Israel has declared Palestinian Laith Abu Zeyad a "security threat" because he is a political inconvenience: a campaigner for Amnesty International who argues and lobbies against the occupation.

When governments deny people political rights, and don't distinguish between political opposition and war, it is a natural step for them to equate "campaigners for some cause" with "security threats."

The Human Rights Watch report on the repression of Israeli military occupation of the West Bank.

Classrooms are a testing ground for monitoring even beyond the level of an Amazon warehouse.

Ralph Nader: *Boeing’s Perilous Bungling Requires New Leadership.*

He also reminds us that the FAA enabled this by rubber-stamping Boeing's lax safety evaluations.

Plutocracy has a general tendency to do this. Compare with what US governments (under Obama and under the conman) have done to drug factory inspections and mean inspections.

Since 1979 at least, US military spending has generally increased. It is now higher than at during the cold war, higher than during the Vietnam war, and higher than during the Korean war.

Americans need to trim that large excess, in order to stop starving the country's needs (along with millions of Americans). This is why some progressives in Congress are voting against the NDAA.