The War on Immigrants

WITH THE SO-CALLED Migrant Protection Protocols program, or MPP, expanding along the southern border and trapping more U.S. asylum-seekers in dangerous Mexican cities, violations of due process are intensifying in traditional courts — and in newly built tents that physically separate immigrants from the judges who hear their cases. Trump’s Attacks on the Press Fuel Harassment More

Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, The Mass Killer and the National Security State

Greenberg: Given the staggering array of tools granted to the national security state domestically since 9/11, it’s a wonder (not to say a tragic embarrassment) that such killings occur again and again. They are clearly not being prevented and at least part of the reason may lie in the national security state’s ongoing focus on “counterterrorism,” that is, on Islamic extremism.

EXCLUSIVE: The Counterinsurgency War on—and Inside—Our Borders | WhoWhatWhy

The facts are now clear: the Pentagon’s push to use counterinsurgency tactics against drug traffickers is giving Mexican armed forces the leeway to operate in the airspace above U.S. territory. By Douglas Lucas   WhoWhatWhy.com   Jul 16, 2014  Blurred Lines: A Mexican military chopper in U.S. airspace, photographed by Texas park rangers. Courtesy of WikiLeaks More

EXCLUSIVE: The Counterinsurgency War on—and Inside—Our Borders | WhoWhatWhy

The facts are now clear: the Pentagon’s push to use counterinsurgency tactics against drug traffickers is giving Mexican armed forces the leeway to operate in the airspace above U.S. territory. By Douglas Lucas   WhoWhatWhy.com   Jul 16, 2014  Blurred Lines: A Mexican military chopper in U.S. airspace, photographed by Texas park rangers. Courtesy of WikiLeaks More

Homeland “Security”> Why is DHS secretly watching your tweets?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOjtBP3R2DY&w=420&h=315] Website for more information:  EPIC.org Uploaded by TheBigPictureRT on Jan 17, 2012 Ginger McCall, EPIC's Open Government Program, joins Thom Hartmann. While Progressives may enjoy reading the Huffington Post - and Conservatives may enjoy reading the Drudge Report - the Department of Homeland Security apparently enjoys reading BOTH websites..as well as social networking sites like Twitter More

Breaking anger, from Oakland to Tottenham, by Jesse Strauss, Al Jazeera

Breaking anger, from Oakland to Tottenham California activists worry UK police will import heavily armed enforcement tactics that violate the right to dissent. Jesse Strauss Last Modified: 05 Sep 2011 13:26  Al Jazeera Parallels between UK and California unrest worry activists that police will share ‘illegal and militaristic’ tactics to respond to urban unrest [Jesse Strauss/Al Jazeera] British More

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