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Indianapolis Monthly
April 11, 2017
A black box inside one of the nation's most notorious federal penitentiaries, Terre Haute's D-Unit is entering a second decade—and third presidential administration. It's home to some of the nation's most high-profile and controversially confined inmates of the War on Terror. A majority of them are Muslim. With the specter ofÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 7, 2013
Jennifer Van Bergen, author of The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America. “War Is A Lie is an important and compelling book that arrives at a time when America is engaged in its longest running war to date. Swanson offers an incisive examination of the rationalizations, justifications, andÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 24, 2010
Is the State of Emergency Superseding our Constitution? Address to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 23, 2010. In July 1987, during the Iran-Contra Hearings grilling of Oliver North, the American public got a glimpse of “highly sensitive” emergency planning North had been involved in.
Realty Sandwich
October 21, 2010
A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing. Shortly before I was scheduled to leave for Boston I was contacted by a man named Gola Wolfson Richards, “Wolf” for short. He told me he had been following Newtopia and had taken a particular interest in me. He explained that he was a spiritual teacher, and that he wanted to write a bookÃâà...
Coastal Post
January 9, 2010
Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 years along with congressional Democrats gaining large House and Senate majorities. In addition, at 56.8%, voter turnout was the highest since RichardÃâà...
AllGov
July 31, 2009
Federal prison officials during the Bush administration began a secretive program to segregate inmates, most of whom are Muslims, and limit their ability to communicate with the outside world. Known as Communications Management Units (CMUs), these “prisons within a prison” were set up at twoÃâà...
American Muslim
April 21, 2008
The American Muslim has many article collections in its Resources section. To understand something about Islamophobia in America and the West, first read Islamophobia and Arabophobia: Laying The Groundwork - Us vs. Them which includes many quotes that have been made about Muslims, Arabs,Ãâà...
Scoop.co.nz
September 14, 2007
The Bush-Cheney White House is responsible for the birth of a new constitutional doctrine. He has elevated himself to become a judiciary of one. . When the president signs legislation passed by Congress, he frequently adds his own signing statement stating those legislative provisions he intends to ignoreÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
May 2, 2007
Its existence was first revealed in a breaking news story February 16 by lawyer and legal analyst, academic, author and journalist Jennifer Van Bergen in an online article in The Raw Story. Van Bergen reported the CMU is for so-called “high-security risk” Muslim and Middle Eastern (Arab) prisoners toÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
July 22, 2004
The following article was contributed to the WSWS by Jennifer Van Bergen, the author of the upcoming book, The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America. She has been an adjunct faculty member of the New School for Social Research in NYC since 1993 and lectures on the antiterrorism lawsÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
November 27, 2003
Tens of thousands of demonstrators who came to Miami last week to protest the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) ministerial meetings met with police harassment, provocation, and brutality. More than 100 protesters were treated for injuries, 12 were hospitalized and an estimated 250 wereÃâà...
