VIDEO Chris Hedges | Days of Revolt: Militarizing Education

O'Brien: less than 100 people have degrees in Middle Eastern studies. Further to that, less than 1 percent identify themselves as Arab linguists. So this whole prevalent, common notion that after 9/11 the national security community had a boots-on-the-ground about-face and was interested in human intelligence, in human collection of intelligence, as well as language and cultural studies, is absolutely false.

Steven Rosenfeld: Should Protestors Embrace Violence?

The question of violent versus nonviolent protest has bedeviled movements for decades. By Steven Rosenfeld  AlterNet  December 10, 2014      Editor's Introduction: From the article: “The pattern that emerges from these pages shows that heavily funded municipal, county, state and federal ‘counter-terrorism’ agencies (often acting in concert through state/regional 'fusion centers') view citizens engaged in More

ACLU Releases Files Showing Innocent Americans Caught Up in Surveillance

1,800 'suspicious activity reports' posted online that ACLU says do not reveal any valuable counter-terrorism intelligence By Associated Press  20 September 13  ReaderSupportedNews.org Civil liberties groups released newly obtained documents Thursday that they say show innocent Americans being swept into a broad nationwide counterterrorism program. Photo: unknown The American Civil Liberties Union and More

Dave Lindorff> FBI Knew of Plot to Execute Occupy Activists but Did Nothing

 When the movement came to Houston, Texas, law enforcement officials and the city’s banking and oil industry executives freaked out perhaps even more so than they did in some other cities. Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed, Published: Friday 28 June 2013  NationofChange.org When, in early October, the Occupy movement came to Houston, Texas, law enforcement officials and More

Dave Lindorff> FBI Knew of Plot to Execute Occupy Activists but Did Nothing

 When the movement came to Houston, Texas, law enforcement officials and the city’s banking and oil industry executives freaked out perhaps even more so than they did in some other cities. Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed, Published: Friday 28 June 2013  NationofChange.org When, in early October, the Occupy movement came to Houston, Texas, law enforcement officials and More

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