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Obama’s Media Takeover Powers: The Infrastructure of a Police State

Tue, 07/17/2012 - 23:24 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

President Obama will be remembered as one of the chief architects of the American police state. His preventive detention law nullifies due process, leaving citizens naked to the whims of the executive. Now Obama has empowered himself to seize control of all the nation’s communications systems, under the guise of emergency preparedness. “The ‘emergency’ he has in mind is a State of Emergency – martial law.

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“Mo” and “Gloves” Run Amok in Chicago

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 23:15 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Fascist-minded state policies are often executed by likeable, sociable operatives. Chicago police officers “Mo” and “Gloves” appear to have made friends in anti-war circles all over Chicago – with disastrous consequences to some activists. “The two undercovers were clearly among the most gregarious couples in town for the NATO summit meeting.”

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Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy?

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:02 — Dave Lindorff

 

by Dave Lindorff

While methodically mobilizing the Democratic Party’s left wing to politically co-opt the movement, the Obama administration simultaneously schemed with law enforcement to “disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement.” Heavily redacted documents from the Department of Homeland Security show the broad outlines of “a national campaign of spying, disruption and repression against Occupy activists.”

When It Looks and Feels Like Totalitarianism…

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:22 — Jemima Pierre

 

by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre

The Obama administration has spent the last three years building the infrastructure of a totalitarian police state, that “has surpassed the Bush administration’s attempts to expand executive power by crushing the civil liberties of US citizens.” At the center of the repressive edifice is preventive detention without trial, buttressed by various measures that, effectively, criminalize dissent. Clearly, and methodically, “the US government is preparing for domestic insurrection.”

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