Milwaukee Riots From Wauwatosa: The First Night

Footage shot by video journalist Isiah Holmes during the first night of the national guard activation following the Milwaukee riots. The raw footage shows the lights of surveillance planes as they circled over the riot zones. It also gives a brief look at the event from the perspective of ordinary citizens waiting it out in their homes.
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Milwaukee Riots From Wauwatosa: The Second Night

YungCartographer Productions Video Journalist Isiah Holmes’ footage of the second night of riots in Milwaukee. Show’s clearer images of the planes which continued to circle the city for day’s. Also includes interviews done that night and the following evening of residents describing their experiences.

Toppling An Empire w/ John Carico

In this installment of the Free Radical Media podcast, anarchist activist and The Fifth Column News author John Carico returns to discuss Wikileaks, the 2016 election, his new weekly show “How to Overthrow and Empire,” (co-hosted by Eric Scott Pickard) and more.

US: California Bill to Protect Youth Miranda Rights

The California state assembly is considering a bill that would require a consultation with a lawyer for anyone under the age of 18 before they can waive their Miranda rights and be questioned, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch released a video about a police interrogation of a child in a murder case and the need to provide children with extra legal protection to reduce the chance of coerced confessions.

LIGO-Detected Black Holes May Be the Origin of Dark Matter

Two papers in the Physical Review Letters hold that the black holes detected by LIGO may be primordial black holes, and they may explain the nature of dark matter.

Unexpected Explanations

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has been one nifty new astronomical tool. In its brief existence, it has been able to detect several of the elusive gravitational waves. Previously, these had just been the stuff of speculations.

Empathy for the Enemy and the Oppressed: Political Pop Songs from the Eighties

Themes of love, loss and the other trials of our personal lives have been the mainstay of popular music for centuries. But in every generation there are pop artists who have taken on that other great theme called politics, responding to current events and instances of injustice both domestic and global, and bringing often controversial issues to the attention of the young people who make up their audience.

Growing up in Macedonia in the 1980s, my awareness of global politics was very much influenced by pop music, as a number of A-list artists during that era released huge hits addressing political issues, some of which were considered quite controversial at the time.

Heresy: A Reporter Investigates Evidence That Jesus Had a Wife

Walter Fritz had been an East German museum director, a real estate agent, an auto-parts business executive, an Egyptology student, and an amateur pornographer.

But his most recent achievement might well be his most lasting and ignominious – his involvement in an audacious antiquity transaction, wherein a piece of papyrus made its way into the hands of Harvard scholar Karen King, who then declared before the Vatican that it showed Jesus may have been married.

Video: Black lives matter: shutdown

“1,562 deaths in police custody in my lifetime. 0 convictions”. As Black Lives Matter protesters set up blockades in London, Birmingham and Nottingham, here’s their video explaining why it’s time for a shutdown.