The Problem of the New York Police Michael Greenberg  OCTOBER 25, 2012 New York Review of Books New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference announcing the arrest of Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh on terrorism charges, May 12, 2011. (Mary Altaffer/AP Images) Over the More
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy Posted by John Feffer September 6, 2012  TomDispatch.com Think back to the election of 2008. Do you remember how one candidate had it easy? He had eight years of abject failure to run against. Eight years that included the launching of two dismal wars, the creation of More
When Did Dissent Become a Crime? America’s Police State on Steroids at the Conventions Thus, the decision to give protests some breathing room in Tampa and Charlotte is notable because of past convention experiences, as well as the police attacks on Occupy camps in the last year. That may explain the absence of outright police More
When Did Dissent Become a Crime? America’s Police State on Steroids at the Conventions Thus, the decision to give protests some breathing room in Tampa and Charlotte is notable because of past convention experiences, as well as the police attacks on Occupy camps in the last year. That may explain the absence of outright police More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07hnMTrK20&w=420&h=315] Published on Aug 27, 2012 by thomhartmann Thom Hartmann shares a prime example of why we should not have a standing army in times of peace in the US.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07hnMTrK20&w=420&h=315] Published on Aug 27, 2012 by thomhartmann Thom Hartmann shares a prime example of why we should not have a standing army in times of peace in the US.
FBI Sharing Facial Recognition Software With Police Departments Across America By Madison Ruppert  theintelhub.com  August 25, 2012 It is no secret that facial recognition technology is on the rise with amazing leaps forward in efficiency, nor is it a secret that the federal government maintains a centralized biometric database. This program is so massive and coordinated that even governors have been overridden in More
Fazaga v. FBI: Eroding democracy, in two dimensions at once “Over the past decade, federal judges have turned a blind eye to corporate complicity in human rights abuses, the National Security Agency’s dragnet warrantless wiretapping scheme that captures and records essentially all email exchanges and phone calls even absent any individual suspicion, and now the FBI’s resurrection of COINTELPRO tactics More
NDAA on trial: White House refuses to abide with ban against indefinite detention of Americans Published:Â 10 August, 2012, 20:44 Â Â RT Â Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Jim Watson) Not only is the White House fighting in court for the power to jail Americans indefinitely without trial, but the Obama administration is refusing to tell a More
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The National Security Complex and You That Makes No Sense! Your Security’s a Joke (and You’re the Butt of It) By Tom Engelhardt Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:00am, July 19, 2012. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. When my daughter was little and I read to her regularly, one illustrated book was a favorite of ours. In a series of scenes, More
