ARTICLES



CLUES YOUR COUNTRY MAY BE TURNING INTO A FASCIST STATE

WHOSE LAND IS IT, ANYWAY? Reflections on patriotism

THE ROAD TO ABU GHRAIB

THE DRUG WAR

A FEW SIGNS OF A DEMOCRACY IN DEEP TROUBLE



AMERICAN INDICATORS: Useful stats on civil liberties and justice



HOW TO STAY FREE: An excerpt from Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual



BUCKING THE SYSTEM: A chart that provides a crash course on how Americans have won and kept their freedoms.

FOOLS' GOAL: ZERO TOLERANCE: How infinite intolerance of some things -- but not others -- is damaging our land

EXTREMISM OF THE CENTER: Most extremism in American politics comes not from left or right but from the center in power. As this article argues, just count the bodies. From the July 1995 Progressive Review



FEMA and "The X Files" -- The strange and scary history of America's disaster relief agency and its role in "continuity in government."

GIULIANI ON ART, HITLER ON ART

THE WANSEE CONFERENCE: WHERE THE FINAL SOLUTION BEGAN

FASCISM, CORPORATISM & CAPITALISM : While much attention has been paid to the horrific results of German and Italian fascism, the actual origins of fascism as a political and economic ideology are not well known. As a result disturbing parallels in today's American politics are ignored.

WHERE DO AUTHORITARIANS COME FROM?

Blacks

HOW AMERICA'S CITIES TURNED BLACK

DC STATEHOOD

DC BLACK HISTORY

MISSISSIPPI SUMMER 1964

Civil liberties

CIVIL LIBERTIES ARTICLES

ESSAYS ON JUSTICE

HOW MUCH DO WE LEARN FROM EVIL

HOW TO STAY FREE: An excerpt from Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual

OF PINK SUITS, GOLF BALLS & CIVIL LIBERTIES - A talk to an upper school assembly

Creeping coup

THE CREEPING COUP

FEMA and "The X Files" -- The strange and scary history of America's disaster relief agency and its role in "continuity in government."

M ISSION CREEP We foretold the militarization of America more than a decade ago

HOW YOU BECAME THE ENEMY

THE CRASH OF AMERICA - In 1995, the author saw trouble coming

EXTREMISM OF THE CENTER: Most extremism in American politics comes not from left or right but from the center in power.

A FEW SIGNS OF A DEMOCRACY IN DEEP TROUBLE

MARTIAL LAW Excerpts from an an article in a defense journal, Parameters

Drugs

DRUG WAR

MARIJUANA

METHADONE

Fascism

THE WANSEE CONFERENCE: WHERE THE FINAL SOLUTION BEGAN

FASCISM, CORPORATISM & CAPITALISM

CLUES YOUR COUNTRY MAY BE TURNING INTO A FASCIST STATE

GIULIANI ON ART, HITLER ON ART

Free speech

LIBERALS VS. FREE SPEECH

Gay

GAY MARRIAGE

Guns

GUNS, SAFETY & FREEDOM

History

BUCKING THE SYSTEM: A chart that provides a crash course on how Americans have won and kept their freedoms

AMNESTY INTNL

Immigration

IMMIGRATION

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A MEXICAN CUT YOUR PENSION?

WHO'S AN AMERICAN?

WHY THERE ARE MUCH BETTER THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT THAN IMMIGRATION POLICY

Juries

FULLY INFORMED JURIES

Patriotism

WHOSE LAND IS IT, ANYWAY? Reflections on patriotism

Rebellion

REBELLION

Spying

LETTER TO A SPOOK

SPOOKS

Torture

THE ROAD TO ABU GHRAIB

TORTURE

Waco

SOME KEY WACO STORIES

Zero tolerance