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In the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by a white police officer while in custody, people all over the country have united to protest police violence and call for charges to be brought against the police officers responsible for his death. Others have backed up social action with dollars, flocking to grassroots organizations in the state of Minnesota to support protesters on the ground. One of these organizations is the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an abolitionist-focused group working toward ending cash bail in Minnesota and nationally. Over the past few days, a Twitter trend...

I killed so many I lost count, says boy, 11 (Filed: 03/08/2005) Thousands of children have been taken by a Ugandan cult and forced to join in mass murder. Now the net is closing on the fanatic responsible. David Blair reports from Gulu Vincent Okot was eight when rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army kidnapped him from his village in northern Uganda. Brutal: Joseph Kony His lush, fertile homeland is also the killing ground of Africa's most brutal guerrilla movement, led by Joseph Kony, a self-styled prophet. During 19 years of war, the LRA has abducted 20,000 children, enslaving and...

  Neo-Conservatism Explained by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Commentators across the spectrum have finally clued in to neo-conservatism as the intellectual framework of the Bush administration. We are suddenly faced with long think pieces on the role of political philosopher Leo Strauss in influencing the architects of the Iraq war and Bush's governance in general. We are also learning about the ideological path taken by former college Trotskyites into the Republican Party of the 1970s. It's an instructive example of tenacity and dedication in translating ideas into practice. Along with the political victory of the neocons (by victory I...