▶ William Blum on Covert Wars • Henry A. Wallace National Security Forum
How can a democratic society tolerate such a secret and lethal institution that works against the very values America seeks to uphold around the world?
Henry A. Giroux: Orwell, Huxley and the Scourge of the Surveillance State
Giroux: We must also be attentive to the ways in which being spied on has become not only normalized, but even enticing.
Eric Poulin: Henry A. Giroux | Liberalism’s Failures in a Time of Increasing Violence, Racism, Inequality and State Terrorism
Poulin: Giroux argues that the country is in the midst of a counter-revolution, one that cannot be understood simply by pointing to police brutality. He claims the left needs a larger theoretical and political framework to understand the uniqueness of the current historical moment, one that has forged a number of fundamentalisms, including educational fundamentalism, military fundamentalism, economic fundamentalism and religious fundamentalism, which together have given rise to a new form of financial and cultural totalitarianism or more broadly a pernicious and unique brand of authoritarianism.
David Wagoner reads “A Report to the City Commissioners”
"and wooden poles had all rooted, grown taller, sprouted leaves, had given rent-free room to birds, conspired at their bases with weeds without permits..."
â–¶ Melissa Hill talks about police surveillance and tracking, Peacestock 2014
Activist, Chalker, Blogger talking about the surveillance state in Minnesota.  In September 2011, Melissa Hill was the first person arrested in connection with Occupy MN protests. Following a lawsuit claiming she was wrongfully arrested for trespassing on what was public property, she received a $15,000 settlement for her trouble. Hill now has a blog, "Track the More
Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism and the Machinery of Disposability
A number of neoliberal societies, including the United States, have become addicted to violence. War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. As war becomes a mode of sovereignty and rule, it erodes the distinction between war and peace.  By Henry A More
Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism and the Machinery of Disposability
A number of neoliberal societies, including the United States, have become addicted to violence. War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. As war becomes a mode of sovereignty and rule, it erodes the distinction between war and peace.  By Henry A More
Collect it all: America’s surveillance state
Fault Lines investigates the fallout over the NSA's surveillance programme in the US and abroad.  Fault Lines Last Modified: 07 Nov 2013  AlJazeera.com Some of the US' best secrets are out since former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden released thousands of classified documents about government surveillance in one of the most significant leaks in US More
Juan Cole: Top 10 Things That Don’t Make Sense About NSA Surveillance, Drones and Al-Qaida – Truthdig
 If the NSA and ATF have the telephone, credit card and internet records of all Americans, why don’t they stop mass shootings? NSA By Juan Cole  Posted on Aug 6, 2013  truthdig.com This piece first appeared on Juan Cole’s website, Informed Comment. In a Reuters Exclusive, John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke reveal that the National Security Agency shares information it gleans More
Peter Hart: When the State Attacks Journalism
The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request. The man from Whitehall looked mystified. "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more." By Peter Hart August 20, 2013  FAIR.org On More
Glenn Greenwald> Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself
Glenn Greenwald  theguardian.com, Friday 23 August 2013 The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent' GCHQ's headquarters on the outskirts of Cheltenham. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA (Updated below) The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" - More
Glenn Greenwald> Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself
Glenn Greenwald  theguardian.com, Friday 23 August 2013 The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent' GCHQ's headquarters on the outskirts of Cheltenham. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA (Updated below) The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" - More