Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bad government has been good business during the Bush administration. In 1999, nine companies had federal homeland security contracts. Today the total is over 33,000. “Much of what we’ve seen touted by vendors after 9/11,” says security consultant Doug Laird, “is nothing more than a sales force trying to use 9/11 as the hype to […]
Also filed in breaking news, class and poverty, human rights, immigrants, labor movement, politics, race and racism
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Tagged , argentina, coca cola, columbia, domestic spying, fbi, ford, haliburton, infragard, klan, martial law
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[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).]
Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all.
I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International released their […]
Also filed in breaking news, civil rights, disarmament, human rights, immigrants, politics, race and racism, tech
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Tagged aclu, chris messina, church commission, data portability, david cole, department of homeland security, domestic surveillance, eff, facebook, fbi, fusion centers, google, japanese internment, loren feldman, marshall kirkpatrick, nsa, privacy, sane, shane harris, tangram, total information awareness
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Since my recent post on domestic surveillance and J. Edgar Hoover’s secret plan for mass detentions of suspected “subversives,” I’ve come across a number of blog posts that make interesting supplements to the sources I originally assembled. I’m posting excerpts from two historically focused pieces here and will follow up soon with another post that […]
Also filed in Weblogs, disarmament, labor movement
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Tagged blacklists, communism, fbi, film, huac, organized crime, privacy, surveillance, unions
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
Also filed in Weblogs, breaking news, civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, immigrants, katrina, louisiana, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention
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Tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
In my recent posts about the effects of torture on US military personnel at the US facilities where it occurs, I have emphasized that the torture question is more than a question of individual techniques during an interrogation. The interrogation room is only a small part of the regimen imposed on detainees in US custody […]
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Yesterday (Tuesday) morning I received an email message from Verizon Wireless, offering me a “Wory Free Guarantee” with new “exclusive benefits,” including “FREE Back-Up Protection:”
Never worry about losing your phone’s contact list.
Automatically retain a copy of your saved phone numbers to a secure web site.
Available if you lose or upgrade to a new phone.
The thought […]
Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Black Commentator’s Margaret Kimberly notes that Halliburton has won yet another multi-million dollar government contract—this one to build “temporary detention facilities” in case of an “immigration emergency.”
The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan […]
Thursday, December 29, 2005
[In 1919,] Blacks were damned as Wobblies, socialists, Bolsheviks, or anarchists simply for agreeing with ideas that went beyond political orthodoxy. Even black nationalist (and anticommunist) Marcus Garvey received the communist label because he rejected the subordinate “place” of African Americans. Some blacks, like Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph, editors of the socialist […]
Sunday, December 25, 2005
This is good stuff for non-Jews (as well as Jews) to read. Aron states precisely why I, too, would much rather people just come out and say “Merry Christmas,” instead of the supposedly ecumenical “Happy Holidays.” The so-called war on Christmas is an utterly stupid concept, except for what it reveals about the right wingers’ […]
Sunday, December 11, 2005
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s John Gilmore is suing the Justice Department because he does not believe the law requires him to fly with ID. What is the DOJ’s defense? That there is a law requiring IDs, only it’s secret and they can’t tell anyone what it says.
Really. I’m not kidding.
The Bush […]
Headline is from Bob Fertig at Democrats.com. He writes:
In order to trash Cindy, [FOX’s John] Gibson called on Ira Stoll, editor of the rightwing New York Sun and author of “Cindy Sheehan’s Crowd.” Stoll attacked Cindy for working with “extreme groups and individuals”:
Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out all have representatives […]
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