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March 30, 2023
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Evicted – the book and the exhibition

April 3, 2019
We read Evicted – poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond last year in our local library book group. Recently on a visit to Washington DC to the National Building Museum (401 F St. NW – Judiciary Square Metro stop) we came on an exhibit based on --->> read more -->>
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Recently Noted – more unequal justice – lots of it….

February 15, 2019
The Louisiana Project: A Study of the Louisiana Defender System and Attorney Workload Standards – February 2017 by Postlethwaite & Netterville, APAC and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants provides a startling example of the gigantic fraud that is the American legal system. Using standards for the number --->> read more -->>
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Recently Noted – Serial the Podcast – More Evidence of the Delusion of Justice –

November 4, 2018
We have written earlier about the fact that effective legal representation and trial by jury is a rarity making one of our cultural icons a complete sham. As Jed Rakoff has noted: In actuality, our criminal justice system is almost exclusively a system of plea bargaining, negotiated behind closed doors --->> read more -->>
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The Rule of Law, Justice, American Delusions

June 27, 2017
Fairness, an equal shake, blind justice, jury of peers, rule of law…Amendments IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and XIV…. these are all ubiquitous and universally applauded features of American life. Like blind lady justice they are ubiquitous in every area of our culture. This system of justice makes us superior --->> read more -->>
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    • – politics
    • – racism – white supremacy
    • – security state
    • – technology
    • – women
  • Briefly Noted
  • Keystone Essays
    • – American Delusions – introduction
    • – Our Social Nature and the Future
    • – our history – the intentionally forgotten
    • – capitalism and free-market Ideology (neoliberalism)
    • – environment
    • – healthcare system
    • – american empire
    • – justice, police, and the prison system
    • – racism in america – white supremacy
  • Other
    • – project blog
    • – book reviews & notes
    • – bibliography
    • – video-movies-podcasts
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