Lauren McCauley

Sanders Slams Government That Has Money For War, Not For Flint

‘It is beyond my comprehension that in the year 2016 in the United States of America we are poisoning our children.’

Lauren McCauley
作者 Lauren McCauley
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a United Auto Workers rally on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Speaking at a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders said that the embattled community of Flint is the "canary in the coal mine" in a country that has seemingly endless money to spend on wars in the Middle East, but cannot afford to protect its citizens or rebuild its aging infrastructure. "It is beyond my comprehension that in

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Pentagon Releases 200 Photos Of Bush-Era Prisoner Abuse, Thousands Kept Secret

‘What the photos that the government has suppressed would show is that abuse was so widespread that it could only have resulted from policy or a climate calculated to foster abuse.’

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Photo relating to prisoner abuse released by DoD on February 5, 2015 in long-running ACLU lawsuit.

The Pentagon on Friday was forced to release nearly 200 photographs of bruises, lacerations, and other injuries inflicted on prisoners presumably by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. The record-dump was the result of a Freedom of Information Act request and nearly 12 years of litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union

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Counter Protesters Gather To Challenge Malheur Militia

Hundreds showed up at demonstrations across the northwest while others have been camped out in counter protest for weeks

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Hundreds of people gathered in Eugene, Oregon on Tuesday to protest the ongoing militant occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo: Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard)

The militant occupation of a wildlife sanctuary in Oregon has stirred the the ire of hundreds of nature lovers and defenders of public lands who have launched their own counter-protest against the group's ongoing "temper tantrum with guns." "We can show the gang that's out there at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge how you really make a

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The EPA’s Hush-Hush Response To The Flint Water Crisis

‘At that point, you do not just have smoke, you have a three-alarm fire and should respond immediately,’ charges water researcher.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Tap water in a Flint hospital on Oct. 16, 2015. (Photo: Joyce Zhu / Flintwaterstudy.org)

Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for months knew about the poisoning of the Flint water supply and, rather than raise alarm and stop residents from drinking the lead-tainted water, took a backseat on the matter. The Detroit News reported late Tuesday that federal officials began making inquiries in February and the

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Rightwing Terrorism On Display As Militants In Oregon Beckon Reinforcements

“Bundy and his followers are just your average angry white ‘freedom fighters,’ who use weapons and ammunition to protect the U.S. constitution and American values.”

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Range Showdown

Vowing to resist the "tyranny" of the federal government and defend themselves against law enforcement, armed militants on Monday continued their occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon. As the group issued calls to ranchers and other supporters on social media for reinforcement, the standoff for many has underscored the unique

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Declassified Files Show U.S. Targeted Soviet Civilians With Nukes During Cold War

Declassified Cold War files show disturbing nuclear targeting of population centers.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Nuclear missile launch site SF-88 in San Francisco, California.(1959).

The National Security Archive on Wednesday for the first time declassified a list of potential Cold War nuclear targets, and the picture is chilling. Among the industrial infrastructure and military sites that analysts concluded would achieve "high levels of damage" for the Soviet Union is one particularly troubling type of target:

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Sandra Bland’s Family Slams ‘Secrecy Of It All’ After Non-Indictment

‘She should have never been incarcerated. Period.’

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作者 Lauren McCauley

Many questions still remain after a grand jury on Monday chose not to indict anyone in connection to the mysterious and disturbing death of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last July. Prosecutor Darrell Jorden said the Waller County grand jury had not yet reached a decision on whether Texas

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