The Myth of a Post-Racial America
“How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving…
Category: Talk
Orwell Revisited: Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and,…
America’s New Normal: Mass Surveillance, Secret Courts and Death to Whistleblowers
There is a deep and abiding sense of unease permeating American society. From the IRS targeting politically conservative groups to…
Maryland v. King and the Total Loss of Our Bodily Integrity
As I document in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, our freedoms—especially the Fourth…
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
President Obama’s declaration that “America is at a crossroads” in the fight against terror, a fight that is increasingly turning…
Operation Vigilant Eagle: Is This Really How We Honor Our Nation’s Veterans?
Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians, corporations…
Round the Clock Surveillance: Is This the Price of Living in a ‘Free, Safe’ Society?
Immediately following the devastating 9/11 attacks, which destroyed the illusion of invulnerability which had defined American society since the end…
Bella’s Bed
I recently found myself in one of those arguments that I’m convinced every book-reading or movie-viewing American has at one…
Pete Seeger: Changing the World One Song at a Time
Before the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, Jim Hendrix, Bob Dylan and others, there was Pete Seeger. With his five-string…
Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution
“[Drones are a] game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb—opening up possibilities that were fiction a…