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This article reports on the U.S. Army's updated counterinsurgency manual. The manual was prepared with the help of Sarah Sewall of Harvard University and is being emphasized in a publicity push to increase support for the Iraq War. The author argues the tactics recommended take an unjustified toll on civilian populations.

Presents a discussion about the separation wall that the Israelis built through and around Jerusalem to protect them from Palestinian terrorism. Report that artist Yoav Weiss is selling off pieces of the wall over the Internet; Reference to the death of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat; Discussion of the peace process between Palestine and Israel; Reference to a speech made by author David Grossman at the Jerusalem International Book Fair; Discussion of suicide bombings; Election of Mahmoud Abbas for president in Palestine in January 2005.

The article offers a firsthand look at conditions in Baghdad, Iraq, as of July 2004. Since April most roads into the capital of Iraq have been closed by sporadic combat and marauding gangs of looters. Westerners are special targets. Some elements in the resistance are said to pay $20,000 a head for hostages. So now journalists fly in. After fourteen months of U.S. occupation and alleged reconstruction, Baghdad is tormented by a fever of violence, social breakdown, administrative anarchy and economic decline. Lack of security--the central issue--means lack of electricity, which means no work, which means more violence, and so on. In response, Iraqis either cling to a blind faith that the U.S. will sort things out, or they turn to tradition, self-organization, Islam and armed resistance. Bechtel has the$ 1.8 billion contract to rebuild Iraq's water, sewage and electrical systems. Local engineers say the firm has done next to nothing.

Fifteen years have passed since the United States Congress enacted the McCarran Act, formally known as the internal Security Act of 1950. This measure was passed over a strongly worded veto message in which the President of the United States characterized the provisions of the Act as not merely ineffective and workable, they represent a clear and present danger to the institutions. One would expect that over a period as long as this, such a menacing and ill-founded law would have been fully publicized, and that the public would be well informed on its implications. The impact of the Act extends far beyond the Communist Party. The most devastating blow delivered by the McCarran Act bludgeons the very heart of free expression.

Focuses on the suspension of the parliament of Northern Ireland, Stormont. Information on terms under which Stormont was to be suspended; Proposal to transfer responsibility of internal security of Northern Ireland from Stormont to Westminster parliament; Resistance to direct rule in Northern Ireland by militant clergy, Martin Smyth.

The article presents information related to U.S. politics. In his staged interview with six newsmen before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, President Richard M. Nixon argued that it would be necessary to retain forces in South Vietnam until two objectives are achieved, release of American prisoners of war held by the North Vietnamese and ability of the South Vietnamese Government to develop the capacity to defend itself against a Communist take-over. The House Committee on Un-American Activities, now known as the House Internal security Committee is, and always has been, an abomination. The problem has been that few Congressmen are willing to oppose the committee's activities, much less to raise objections to its budgetary requests.

The editorial focuses on several issues related to U.S. political and social issues. The U.S. President Richard M. Nixon expressed himself as being both distressed arid disappointed when the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 51 to 46, joined the U.S. House in denying further funds to develop the supersonic aircraft. A House Judiciary subcommittee has concluded hearings on a measure urging repeal of Title II, Emergency Detention, of the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950.

The article focuses on the report issued by the House Committee on Internal Security. The committee would do well to give some attention to its own internal security, for a copy of the document somehow fell into the hands of Lawrence Speiser of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)branch in Washington. In the name of Nat Hentoff, the ACLU then brought a "class action" suit, seeking to restrain the committee from publishing the list. The case came before Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, a U.S., District Judge for the District of Columbia, who has in the past shown a deep concern for the Bill of Rights. Judge Gesell issued a temporary restraining order. The article also focuses on the Canadian decision to establish diplomatic relation with Communist China.

An examination of basic structural trends at the United States suggests that the disintegration of constitutional democracy is well under way. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon has not initiated these trends and he did not endorse their predictable consequences if he foresaw them. Nonetheless, the campaign plan, which his associates are devising for the 1972 election is likely to aggravate the worst tendencies now current and to extinguish prospects for salvaging the situation. But such fixation on personalities, events and issues tends to blind Americans to structural change and trends. The defense complex and the internal security apparatus are not conservative but rather a radical departure from American constitutional traditions.

This article comments on political developments across the world. The immediate objective of the acts of terror that occur in Palestine is to provoke reprisals. Strong reprisals contribute to the mystique of the movement; they are cited as proof of the commandos' ability to hurt Israelis this in turn this builds popular support. At the moment, the Israelis can, and will, defend themselves; they have a clear preponderance of power. Deceptively billed as a mere "change of name," the newly approved U.S. House un-American Activities Committee mandate clothes the committee with even broader and more substantive powers. The "Committee on Internal Security," as it is now called, is a full-fledged institutional member of the security establishment, with credentials rivaling those of its Senate counterpart.

Even persons acutely conscious of the importance of civil liberties are usually but dimly aware of the existence of the Subversive Activities Control Board. Most Americans have probably never heard of it. The newspapers have largely ignored it. Yet this tribunal may have a more disastrous impact on traditional. American liberties than all the sedition legislation, spy scares, "loyalty" tests and oaths and investigations of opinion that have preceded it. he committee offered its original bill as an alternative to proposals that the Communist Party be openly outlawed. A possible element in its calculation was the fact that its only previous legislative effort had been held unconstitutional as a "bills of attainder," which means that it imposed punishment based on a legislative fundings of guilt.

The equating of the fears of the United States with the interests of the United Nations is the predominant fact which emerges. On whether or not this equation is accepted by the member states of the U. N. depends the future of that body. The verbal attacks upon the U. N., long current, were brought to a climax this fall with federal grand-jury hearings, followed by hearings before the McCarran Subcommittee on Internal Security. To these hearings Americans on the U. N. staff were summoned, as were officials of the State Department.

Owen Lattimore spoke for all free-minded Americans when he launched his lusty counter-attack on the McCarran Internal Security subcommittee. Indeed, he did better than that, for his testimony must have put heart into many Americans who have been cowed by the campaign of insinuation, bullying, and slander conducted from the privileged sanctuary of the U.S. House and Senate hearings. Lattimore is a man, not a frightened bureaucrat. And if his blazing indignation led him into small inconsistencies or lapses of memory, the broad truthfulness of his testimony remains undamaged.

The article presents information on the demand for free schools throughout the world. In Englewood and Pasadena, in Minneapolis and Montclair and in hundreds of other cities and towns, pressure groups have been fencing in the minds of teachers and pupils. Parents, teacher; and school-bond members, deeply concerned over high tension abroad and low morals at home, suspect that something is wrong. At about the same time the Broyles Commission, a little un-American activities project of the Illinois legislature, summoned Robert M. Hutchins, then chancellor of the University of Chicago, to an inquiry into subversive activities there.

By executive order dated January 18, U.S. President George Bush authorized the Secretary of Defense to mobilize up to 1 million soldiers in the Ready Reserve, which includes the Army National Guard. Twenty-four states have set up staff and cadre for defense forces and several have attracted a motley group of neo-Nazis, survivalists, former mercenaries, militant anti-communists and violent felons. In each participating state, the governor holds ultimate command responsibility, though according to a National Guard Bureau regulation issued by Army Headquarters, each defense force must co-operate with federal military authorities and forces engaged in active military operations or charged with internal security missions within the State.

The support for the Israeli Labor Party's "Jordanian option" was at the core of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's 1982 peace initiative as well as Secretary of State George Shultz's recent meanderings in the region. That Palestinians rejected the representative chosen for them was ignored because it was an inconvenient truth. The PLO has to take charge of what is occurring in the West Bank, has to come up with aid to improve the lot of Palestinians living there, must try to speak for residents of the West Bank in world forums and must try to achieve progress in the peace process. But that is an exact description of what the Palestinians in the territories are already doing.

This article focuses on guerrilla rising in Colombia. Celebrated in guidebooks for its gentle weather and lively night life, Cali, a city in south west Colombia, has recently gained notoriety because of the increased guerrilla presence in the surrounding countryside. The most active group is M-19, which leaped into world prominence last November, when its fighters seized the Palace of Justice in the capital. President Belisario Betancur took office in 1982 pledging to end the thirty-year insurgency, and his government signed a truce with most of the eight rebel groups in May 1984, including M-19. But in the case of Palace of Justice, by refusing to negotiate with the M-19 forces, Betancur set the stage for the death of some one hundred guerrillas and civilians.

This article focuses on the four-day hearing on a measure proposed by the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities to amend the Internal Security Act by imposing penalties up to twenty years in jail and a $20,000 fine for giving aid to any hostile foreign power. A separate section would invoke the same penalties for obstructing military personnel or transportation. The bill is aimed at the campus-born movement to resist the war in Vietnam by raising money for medical aid to the Vietnamese, including the National Liberation Front, and at actions to stop troop trains.

Reports on causes and probable effects of expanded political role played by the U.S. Armed Forces as of December 1972. Causes of anxiety among the persons concerned following the expansion in the political role of the Armed Forces; Effect of changes in the speed, range and size of modern weapons on the budget of the country; Involvement of the Armed Forces in domestic insurgency situations.

This article presents information on the war in Ethiopia. The civil war in Ethiopia goes largely unreported. The regular forces of the insurgency in Ethiopia fluctuate between 10,000 and 30,000 men, and by now are in virtual control of the countryside in an area of northern Ethiopia that includes all of the empire's seacoast. Moreover, the guerrillas are organized into a uniformed, disciplined "Liberation Army," the military arm of a disciplined, Chinese-supported, "Liberation Front." The soldiers of the Front are armed with modern Kalatchnikov automatic assault rifles, Chinese rockets and mortars.

This article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. In, a November 3 1958 press release, the U.S. National Planning Association's Special Project Committee on Security through Arms Control warns against "over-optimistic expectations of early agreement" or "gloomy predictions of failure" in the East-West negotiations on nuclear test controls now in progress in Geneva, Switzerland. In his November 5 post-election press conference, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower continued to inveigh against the "spender-wing" of the Democratic Party and voiced with renewed emphasis his anxieties about the growing federal deficit. He declared that "unnecessary spending must stop or the United States is in the most serious kind of trouble."

This article focuses on various political issues related to different countries of the world. The price of overseas military bases is much higher than it used to be. Not to negotiate Status of Forces agreements with the host nations invites antagonism, gives rise to popular agitations and may eventually endanger the bases themselves. Nor do the agreements entirely eliminate these dangers. For several years there has been a trend in some high places here and abroad to foresee a divorce between Communist China and the Soviet Union. Seven officials of the U.A.W. have now invoked tile protection of the Fifth Amendment before the U.S. Senate Internal Security subcommittee.

This article presents information on the political development in Mexico. Following the warning given by henchman Plutarco Elias Calles and his closest alies from exile has created a political drama in Mexico. So far the Mexican government has not attempted to justify its action on other grounds than that Calles's presence within the national territory constituted a menace to "public health." A semi-official attempt has been made to link the Calles group to the criminal dynamiting of the Vera Cruz train on April 6, 1936 in which several persons lost their lives and many more were badly injured. There has been a rash of terrorism in Mexico of late. Bombs have exploded at labor meetings, the home of politician Vicente Loinbardo Toledano was attacked and bombed several weeks ago, and other sporadic outriges have occurred.

The so-called American "Beveridge plan" submitted to U.S. Congress by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has been lying around the White House for some time. It is in two parts. One deals with security, work, and relief policies, the other with post-war planning. The first, a tome of 640 pages, was actually delivered to the President three days before Pearl Harbor. The second, a literary quickie of but 50,000 words, was sent to the White House a year later, on December 16, 1942. Thus one had been on his desk for fifteen months and the other for three when the President finally passed them on to Congress. Roosevelt is a master of publicity, and it is interesting to speculate on his timing.

The article presents information on the recent developments related to world politics. General war may not come within the next few months in Europe. But it is clear that a new crisis is in the making and that the powers are scrambling for positions of safety and advantage. In Czechoslovakia events are rapidly moving toward a showdown. The terms of the nationalities stabates have not been submitted to parliament or officially made public. The trial of the Nazi directors of Camp Siegfried at Yaphank, run by the German Volksbund, marks the beginning of a new stage in the movement against Adolf Hitler's Fifth Column in America. There may be some liberals who will be disturbed by the action of the Long Island jury and judge in convicting and sentencing the camp directors for their violation of a New York statute.

The article presents the firsthand experience of Jim McGovern as part of a delegation of members of the United States Congress to Iraq. I was in Iraq as part of a delegation of eight members of Congress, led by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi. We spent most of our time in the heavily fortified Green Zone, which serves as coalition headquarters. Shortly before we traveled to Iraq we visited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who lamented the mistakes the United States has made post-invasion, including the total dissolution of all the Iraqi security forces. We met with several Iraqi women leaders, including members of the National Assembly, who told us that there was more electricity available in Iraq before the invasion than afterward. The insurgency uses our presence as an organizing tool to recruit members and weapons. The only honest and direct responses I got from any American in Iraq were from the soldiers. They told me they had been instructed by their superiors not to share any complaints with visitors.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comments on an article related to border crossing in Nigeria; Discussion on political culture of the United States.

Presents information on the Security and Terrorism Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. Senate. Role of U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond in the committee; Information on members of the subcommittee; Inclusion of issues related to internal security of the nation in the jurisdiction of the subcommittee; Appraisal of the subpoena power of the subcommittee.

It is rare that a compilation of federal laws published by the government printing office turns out to be a historic document. But the book "Internal Security Manual," compiled by U.S. Senator Alexander Wiley turns out to be a historic document. He and staff have gathered together all laws, orders and directives defining and proscribing treason, communism, disloyalty and subversion. The resulting catalog is an awe-inspiring volume. Its most significant feature is that it contains 409 pages, most of which are filled with laws of the past twenty years.

The article discusses regional developments in America. Internal Security and Civil Rights in America was the theme of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Easter holiday recess. It was the Academy's first venture into domestic affairs in its annual meetings in the past twenty-five years, and the interest displayed seemed. to reflect the feeling that this subject is indeed the touchiest and most desperate of its times.

This article presents information on Austria's international relations and internal problems. Austria is faced with a danger of Germany's remilitarization of the Rhineland which shows that Hitler is determined at any risk to carry through the program he advocated long before he came to power, and part of this program is the unification of German-speaking peoples. And, Austria's unhappy internal situation offers the Nazis an opportunity to do their underground sapping more thoroughly than would be possible if the Austrian government rested on a broader popular base. Hitler's march to the Rhineland completely changed the European situation, especially in Central Europe. The attempt to bring about a similar fait accompli in Austria would seem to be the logical next step.

This article focuses on various socio-political developments in the U.S. The self-confidence generated by California sunshine is well known to those not favored by its rays. But District Attorney Neil McAllister is something new even among giant sunkist, tenderized, tree-ripened California avocados. He proposes to get out a petition to enjoin anyone in the State from contributing to or advocating any form of subversive activity threatening established government. This is euphemism for communism. Some time ago the journal published an article about the hazards of chicken-raising from both a moral and an economic point of view, entitled "Diseases of Poultry-Their Nature and Control." It was published by the Experiment Station of the College of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska.

The article presents information on the problems faced by defense in the United States. Editor of the American Nuclear Bulletin, Herman Oberdorfer became the hundredth inmate of the closely guarded Leavenworth Penitentiary Annex for Atomic Scientists. His testimony before the Senate internal security subcommittee left no doubt that he was guilty of conspiring to publish an article on nuclear physics. Latest developments in atomic warfare created new aspects in the over-all problem of defense in the country.

In 1948, the U.S. Department of Justice published a list of subversive organizations and, according to the press, the author was, or had been, or was alleged to be, connected with most of them. Then, in the spring of 1950, Congress appropriated a large sum of money for the Un-American Activities Committee to prepare and publish a sort of Who's Who in American Subversion. The author belonged to or was on the sponsor list, or appeared on programs of several of those that favored the Loyalist government against Franco in Spain, went through the motions of protecting the foreign-born, believed in improving the status of Negroes. The Un-American Activities Committee never informed the author of the data it had on his subversiveness.

Nazis and others with bona fide fascist records are experiencing little difficulty with the United States visa regulations which are keeping from its shores so many distinguished democrats. It is true that there is a paper barrier against fascists. Art amendment to the internal Security Act of 1950 bars all present or former members of "totalitarian" parties except those who were coerced into joining or were not more than sixteen when they enrolled. But the ninth proviso, third section, of the Immigration Act of 1917, which gives discretionary power to the Attorney General to admit "otherwise inadmissible aliens applying for temporary admission," makes the barrier very fragile indeed.

This article focuses on the United States President Harry S. Truman's new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, which was sworn in February 1951, and its first meeting began, appropriately, with prayers offered by the Reverend Karl Morgan Block and the Reverend Emmett M. Walsh, two of the members. President Truman has granted the commission broad powers and set it an admirable objective. It has complete authority to make a thorough examination of the laws, practices, and procedures concerning the protection of the United States against treason, espionage, sabotage, and other subversive activities and to recommend any changes needed to strike the balance between security and freedom.

In defending the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from the cave men of Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., one unavoidably glosses over the commission's many real shortcomings. Among the most serious are some of its policies in the area of security clearance, the clearance of employees for access to secret material, which is quite different from the loyalty investigation undergone by all federal employees or the loyalty oath now required of AEC fellowship holders. Its extremely narrow and stringent requirements for security clearance press particularly upon scientists.

Even Western Europe is so accustomed to dismiss as "petty" the various internal, if not the external, political troubles of the states of the Balkan peninsula that there is some danger that the significance of the present internal struggle in Rumania will be overlooked. A few isolated cases of violence of language and gesture on the part of members of the National Peasant Party in the Bucharest Chamber during the past few weeks should not lead anyone to dismiss their campaign as merely a move in the eternal Balkan game of abusing the opponent.

There's a fifth column at work in the U.S. which should be investigated by the loyalty board and especially by those who are bored with the loyalty board. This fifth column is operating quite openly and thousands of fellow travelers are getting instruction and encouragement in underground activities from subversive agents who pose as respectable businessmen and are well supplied with weapons and "know-how." It is international in scope. A million well-laid plots are scheduled to break out one after another and it is confidently predicted by seasoned observers that the movement cannot be stopped until it has run its riotous course.

This article presents information on the arrest of Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil and Jean Rigaud, who were close associates of Robert Murphy, former personal representative of the U.S. President in the Algiers, on charges of endangering the security of the state. Lemaigre-Dubreuil was alleged to have been instrumental in arranging the escape of general Henri Honroé Giraud from France to North Africa. However, when the French government made attempts to arrest Lemaigre-Dubreuil and Rigaud in June 1943, it found that both of them were secretly protected by the U.S. administration.

The author argues that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama must guard against counterproductive and irrational acts in its counterterrorism strategy. The author maintains that the lessons of the attempting downing of an airplane on Christmas Day 2009 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are that the best strategies against terrorism are internal security safeguards and intelligence.

The article deals with the weak security and safety measures implemented at nuclear weapon plants and laboratories across the U.S. and how it poses a grave and most deadly internal threat to the country. U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has taken a standard evasive action regarding the security lapses that occurred at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. According to the author, the U.S. possess staggering amounts of some of the most dangerous substances on the planet, a result of sixty years of nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production.

In its effort to escalate the war on thugs, the U.S. administration has become entangled in South America's most intense and brutal counterinsurgency campaign. In Peru's Upper Huallaga Valley, Condor 6, a U.S.-sponsored narcotics control operation, works side by side with a campaign by militarized Peruvian police to wrest control of the jungle region from drug traffickers and the Maoist insurgents of Sendero Luminoso. The state department says that Evergreen's role in Condor 6 is to transport supplies and provide rapid mobility to Peruvian troops. U.S. officials in Washington and Peru are careful to emphasize that counterinsurgency is neither the intent nor the focus of the program.

The article presents information on a wireless message aired by Boris Chicherin concerning the internal and external situation of Soviet Russia. He says that the country is in the midst of the combat and the ninth wave of attack is now surging upon ; a great army has been created, which is formally administered by Czarist officers and is hurling itself in the South. Rumania and Poland serve as a mask for France, while England is using Estonia and Finland in the same manner. He says that Soviet Russia and Soviet Hungary are offering resistance because their powers are the powers of the proletarian revolution, of the Communist dictatorship, which alone can liberate the working masses.

For two months now, the U.N. has been trying, without much success, to hire sixteen plumbers, upholsterers, carpenters, bricklayers, pipe coverer, and masons as staff employees. Most of the organization's maintenance workers are employed by contractors, but these men are needed to make the day-to-day emergency repairs— fix leaking pipes, patch the paint, recoil the springs in the furniture, and the like. But while the pipes leak and the paint peels, the loyalty and security' clearances required of all American citizens employed as staff members have not been forthcoming.

The Canadian government has cleared B.H. Norman, the acting chief of Canada's delegation to the United Nations, of the Communist taint smeared on him by the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee. However, the August 11, 1951 issue of the Ottawa Morning Citizen says that the attack on Norman is also an assault on certain principles for which the U.S. is supposed to stand, and for which the free world is being asked to fight. It attacks the principle that there cannot be guilt by association. A man should be able to attend whatever meetings he pleases, listen to whatever discussions interest him and associate with whomever he desires, without necessarily being considered as subscribing to the views of the persons with whom he associates.

While Americans move to be ready to defend their land, they have already forgotten the land they defend. The actual earth out of which the food grows and forests, which is at least as much America as the people on it. The author does not mean merely to defend a geographical area, but he lacks the faith that freedom for many Americans could flourish in a desert. It does not flourish now in America where the land is too worn for men to farm it in security. War would mean a new wasting, an imperative, maybe patriotic wasting, a wasting nevertheless. The author was only one of those who got the recent letter from the "Friends of the Land," an organization of conservationists, announcing suspension of their activities until other times.

This article presents information on the investigation of loyalty-clearance procedures in military-research projects in the U.S. A few months ago a questionnaire asking how loyalty tests were conducted was sent to leading government, industrial, and university laboratories by the Committee on Secrecy and Clearance of the Federation of American Scientists, whose members include such famous scientists as S.H. Bauer, H. A. Bethe, and P. J. W. Debye. In its first report, the committee disclosed that scientists on military projects have little protection against over-zealous loyalty probers. In a new report the committee presents documentary proof of the brazen maneuvers of the military to keep that fact hidden.