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How phony fear of US jihadis obscures the real threat of far-right terror

Matthew Harwood for TomDispatch: From the surveillance of American Muslim communities to FBI-manufactured plots, US criminal justice reveals an ugly prejudice

Published: 10 Jul 2013

Published: 10 Jul 2013

Why bringing back the draft for military service would be a disaster

Matthew Harwood: Aside from conscription violating citizens' freedom from state servitude, what havoc might a bloated US military wreak?

Published: 11 Jul 2012

Published: 11 Jul 2012

Obama's cowardly Martin Luther King dedication

Matthew Harwood: The president's incomplete dedication to King demonstrates how far removed he is from the man he was honoring

Published: 20 Oct 2011

Published: 20 Oct 2011

Norway's corrective to our post 9/11 terror myth

Matthew Harwood: A fixation with the jihadist threat makes Americans blind to the insidious menace of a rightwing extremist like Anders Breivik

Published: 26 Jul 2011

Published: 26 Jul 2011

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James Powers and the murky world of 'Top Secret America'

Matthew Harwood: A surveillance scandal in Pennsylvania has lifted the lid on corruption and waste in the US's private intelligence industry

Published: 28 Sep 2010

Published: 28 Sep 2010

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America's paranoid religious right

Matthew Harwood: The Call 2 Fall movement captures the mood among Christian nationalists – that God is punishing America for its sinful ways

Published: 7 Jul 2010

Published: 7 Jul 2010

How the US helps al-Qaida

Matthew Harwood: US foreign policy brings terrorism to American shores, costs taxpayers billions of dollars and destroys cherished liberties

Published: 1 May 2010

Published: 1 May 2010

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A Christian militia in America's midst

Matthew Harwood: The arrest of Christian extremists in the midwest shows that the US has more to worry about than simply homegrown jihadists

Published: 31 Mar 2010

Published: 31 Mar 2010

New Year's resolution for Guantánamo

Matthew Harwood: Here's a New Year's resolution for the White House: uphold the rule of law by prosecuting or releasing the Gitmo detainees

Published: 1 Jan 2010

Published: 1 Jan 2010

Jaws of life

Matthew Harwood: Shark attacks are the stuff of nightmares, but without a complete ban on finning, sharks have more to fear from us

Published: 10 Aug 2009

Published: 10 Aug 2009
Culture of fear at the US border

Matthew Harwood: Janet Napolitano wants Americans to stop living in fear. To achieve that, DHS must change its fear-mongering policies

Published: 3 Aug 2009

Published: 3 Aug 2009

Liz Cheney inherits the family business

Matthew Harwood: Dick Cheney has long criticised Obama for admitting America's foreign policy failures. Now his daughter is getting in on the act

Published: 15 Jul 2009

Published: 15 Jul 2009

America's cybersecurity threat

Matthew Harwood: The US is right to improve its cybersecurity defenses. But would it respond to cyber-attacks with military force?

Published: 7 Jun 2009

Published: 7 Jun 2009

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America's growing surveillance state

Matthew Harwood: The Obama administration isn't just watching rightwing extremists. It's watching us all – and we should all be concerned

Published: 14 May 2009

Published: 14 May 2009

Taking a scalpel to the Pentagon

Matthew Harwood: The US is cutting funding for fighter jets and weapons systems, and finally giving soldiers the tools they really need

Published: 7 Apr 2009

Published: 7 Apr 2009

Who's watching the watchmen?

Matthew Harwood: US law enforcement agencies are keeping tabs on Americans in order to thwart terrorism. But how accurate is their intelligence?

Published: 24 Mar 2009

Published: 24 Mar 2009
When animal rights activists attack

Matthew Harwood: No longer content to target empty laboratories, animal rights groups in California are becoming more violent

Published: 13 Mar 2009

Published: 13 Mar 2009

An unnecessary gamble in Iraq

Matthew Harwood: Obama's plan to withdraw all but 50,000 US troops from Iraq by 2010 threatens both American and Iraqi lives

Published: 27 Feb 2009

Published: 27 Feb 2009

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