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Architecture of the National Security State
Introduction What we are witnessing in the United States today is not a series of isolated policy excesses or unfortunate “overreaches,” but the maturation of a coherent architecture of repression — a national security state that fuses intelligence, policing, militarization, and ideological discipline into a single system of control. This system is not reactive; it […]
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Bad Math
The bombed remains of automobiles with the bombed Federal Building in the background, April 19, 1995. Sometimes we see pictures of ourselves from a decade or three back and think, what was going through their head? In other circumstances, we don’t have to wonder. We know. It happens to writers a lot. It’s often our […]
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DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture
There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA. — Chilean intelligence officer, remarks to a US military attaché, 1974 Decree 521 of the Chilean government of June 18, 1974, was a chilling moment in the country’s convulsed history. With the state now in the pathologically disturbed hands of a military dictatorship […]
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