Unrest, Power and Authority: An Analysis of CBS 60 Minutes
Is Minneapolis Repeating What Happened Years Ago? A Leviathan Lens on 60 Minutes: Minneapolis — Inside CECOT — Salties**Analysis of the CBS News episode (1/18/2026) This article reflects on the […]
History Has Seen This Pattern Before: When Power Moves Faster Than Law
History rarely announces itself as repetition. More often, it presents itself as necessity—an urgent moment that seems to demand extraordinary action. Yet time and again, history shows a familiar pattern: […]
Global Tipping Points Report (Oct 13th 2025) Warns Earth Has Crossed Its First Threshold
Unsafe to Drink: Local Water Contamination Crises in U.S. Towns
Facts & Timeline Forever Chemicals (PFAS) in Small Towns:In Brockway, Pennsylvania, residents are battling well water contamination from PFAS — industrial chemicals that do not break down and are linked […]
Oil & Gas Pollution — 90,000+ Premature U.S. Deaths Annually
Facts & Timeline A study published in Science Advances (2025) estimates that air pollution from the entire life cycle of oil and gas (extraction, transport, refining, burning) causes approximately 91,000 […]
State of the Air 2025 — 156 Million Americans Exposed to Unhealthy Air
Facts & TimelineThe American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2025” report finds 156 million people (46% of the U.S. population) live in counties with failing grades for either ozone […]
Wildfire Smoke & Pollution — Cross-Border Health Effects
Facts & Timeline In 2025, wildfires across Canada and the western U.S. produced massive thick smoke plumes that drifted south and east into U.S. states, triggering air quality alerts across […]
Deportations Without Due Process
Key Facts & Recent Cases In U.S. immigration law, persons facing deportation do not have a guaranteed right to court-appointed counsel in most cases, because immigration courts are civil, not […]
The U.S. as Enforcer of International Human Rights
Key Facts & Historical Markers After World War I, the League of Nations was established in 1920 as the first international body aiming to prevent future wars and promote cooperation. […]
Abu Ghraib — U.S. Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
Key Facts & Historical Markers The Abu Ghraib prison scandal emerged in April 2004, when CBS News broadcast images of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees, provoking global outrage. (wikipedia.org) (ccrjustice.org) […]
Reports of Sexual Abuse within U.S. Military Ranks
While the Abu Ghraib scandal exposed abuse of foreign detainees, a broader and ongoing problem within U.S. military ranks involves sexual assault and rape of military personnel, especially women, by […]
Guantánamo Bay — Indefinite Detention
Key Facts & TimelineOpened: January 11, 2002, under President George W. Bush, to detain terrorism suspects captured during the “war on terror.” (Wikipedia)Design: U.S. established the base in Cuba as […]
Remembering 9/11
Key Facts & Timeline Date of attacks: September 11, 2001. Coordinated hijackings: 19 al-Qaeda operatives hijacked 4 commercial airliners. • American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World […]