America’s drift from republican to imperial law is not new, even if no one has so named it. Now — after the Supreme Court crashed out a spate of preposterously corrupt, end-of-term decisions — it is time.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Imperial Court
Tag: Department of Homeland Security
How Homeland Security Shut Down its Civil-Rights Unit
J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam report on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s closure of its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right on Censorship
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria.
Chris Hedges Report: Surveillance Education
Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon discuss the “ed-tech” systems eroding minors’ privacy rights and discriminating against students of color.
The Homeland Security Campus
Repress U., Class of 2024: Michael Gould-Wartofsky provides an overview of the wide-reaching crackdown on U.S. campus protest.
Destroying Western Values, To Defend Western Values
The “fight for democracy” grows ever-more tyrannical, says Caitlin Johnstone. Now we learn that the U.S. intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the “cognitive infrastructure” of the population.
WATCH: West’s Free Speech Threatened by Ukraine War
CN Editor Joe Lauria told a PEN International conference that press freedom is threatened as the West enforces a single narrative on Ukraine, barring discussion of the war’s geopolitical causes.
UPRISING: Call to Dismantle US Homeland Security
“The very premise of a ‘homeland security’ bureaucracy is chilling and ought to be questioned,” wrote the executive director of the ACLU.
Consortium News’ Record on Russia-gate—How CN Covered the ‘Scandal’: No. 6—‘How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites’
The narrative about Russian cyberattacks on American election infrastructure is a self-interested abuse of power by DHS based on distortion of evidence, wrote Gareth Porter on Aug. 28, 2018.
CN Radio—Episode 3: Gareth Porter on DHS Deception & Bi-Partisan Fear of Revolt
The DHS deceptively pushed the story that Russia hacked U.S. voter databases; and both Democratic & Republican elites fear popular revolt against their failed polices but refuse to change, as Gareth Porter explains.