The book arrived yesterday in solid shape—still wrapped in its library cover, barcode intact. I ordered a bookmark for it too.
It’s Here: The Neocon Reader
Tag: violent crime
Nailing the neocon myth [Excerpts from The Neocon Reader]
Nailing the neocon myth (excerpt from “Neoconservatism” edited by Irwin Stelzer aka “The Neocon Reader”)
Read More »Trump’s Prescription for Poverty: Forced Psychiatry and the Criminalization of Homelessness
Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
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Trump Pushes Policies That ‘Treat Homelessness and Mental Illness as a Crime’
New Research Shows Risks of Coercive Psychiatric Treatment
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is raising difficult but necessary questions about a practice that affects hundreds of thousands of lives each year: involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
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This equates to a 79% increase in risk of being charged with a violent crime, and almost a doubled risk of dying by suicide or overdose, in the three months following evaluation for hospitalization.
The researchers also found hospitalization often caused destabilization. It led to declines in employment and earnings, and increased use of homeless shelters. It did not lead to better outpatient care or more consistent medication use.
How Immigration Is Affecting Whitewater, Wisconsin + What ProPublica Leaves Out
Whitewater, Wisconsin, gained national media attention after the arrival of hundreds of Nicaraguan immigrants motivated the police chief to reach out to President Joe Biden for additional resources.
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Read More »Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists
In 2015, six psychiatrists from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, the UK, published the study, “Depression and Violence: A Swedish Population Study” in Lancet Psychiatry.
Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists
David Villamar interviewed about Ecuador’s violent crime disaster
Despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Ecuador’s violent crime problem is such an incredible disaster that it manages to attract international attention. Criminals have recently taken over live newscasts. Supporters of the rightwing governments that created the disaster (for example, The Economist) have declared Ecuador to be the deadliest country in the Americas. It’s difficult for Ecuador to get international news coverage. In recent years, it generally has to be something very bad (or sports-related).
David Villamar interviewed about Ecuador’s violent crime disaster
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How Did Ecuador Spiral into This Nightmare? It Was the Neoliberal Dismantling of the State
Why Are Rich People So Obsessed With Proving US Cities Are Dystopian Hellholes?
Right-wing pundits, landlords, and tech executives all believe they can prove we are amid a crime wave with just one more video.
Why Are Rich People So Obsessed With Proving US Cities Are Dystopian Hellholes?
No, There Is No ‘Purge Law’ In Illinois. Here Are The Facts About Ending Cash Bail
There is no “Purge Law” in Chicago—what there is, is a concerted effort to prevent landmark bail reform that’ll prevent countless Black and brown people from being held in jail without a trial for no other reason than they’re poor by spreading lies and copaganda to the public.
Video clip originally from Olayemi Olurin
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No, There Is No ‘Purge Law’ In Illinois. Here Are The Facts About Ending Cash Bail
Viral TikToks and other social media posts are wrong about an Illinois law eliminating cash bail. Judges will still be able to detain people who pose a threat to the community or a flight risk.
Gun Theft Highlights Cognitive Dissonance of Democrat L.A. Mayoral Candidate
The Democrats’ green war on the working class
The obsession with climate change is hammering the poor and driving voters to the right.
The Democrats’ green war on the working class
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