Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, AlterNet. September 26, 2011.
In their new book, Ratner and Ratner Kunstler discuss Americans' right to protest -- and how those rights are often trampled on by the U.S. government.
A recent article reveals that the work of well-known Islamophobes permeates the FBI's training culture and the internal reference resources available to FBI agents.
A secret probe into political wrongdoing has swept up the point person on the Wisconsin governor's anti-union efforts; will it reach the governor himself?
The widening use of militarized police units effectively nullifies the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of the armed forces for civilian policing.
Activists continue to be arrested, assaulted and otherwise harassed by the nation's police and government agencies for participating in nonviolent protests and other actions.
WaPo reports on the new extent of the surveillance state: Predator drones on the Mexican border, wireless fingerprint scanning and vast databases on its own citizens.
