The Marathon Bombings and the Lockdown of Boston: Was it really a Vindication of the Surveillance State?
By Falguni A. Sheth and Robert E. Prasch The sub-text of the official state view and media coverage coming …
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Violence Begets Violence: Turning to Dr. King in the aftermath of the Boston Bombings
This piece is in Salon, under various headlines: Where does the hate come from? Amid this tragedy, we ought to …
GiTMO Prisoners, Their Hunger Strikes, and Our Humanity
The Guantanamo Hunger Strike Should Remind Us of Prisoners’ Humanity —and Reawaken Ours. Recently, Olga Khazan, The Atlantic’s global editor, …
Racial Profiling, Islamophobia, and Whistleblowers: Targeting the Unruly Threat
Revised (11:05 am/Feb. 18, 2013). I’ve been dithering about writing this column for a while. But my Twitter feed in …
White Papers, Targets, and U.S. Citizens: What’s All the Fuss?
Revised 6:59 am. The last few days, the mainstreamish media and Congress have professed shock and outrage over the Office …
In America, Journalists “Push Back”: The Magnificent Hypocrisy of Touré
Update (2/17/13) below: Yesterday, the news of the leaked Department of Justice white paper brought on a flurry of “debates” …
Central Park 5: Over Again
Revised (4:35 pm). Last week, I attended a screening of Ken Burns’ documentary on the Central Park 5, which is …
Progress: Cheering Feminists Who Kill
Revised (1/25/13, 7:38 am). Leon Panetta’s announcement, overturning a 19-year ban on allowing women to join small-group combat units in …
What a Small World: Carmen Ortiz, Aaron Swartz, and Tarek Mehanna
Revised: January 15, 2012, 3:25 pm; revised again 10:02 pm. Update I & II (below). You have probably heard of …
Violence is Not Power: Meditations on Obama’s Second Term
Revised 1/7/12, 3:25 pm. Pervasive violence is the ever-louder siren of the U.S. state’s impotence. It is the beacon of …
The Deaths of Innocents: How to Understand “Collateral Damage”
Today, TransEx guest blogger Robert Prasch weighs in on the moral debate over the ethics of US-led drone strikes and …
School Massacres and Collateral Damage: Why the Double Standards?
Revised Version. Updated 12/29/12 (below). One of the predominant responses to my piece–about the amplified coverage of children killed by …
Statelessness, Renditions and Making Examples of Muslims: The Case of Mahdi Hashi
The world found nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human. –Hannah Arendt (1951) When President Obama famously signed …
Then They Came For Me: The Futility of the Neimoller Argument
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they …
Newtown, CT: The Culture of Terror and the Failure of the National Security Agenda*
Yet again. Yes, again. Another heinous massacre in Newtown, CT. When I read of the details on Friday, I didn’t …
Saving Afghan Women? NDAA 2013 Exploits Feminism to Justify Western Imperialism
Recently, the US Senate passed a measure designed to increase security for Afghan women as America gets ready to leave …
Safe States: Safe for Whom?
It’s Halloween. And the political climate is terrifying. Democrats try to assuage their increasing anxieties over Matt Stoller’s, David Sirota’s, …
Emily Hauser’s Disgusting Indifference to Women of Color
Update I & Update 2: Below On yesterday’s on-line “HuffPo Live Debate” on supporting Obama, between Daniel Ellsberg, Daily Beast …
GiTMO Tribunals: Righteous Reasons to Abandon the US Constitution?
After my last post, Thomas Drake, a former NSA official, pointed out that the circus of the Guantanamo Bay show-trials …
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Increased Privacy, and National Security: The Guantanamo Bay Spectacle
Update (below): I wonder what goes through the minds of the prosecutors and Army Judges involved in the 9-11 staged …
