Search Results for ‘dissent’ — 171 articles
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Terror Tuesday: Accountability and the courts on trial
Above: Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, a 16 year old US citizen killed in a US extrajudicial drone strike
The American public rarely encounters the faces and names of those we vaporize with our drones.
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Police killing of suspect raises protest, police violence
On Saturday 21 July 2012 police in Anaheim, CA shot to death a man officers say was running from them. People from the dead man's community staged an impromptu protest to confront what one community organizer called his "extrajudicial" killing at the hands of police. This is what happened next:
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“…pulling together all the data about…virtually every US citizen…”: NSA spying and the FISA Amendments Act
Jacob Appelbaum and William Binney in NYC, 20 April 2012. Photo: Aaron Muszalski/ACLUm
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“There is zero question that we live in a surveillance state…”
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The excellent civil liberties blogger Glenn Greenwald is making the rounds talking up his new book on the two-tiered justice system in the United States. He spoke with Russia Today about the book and the US surveillance state.
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Terror Tuesday: Jimmy Carter’s lament
Three and a half years ago former president Jimmy Carter was upbeat about the country and prospects for human rights after the years in which the Bush Administration viewed the Geneva Conventions as a “quaint anachronism” and moved with impunity beyond the rule of law.
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Special security events leave a lasting mark
It's now pretty well established: if your city plays host to a major "National Special Security Event" like a major party convention or global summit, your police department will probably gain broad new powers to restrict or intimidate dissent and tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of
Snatch and grabs on video
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We've written a lot about the militarization of the police; it will continue to be an issue we highlight here and in our advocacy work for years to come.
Why we must condemn ‘Terror Tuesday’
While you are reading this, President Obama may be mulling over the latest ‘Terror Tuesday’ Kill List with more than a hundred military and national security personnel.
