Lost liberties - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/lost_liberties/?source=rss&aim=lost_liberties en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 19 May 2004 14:05:00 PDT The prisoner-abuse scandal at home By Michelle Goldberg Wed, 19 May 2004 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/19/maddy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/19/maddy/index.html?source=rss The stories sound familiar: Muslim prisoners beaten and sexually humiliated by American guards. But it happened in Brooklyn, not Baghdad. Banished from the American dream By Michelle Goldberg Wed, 19 May 2004 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/26/deportee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/26/deportee/index.html?source=rss The Kesbehs were a hardworking immigrant family with a successful business and deep roots in Houston. But after 9/11, the U.S. kicked them, along with thousands of other Arab and Muslim families, out of the country. Now, in a land the children barely know, they wonder why their life has been shattered. A thousand J. Edgar Hoovers By Michelle Goldberg Wed, 19 May 2004 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/12/dissent_two/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/12/dissent_two/index.html?source=rss State and local police are taking it upon themselves to investigate antiwar activists -- and in the computer age, the threat to our civil liberties is even greater than it was in Hoover's day. Outlawing dissent By Michelle Goldberg Wed, 19 May 2004 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/11/cointelpro/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/11/cointelpro/index.html?source=rss Spying on peace meetings, cracking down on protesters, keeping secret files on innocent people -- how Bush's war on terror has become a war on freedom. "This is not America" By Michelle Goldberg Wed, 19 May 2004 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/16/miami_police/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/12/16/miami_police/index.html?source=rss In Miami, police unleashed unprecedented fury on demonstrators -- most of them seniors and union members. Is this how Bush's war on terror will be fought at home?