Social Breakdown: Violence in the US
Mass shooting at Fort Hood: collateral damage from Iraq and Afghanistan wars
By David Walsh, November 7, 2009
The mayhem at Fort Hood in Texas, which has left 13 individuals dead and 30 injured, is a byproduct of the brutal wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It is a form of “collateral damage.”
Arizona: Man killed in police shooting following home foreclosure
By Josué Olmos, October 6, 2009
Arizona police killed Kurt Aho last week in a shootout sparked by the foreclosure of his home.
Prison riot in California
Budget crisis to make inhumane conditions worse
By Niall Green, August 13, 2009
On Saturday night, August 8, hundreds of inmates of the medium-security Chino Institute for Men in southern California took part in a riot that wrecked part of the prison. Gross overcrowding in the st...
Ten years since the mass killings in Colorado
The Columbine High School Massacre: American Pastoral...American Berserk
By David North, April 20, 2009
Ten years ago today two students at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, near Denver, killed 12 fellow students and one teacher, and wounded 23 others, before committing suicide. We ar...
California father, despondent over financial losses, kills family and himself
By Kate Randall, October 8, 2008
According to a new study by the American Psychological Association (APA), close to half of those surveyed say they are increasingly stressed about their ability to provide for their basic needs and th...
Finland: Second school shooting in less than a year
Striking similarity
By Jordan Shilton, September 29, 2008
On Tuesday, September 23, at approximately 11a.m., Finland was hit by the second mass shooting episode in less than 12 months, this time at a college in the town of Kauhajoki.
Hostage siege in Baltimore--another American nightmare
By Patrick Martin, March 29, 2000
The bloody events of the past several weeks in a working class neighborhood on the east side of Baltimore raise important social issues. After an initial murderous rampage in which Joseph Palczynski k...
A new round of shootings in the US
By Kate Randall, March 16, 2000
The latest in the seemingly unending rash of shootings in the US took place last weekend.
US: What the shootings in Flint and Wilkinsburg have in common
By Kate Randall, March 4, 2000
The two shooting episodes which took place in the US this past week, though quite different in their details, point at the same time to certain general conclusions that can be drawn from the ongoing e...
Hawaii, Seattle: latest shooting rampages in the US
By Jerry White, November 4, 1999
An unidentified gunman dressed in camouflage killed two people and severely injured two others at a shipyard office near downtown Seattle Wednesday, in the second shooting at a US workplace in two day...
Fort Worth, Texas gunman linked to fascist group
By Martin McLaughlin, September 22, 1999
The gunman who murdered seven people at a Fort Worth church September 15 had ties to extreme-right-wing groups in Texas, according to reports first published in the Houston Chronicle. Larry Ashbrook, ...
Eight dead in Texas church shooting—the latest eruption of social tensions in America
By Kate Randall, September 17, 1999
Just before 7 p.m. on Wednesday evening Larry Ashbrook walked into the Wedgwood Baptist Church in a middle-class neighborhood on the southwestern edge of Fort Worth, Texas and began shooting. He unloa...
