid fear that some future, tyrannical regime would seize Americans’ guns and impose a totalitarian state.
Despite Widespread Calls For Him to Go, the NRA is Stuck With Nugent
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythSimilar to the way NRA bylaws control who gets elected to the board, the same bylaws control how a director may be removed once elected.
Cat Scratch Fever—Is Ted Nugent’s Racism Too Much for Republicans?
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythHow will the NRA respond to Nugent’s anti-Semitic rant? The NRA’s polished leadership has long walked a fine line between extremism and respectability.
In times of war, Pentagon reserves right to treat journalists like spies
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythThe Pentagon has produced its first Department of Defense-wide Law of WarManual and the results are not encouraging for journalists who, the documents state, may be treated as “unprivileged belligerents.”
“This is War”: How the CIA Justifies Torture
/in The Progressive/by Frank SmythA Defense Department spokesman, Marine Captain Jay C. Farrar, said it is “highly doubtful” that these courses offered instruction in abusive interrogation techniques. But according to U.S. Army Special Forces advisers formerly stationed in the region, small courses for selected Salvadoran soldiers regularly included training in “negative-incentive” methods.