Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
AFRICOM is designed to do only one thing well, and that is to kill Africans. “Global Africa must find a way to eliminate the AFRICOM threat.”
American warfare has been waged almost exclusively against people of color, dating to independence and 1492.
Activists and community organizers have never known the precariousness of the threats they face today.
There is every indication that a Biden administration will maintain the punitive sanctions against Venezuela, suffocating the country during the pandemic.
From Obama v McCain to Biden v Trump, the good cop/bad cop drama of US imperial politics, continues.
