Civil Rights

Alex Pretty holding a mobile phone while filming an encounter with ICE agents moments before he was shot.
A Life of Discovery, Politics, Social

Alex Pretty Was Not Armed. He Was Executed

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Alex Pretty was a U.S. citizen and a nurse. He was killed with at least ten bullets while holding a mobile phone, not a weapon. This essay examines his killing, the erosion of the rule of law in the United States, and the wider consequences of a power system that no longer tolerates witnesses.

Donald Trump holding a framed plaque next to María Corina Machado inside the White House.
Human Rights, Opinion / Legal Analysis, Politics

Empire Begins at Home

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Renee Good’s killing was not an anomaly but a symptom. As authoritarian power consolidates at home while the world watches elsewhere, dignity is traded, institutions kneel, and humiliation becomes strategy. This is not foreign policy. This is domestic empire.

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