From the Dept. of Say What? Posted 3/30/03 Only sheer brilliance or a crystal ball could foretell the next terrorist attack, right? Nope, says the inventor of a computer program that predicted anthrax might be sent through the mail six months before it happened. Cyc (as in encyclopedia), a project that is now part of the Pentagon's research on sniffing out terrorist plots, comes up with scenarios that could help focus screening efforts. It works by applying common sense to an extensive knowl...

Digg it: (Link) To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of MLK, CNN released a documentary this year called Eyewitness to Murder, which is also the flagship episode of Soledad O'Brien's "Black in America" series. At the beginning of the episode, Soledad tells us that CNN will try to tell us the "full story" of the MLK assassination. Not even close. I picked four of the most egregious moments from the "documentary" to show how biased the presentation is; how CNN severely ch...

By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern - July 19, 2008 - consortiumnews.com One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn’t mean it to be funny, but his testimony on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee might strike one as hilarious, were it not for the issue at hand — torture. Ashcroft is the Attorney General who approved torture before he disapproved it, but committee members spared him accusations of flip-flopping. He explained that he initially blessed t...

Last night, after Kucinich was done introducing his latest impeachment article, he made some time in his busy media schedule to answer some questions on various topics, from Continuity of Government to Whistleblower protection, with representatives from 911truth.org and myself. You can hear the entire Q & A here; (Link) - If the putfile stream doesn't play for you, here is a 4.6 MB MP3 download; (Link) Here are the questions we asked, (there is more information in the audio, including a little ...

All 5 parts here: (Link) British author Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed deconstructs the establishment version of "al Qaeda" and thus, the "War on Terror", recorded on July 23, 2005. According to Ahmed's careful scholarly research, published in two volumes, , 2002, and , 2006. His work has won the praise of , among others. This BookTV segment focuses on Ahmed's research for "The War on Truth", approx. 50 minutes. See also: .

June 17, 2008 - Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel endorses the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative on Democracy Now! (Link) Digg: (Link)

(Link) Dennis Kucinich is calling for the impeachment of President Bush. The former presidential candidate and Ohio congressman accuses the president of misleading the American public into the Iraq war. The resolution contains thirty-five articles, including: Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false cause for war against Iraq, providing immunity for criminal contractors in Iraq, imprisoning children, creating secret laws, and spying on American citizens without a court order...

Ex-CIA analyst, Mel Goodman outlines failings of the Commission, including lack of accountability, conflicts of interest of the Commissioners, "balanced partisanship", a lack of prior Intelligence experience on the part of the Commission members, and a quick history of earlier Intelligence Commissions. - July 22nd, 2005. Continues here: (Link) ( Entire Congressional Briefing here: (Link) )

Article XXXV ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OF 911 FIRST RESPONDERS In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed", has both persona...

Article XXXIV OBSTRUCTION OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully execu...

Article XXXIII REPEATEDLY IGNORED AND FAILED TO RESPOND TO HIGH LEVEL INTELLIGENCE WARNINGS OF PLANNED TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE US, PRIOR TO 911 In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of ...

Today, (June 10, 2008), Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson (R) brought a hunger striker who is protesting on a daily basis in front of McCain's Phoenix office to the Arizona State Senate. Yes, he is a 9/11 Truther, but, his strike is against the 9/11 wars, just as much as it is a call for a new 9/11 investigation.

"In his Elysee Palace, asked bluntly, "Why does Israel need a nuclear reactor at all?" Ben-Gurion promised it would only be for peaceful uses, and that no facility for removing weapons-grade plutonium would be added at Dimona." p.72 "The words "truth" and "atomic" never went together in Israel. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion had told President Kennedy at the White House in 1961 that the Jewish state was working on nuclear power but not on a bomb. Washington was not buying that story." p.195 "Mord...

This is Part 1 of 2. Part 2 is here: (Link) Vidal: "9/11 was a coup d'etat in which the American government was overthrown. And in no time at all with that crazy little Attorney General we had, Gonzales... everything he did while Attorney General was to make legal, every illegality, and every breach of the Constitution that Bush had in mind... or Cheney had in mind... And Cheney is a devotee of torture and all sorts of undesirable things, but he's got away with it because our media is so corrup...

By Ray McGovern May 19, 2008 Dear Admiral Fallon, I have not been able to find out how to reach you directly, so I drafted this letter in the hope it will be brought to your attention. First, thank you for honoring the oath we commissioned officers take to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. At the same time, you have let it be known that you do not intend to speak, on or off the record, about Iran. But our oath has no expiration...

A 45 minute interview with on the state of elections in the USA. Hosted by . Windows Putfile stream: (Link) MP3 D/L (no commercials - 20MB): (Link) Talks a bit about his new book, and the dangers of digital voting. Well worth the listen.

Part 2 of this video is here: (Link) "This is a regime whose leaders are capable of anything. They're capable of stealing elections. They're capable of lying us into a war. They're capable of letting a whole major U.S. city drown... and then do nothing about it, to this very day. They're capable of outing a crucial CIA officer who was tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction that were headed for the United States. What is it that they would not do? Now, I don't say this because I want people to f...

This is my take on the Palfrey situation. I want to say that I do indeed think it's "possible" that this was a legitimate suicide. That said, there has been a long string of really un-normal suicides over the past 10 or so years that cannot simply be ignored, with a big fat uptick in the post-9/11 universe. This is why so many people are lifting an eyebrow over this one. Is this the USA or the USSR? What the hell is going on here? Listen carefully to what Palfrey says in the audio, it seems v...

Connections were never severed with the Arab Foreign Legion that was founded in Afghanistan, and despite a , the U.S. recruited and trained the "Arab Afghans" through the CIA and other military and Western intelligence proxies and allies. (I used to have some respect for Milt Bearden, but he is clearly lying on that web-page. Perhaps Steve Coll was more accurate in his portrayal of the old Bearden than we know.) Control of the Arab Afhgans and thus, "al-Qaeda", continued unsevered throughout th...

The Figure 4, the Flying Suplex, the Full Nelson... oh yeah!

(Image) The State Seal in the Memphis Courtroom James Earl Ray was effectively exonerated of the assassination of MLK, Jr. by Dr. William F. Pepper in a trial at The Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, 30th Judicial District at Memphis, in 1999. The trial, "Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King III, Bernice King, Dexter Scott King and Yolanda King Vs. Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators", is commonly called "the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial" and is re...

Digg: (Link) Transcript of the entire briefing and submitted documents here: (Link) In the wake of Philip Shenon's best-seller, "The Commission", comes another wave of Americans snapping out of a media-induced trance. On another front, to a different audience, Willie Nelson is waking up another sector of the sleepwalking masses with his skepticism. Whatever route you took that made you take a second look at 9/11, welcome... and, you've got some catching up to do. If Shenon's book was your int...

(Link) In the video linked above, former Berkeley professor identifies what he thinks is the real problem in this country, the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. Filmed January 26, 2008 in Santa Cruz, CA.

Press Release: For Immediate Release - February 4, 2008 September 11th Advocates Comment on the Impending Release of Philip Shenon's Book The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation February 4, 2008 Philip Shenon's new book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11Investigation, serves to justify our suspicions and the concerns of the , that we attempted to publicly air during the course of the 9/11 Commission's tenure. One of the most egregious revelations pu...

( One minor nitpick, Zbig says the CIA approached Carter with the covert plan to start operations in Afghanistan in 1979, after the ball got rolling, Zbig got behind the effort, : (Link) Then again, according to Joseph Trento, Zbig is CIA anyhow, so perhaps the point is moot: (Link) ) Here's my blog on the JCIT, and the year 1979 in particular; (7/28/2007) Recent research by authors Nafeez Ahmed, and Diana Ralph, points to the year 1979 as a turning point for Western policy that on the one ha...

(Another excellent Rolling Stone piece that was posted last week. There appears to have been a bit of a sea-change in the editorial dept. at RS, and I applaud it! - rep.) A history of the Bush administration's most dubious terror scares — and the headlines they buried by TIM DICKINSON - Jan 22, 2008 "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. There were times when some people in the administration were really aggressive about raising the threat level, and we said, 'For that?!'...

In a long-overdue exposé on the so-called "war on terror" on the homefront, RS writer Guy Lawson exposes the FBI, JTTFs, and CIA covert operatives as being overly eager to hype the threat of "homegrown terrorism" in the United States. In most cases that he examines, Federal agents are actually the most enthusiastic "terrorists" in suspected terror cells, supplying inspiration, physical means, and ideas that make potential plots even remotely plausible. When plots are completely outside the means...

"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" - John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 484 pages. The Israel Lobby is a book that came about due to the ferocious reaction that the original essay, "The Israel Lobby", generated when it was published by The London Review of Books in . Mearsheimer and Walt tackle a contentious issue; the level of influence that groups who campaign for Israel's national interest have on the Congress (and Senate) of the United States,...

opens with the silhouette of a mujahidin firing a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile at the movie audience. Unfortunately for the target audience, the rocket being fired at them is tipped with "Grade A" U.S. Government-Approved Propaganda. Admittedly, the mujahidin did use SAMs in their battles against the Soviet army, so the film-makers did get that right. Charlie Wilson is portrayed as a womanizer and a boozehound, and they got that right, too. Ultimately, however, the film is based on...

by , January 9, 2008 The Pentagon's version of the encounter in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday morning, involving U.S. Navy warships and Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrol boats is, at the very least highly suspicious. On Tuesday, the Navy released video footage and an audiotape to back its claims that the Iranian boats acted in a threatening and provocative manner, but neither the video nor the audio are particularly convincing as proof that Iran had hostile intentions. The video, which show...