Still think the United States is governed by decent people? That the system isn't totally corrupt and obscenely unfair?
Two stories that broke April 23 ought to wake you up.
Story 1: President Barack Obama admitted that one of his Predator drones killed two aid workers, an American and an Italian, who were being held hostage by al-Qaida in Pakistan. As The Guardian reports, "The lack of specificity [about the targets] suggests that despite a much-publicized 2013 policy change by Barack Obama restricting drone killings by, among other things, requiring 'near certainty that the terrorist target is present,' the U.S. continues to launch lethal operations without the necessity of knowing who specifically it seeks to kill, a practice that has come to be known as a 'signature strike.' "