The Obama cult is going on the offensive, on the theory that the best defense is a good offense, the Obama cult is going on the attack – launching a special web site, and a twitter feed, attackwatch.com, which is devoted to refuting the “smears” being repeated by the...
Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist group opposed to what they see as the westernization of Nigeria, is making headlines yet again. Staying true to its name --Boko Haram means "Western education is a sin"-- the "Nigerian Taliban" has said that it will bomb 18 Nigerian...
Justin Elliott had a good piece in Salon yesterday, which we featured here. But when I went to read it, the subtitle made me laugh out loud. "The president promised early on to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. What changed?" What changed? LOL....
I want to draw special attention to today's Gareth Porter piece, which essentially describes a post-9/11 US foreign policy directly aimed at exacerbating the terrorist threat and convincing the Muslim world that America is against them. What's worse, much of the...
At the GOP debate last night:
Veterans for Peace (VFP), a progressive organization if ever there was one, took the courageous step of voting for the “impeachment of President Barack H. Obama for war crimes” at its annual national convention in Portland Oregon in August. The resolution, which...
Radley Balko, simply one of the best journalists around, has a new piece up at the Huffington Post on the militarization of domestic police departments, especially since 9/11. Unsurprisingly, the numbers show the terrorist attacks served merely as a pretext for the...
Yesterday there were two "security threats" where F16 fighter jets were scrambled to escort airliners after "terror threats" were declared. In the widely-reported "breaking" story, a pair of fighter jets were scrambled to escort an American Airlines jet into New...
The self-absorbed U.S. "commemoration" of 9/11 today was repulsive in the extreme. 3000 Americans died, yes, a great tragedy. But 9/11 was used to launch a war based on lies in which over 1 million Iraqis have died and 4 million have been displaced – who knows how...
Sunday of Week 1. A time when American football fans are used to being asked the question "how 'bout them Cowboys?" but this year those who tuned in were treated to a heavy dose of "how 'bout them multiple, open-ended military occupations?" For the first time since...
