Rise of the Native National Security Corporation

Native American corporations, led by dozens from Alaska, are coming under fire in Congress for their preferential access to billions of dol...

Native Corporations as National Security Corporations

Native American corporations, particularly an array of Alaska Native Corporations, have become major defense and homeland security contrac...

Native Americans Profit from Abusive Immigrant Detention and Billions of Dollars in National Security Contracts

(Another article in the continuing Border Lines series on the Homeland Security Complex and National Security Contracting.)  The New York ...

Government Contracts Driven By New National Security Spending

Government contracts constitute a mammoth economic sector – more than a half-trillion dollars in federal contracts in 2008 alone, and most o...

Privatizing Homeland Security

Nearly one of three dollars of the annual $42 billion budget of the Department of Homeland Security budget flows to private contractors. The...

Homeland Security Partnership Promoted by New Business Council

Within the defense industry there is widespread talk of a more expansive partnership between government and business. The new partnership de...

The Homeland Security Boom

(Part of a BorderLines series on the Homeland Security Complex.) Color it red. The Obama administration has left in place the brightly colo...

Death in Texas

(The following is an excerpt from a recently published essay of mine in the Boston Review . It is online at http://bostonreview.net/ ) The O...

Immigrant Gulag Larger Than Homeland Security's Detention Centers

The Obama administration is trying to wiggle its way out of the immigration crisis created by the Bush administration without taking any dec...

Talking About Insurrection

Getting into the federal building in Pecos, Texas takes political sophistication – something I was apparently lacking when attempting to ent...