By Colleen Slevin, AP Writer

DENVER (AP) ― Many of the Japanese Americans who gathered Saturday to remember the internment of 120,000 family members during World War II expressed concern about what they see as an erosion of civil liberties since the Sept. 11 attacks.read more »

Law enforcement agencies join together for 'anti-terrorism initiative'

By Cindy Wolff

Shelby County Sheriff's deputies arrested 71 people, including 31 fugitives, during a 24-hour street sweep that ended about a half hour after sunrise Sunday.read more »

read more »

Rule by fear or rule by law?

Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers,
read more »

By Matthew Rothschild

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that.
read more »

The Face of Fascism in a Global System Heading for Collapse

"The signs of war on the horizon are clear. The war, like fear, also has a smell. And now we can begin to breathe its stench in our lands. In the words of Naomi Klein, we need to prepare ourselves for the shock." - Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN

read more »

Nancy Levant

Okay, what does it take to declare Martial Law in America? It takes 1) a declared state of emergency, 2) a readied “homeland” paramilitary system to enforce the powers of Martial Law, and 3) one signature of the one person who has the authority to make the declaration.

read more »

by Dave Lindorff

The looming collapse of the US military in Iraq, of which a number of generals and former generals, including former Chief of Staff Colin Powell, have warned, is happening none too soon, as it my be the best hope for preventing military rule here at home.

read more »

THE FINAL PLANK

By: Alan Stang

At a Republican National Convention many years ago, I visited in the Indiana delegation with U.S. Senator Bill Jenner. Bill told me a story I suspect may be apocryphal, but it packs quite a wallop.

read more »

Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack

JEFF KOSSEFF | The Oregonian

WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.

read more »