Homeland Security

December 2, 2008 GeorgeWashington's Blog Everyone knows that deploying 20,000 troops on U.S. soil violates Posse Comitatus and the Constitution. And everyone understands that staging troops within the U.S. to "help out with civil unrest and crowd...

From Donna Marsh O'Connor First let me say, after years of skepticism re the Democratic Party, I am a Progressive Democrat and so my comments reflect that. Someday perhaps someone more powerful than I will...

Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia, and other independent media activists have released a new film, 'Terrorizing Dissent', an exposé of events at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Featuring first-person accounts...

"My sense of alarm comes from the clear lessons from history that, once certain checks and balances are destroyed, and once certain institutions have been intimidated, the pressures that can...

Although it may be surprising to Americans who aren't paying attention, the Bill of Rights applies to American veterans, as well as the rest of us. Theoretically, that is... First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. So I must ask -- If "Congress shall make no law...", who made the law that allows police on horseback to trample an Iraq War Veteran? Or 'pre-emptively' arrest, and confiscate the equipment of, i-media and other noncorporate media entities? Or press felony "conspiracy to riot in the furtherance of terrorism" charges against 20-somethings who go about feeding people? If you've not recently looked at HistoryCommons.org's "Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11" timeline, this would be a good time to do so, in addition to reading the following. Now that you're suitably outraged, what will you do? Resistance is personal. Democracy is not a spectator sport. What will you, personally, do today?

by Carol Brouillet Apocalypse (Greek: Apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil") is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used...