The CIA and the military on campus: the academy, democracy and the threat of militarization

^{Students protest CIA recruitment at UC Santa Barbara, November, 2007}

Longtime Black Panther associate was FBI informant, report says

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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.

Terrorism and dissent: police war metaphors spell danger for democracy

FISA and beyond – away with all warrants!

Associated Press reported that the Justice Department submitted 1,745 requests to a “secret court” in order to wiretap or conduct physical searches in “terrorism and espionage investigations” in 2011.

Human Terrain Systems: cultural deciphering as weaponry

Yesterday the administration of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University sent out an email titled "Subject: Social Scientists needed - Army Human Terrain Systems program." The email reads as follows:

UK privacy flap: what does it really mean?

_{Demonstrators outside the NSA's Menwith Hill spy base in the rural UK. Credit: Phil Champion}

Vandalism: a threat to America?

When President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11, he said that the agency would "develop all-hazards plans and capabilities, including those of greatest importance to the security of the United States homeland, such as the prevention of terrorist attacks and preparedness for the potential use of weapons of mass destruction, and ensure that state, local, and federal plans are compatible."