Man Reports Something to the Police, Gets Put on a Watch List.

Some watch lists are necessary. We need to make sure those who are put on them can find out, and can have a hearing for removal from the list.

The US has a formal policy of privatization of services into the hands of monopolies.

It's a recipe for corruption and waste, as well as for union-busting and low wages.

Private surveillance companies increasingly buy information about system bugs so as to crack their target's computers.

UAE: Repression, torture and Twitter.

Student groups that criticize Israel's occupation of Palestine, or support economic pressure on Israel or the occupation, face a campaign of repression in many US universities. Even professors are targeted.