Former inmates at Guantanamo have previously testified that songs from AC/DC, Britney Spears, the Bee Gees and Sesame Street were played as part of a psychological onslaught. A jingle for a cat food and the theme tune for Barney, a dinosaur children’s television character, were also pumped into cells in the facility in Cuba. Thomas [...]

The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that. And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote [...]

“I wouldn’t like to be in that aircraft.” I recall exactly where I was eight years ago – I was awake, wasting time online (hey, what’s changed?) reading about men of science in the eighteenth century and scouting photos for the Schizoganda project. A friend I had been chatting with on AOLIM told me to [...]

Sibel Edmonds has, by all accounts, been wronged by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. By its own admission, the government of the United States of America has allowed her to be fired from a position, spread libel regarding her performance on the job, and – now – shut down any chance she has at remuneration [...]

The beauty of this new Panopticon is not that it simply takes our eyes off the real war, the real plunder, the real system; it is that it stations a pernicious little watcher inside our individual brains. We become aware that we are under surveillance all the time, and this surveillance constitutes not the one [...]

Notice of September 18, 2008 Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, I declared a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [...]