EXPOSÉS
HATE
LA County Reports Highest Ever Hate Crimes, With Spikes in Virtually Every Category
After three consecutive years of double-digit increases, the number of reported hate crimes in 2023 spiked by 45 percent, from 930 to 1,350, the highest figure since reporting began in 1980.
LATEST
HUMAN RIGHTS
Greek Sex Trafficking Ring Dismantled—But It’s a Drop in the Bucket
Over and over, sex trafficking and blackmail rings traffic women to centrally located Greece for forced prostitution and other sexual exploitation. Why isn’t the government doing more?
MENTAL HEALTH
Foster Children on Psychotropic Drugs Are an Epidemic Requiring Urgent Reform
Abuses abound in foster care and elsewhere, as over 6 million kids are prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs. Over 400,000 of them are five years old or younger, and no one is tracking the side effects.
HUMAN RIGHTS
HUMAN RIGHTS
Greek Sex Trafficking Ring Dismantled—But It’s a Drop in the Bucket
Over and over, sex trafficking and blackmail rings traffic women to centrally located Greece for forced prostitution and other sexual exploitation. Why isn’t the government doing more?
HUMAN RIGHTS
We Needed a Vote to Abolish Slavery. On the Resolution’s 75th Anniversary, It’s Skyrocketed Instead.
The United Nations passed an anti-slavery resolution on December 2 in 1949. Since then, humans owned by others have skyrocketed to 50 million worldwide. What will it take to stop this scourge?
HUMAN RIGHTS
USCIRF Releases Report on Worldwide Oppression of Jehovah’s Witnesses
From the deprivation of rights to imprisonment, heavy fines, harassment, unemployment, disruption of religious services, forced labor and torture, Jehovah’s Witnesses too often pay a terrible price for their peaceful beliefs.
MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL HEALTH
Foster Children on Psychotropic Drugs Are an Epidemic Requiring Urgent Reform
Abuses abound in foster care and elsewhere, as over 6 million kids are prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs. Over 400,000 of them are five years old or younger, and no one is tracking the side effects.
MENTAL HEALTH
NIMH Scamming Taxpayers with Multibillion-Dollar Con Game That Accomplishes Nothing
NIMH operates by draining our pockets; torturing helpless animals in pointless, useless, ridiculous tests; wasting mountains of money; and doing absolutely nothing to effectively improve our country’s mental health.
MENTAL HEALTH
Coroner’s Report on Latest Death at the Hands of Psychiatry Is a Condemnation: “Gross Failure”
The multibillion-dollar industry of death that is psychiatry has been unable to cover its bloody tracks this year—which is why public trust in psychiatry is dead.
CORRUPTION
CORRUPTION
Sentencing of Cop for Drug Trafficking Is Just the Latest Tip of an Under-Reported Iceberg
Arrests of law enforcement officers for drug-related crimes are frequent, but the dimensions are unknown because agencies refuse to study the problem in their ranks.
CORRUPTION
Federal Agencies Continue to Duck FOIA Requests with Glomar Response
Eagerly adopted across the whole of government, this trick allows bureaucrats to duck FOIA accountability by refusing to even “confirm or deny the existence” of records.
CORRUPTION
NIH and Senior Staffers Engaged in Long-Term Effort to Evade FOIA, New Documents Show
Ironically, a congressional subpoena turned up evidence of a conspiracy between senior staffers to evade freedom of information requirements in order to deny the public access to critical information about the workings of government.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
New Book from Parent/Educator Barbie Rivera Says “Enough Is Enough.” Educate—Don’t Drug—Our Kids.
When her son’s school demanded Barbie Rivera drug her child, she said no. She’s been fighting back against a broken system ever since.
DRUGS
DRUGS
Darknet Drug Gang Selling Heroin Online—Delivered in Stuffed Animals—Receive Prison Sentences
Part of an epidemic of online drug sales, the “rickandmortyshop” brought death by mail. Now the leader is in federal prison for eight years—but it’s a drop in the bucket.
DRUGS
New Synthetic Opioid, Three Times Stronger Than Fentanyl, Causing Another Round of Mayhem
If fentanyl is big trouble, protonitazene is a flat-out monster. Estimated at 150 times stronger than heroin, its effects are only just beginning to be felt—in deaths.
DRUGS
Some 1 in 3 Americans Harmed by Loved Ones’ Use of Alcohol or Drugs
A study by the Alcohol Research Group shows 160 million collateral damage victims of substance abuse, including traffic accidents, vandalism, physical harm, financial issues and family or marriage problems.
HATE
HATE
LA County Reports Highest Ever Hate Crimes, With Spikes in Virtually Every Category
After three consecutive years of double-digit increases, the number of reported hate crimes in 2023 spiked by 45 percent, from 930 to 1,350, the highest figure since reporting began in 1980.
HATE
Lufthansa’s Record Civil Rights Violation Penalty for Antisemitism Is a Cautionary Tale
The airline receives $4 million fine for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers; US Special Envoy calls actions “unbelievable” and “outrageous.”
HATE
Mass Slaughter Against Religious Minorities Remains Endemic Worldwide
On the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi Genocide, organizations are looking for solutions that will end the scourge of genocide—often directed against religious minorities—and protect vulnerable populations.
