Militarism for Hire in Texas

Operation Border Star constitutes what Rick Perry calls the “Texas model of border security.” Since 2006 Perry and Steve McCraw, Perry’s lon...

Border Security is Food Security in Texas, & Public Records are only for Generals

Threat to Texas as presented in Strategic Military Assessment  For those of you who follow border security issues closely, this may seem li...

Hired Gun Comes to Texas

Marina Mendez Ransanz In September the government of Texas released a border security report titled Texas Border Security: A Strategic Milit...

Rick Perry's Border Populism Betrays His Love of "Big Government"

Tom Barry/Alternet For Perry, like most right-wing populists, big government is bad government when it regulates and redistributes. Yet when...