The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
Category: Human Rights
The Cant About Israel’s ‘Right to Self Defense’
It is illogical to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last 10 months as defensive, writes M. Reza Behnam.
The Right to be Left Alone
Privacy is the most violated of personal rights, writes Andrew P. Napolitano, as government agents evade the natural right to privacy and pretend the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to them.
Craig Murray: Medhurst & the Right to Armed Resistance
It is legal in U.K. law to support Israel’s genocidal and illegal acts of colonial occupation, but illegal in U.K. law to support Palestine’s legal acts of armed resistance to colonial and racist occupation.
Chris Hedges: Thou Shalt Not Commit Genocide
Genocide, the internationally recognized crime of crimes, is not a policy issue. It cannot be equated with trade deals, infrastructure bills, charter schools or immigration. It is a moral issue.
SCOTT RITTER: A Farewell to Truth
The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
When Presidents Kill
History is littered with examples of tyrants using the powers of the state to kill for no moral purpose, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Scott Ritter: The FBI’s Raid on Peace
Maybe the F.B.I. thought I would be intimidated by the raid, and opt to remain silent out of fear of generating unwanted attention. But all it really accomplished that day was to execute a raid on peace, the author says.
Journalists Demand Blinken Back Israel Arms Embargo
Today, 113 journalists, 7 press freedom groups and 20 news outlets accused the U.S. secretary of state of being “complicit in one of the gravest affronts to press freedom today” in Gaza.
The FBI ‘Visits’ Scott Ritter
Andrew P. Napolitano on the Patriot Act’s destruction of the Fourth Amendment wall between law enforcement and spying.