http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:54 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:54 [i](This article in the October issue of [link:www.newint.org/features/2009/10/01/blowback-extended-version/|New Internationalist] offers a radical alternative history of the roots of the so-called 'War on Terror'. It's closer to the truth than the story we are told by the US government, no matter w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/113 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:14:16 http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/paper/index.php?article=4267

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed ( http://nafeez.blogspot.com/ )

The conviction of Abdullah Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, in relation to the liquid bomb plot has been seen as a major triumph for British police and inte... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/112 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:07:38 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/oliver-stone/jfk-and-the-unspeakable_b_243924.html

Posted: July 23, 2009

The murder of President Kennedy was a seminal event for me and for millions of Americans. It changed the course of history. It was a crushing blow to our country and to millions of people aro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/111 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:37:21 [i](Last month, I wrote about the attempt by Patrick Fitzgerald to stop the publication of Peter Lance's book, "Triple Cross". Lance saw my diary entry at Daily Kos, titled, [link:www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/16/743373/-The-Wreck-of-the-Patrick-Fitzgerald|"The Wreck of the Patrick Fitzgerald"] ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/110 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:23:58 Well, I guess [link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fitzgerald|Patrick Fitzgerald] is going to have to sue HarperCollins, just like he [link:hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FITZGERALD_BOOK?SITE=AZPHG&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT|threatened]. He says that Peter Lance's book, [i][link:search.barnesa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/109 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:58:27 http://nyccan.org/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/108 Thu, 28 May 2009 22:09:34 ([link:digg.com/politics/U_S_Legal_Opinion_Supports_Spanish_Torture_Probe|Digg this story.])

Earlier this month, US-based lawyer William F. Pepper submitted a legal opinion in support of the Spanish investigation into various tortures that took place during the Bush administration.

Pepper enco... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/107 Tue, 26 May 2009 07:09:33 [link:www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/nyregion/22plot.html|Again]. This is the reality of the so-called "War on Terror", at home. The NSA did not decrypt top-secret missives emanating from a CIA-commissioned, Bin Laden-constructed secret base in Afghanistan, and speedily pass on the info to the correct a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/106 Sat, 23 May 2009 11:11:56 Following on the latest frame-up from the FBI;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090521/us_nm/us_security_newyork_plot_1

It turns out that the British MI5 is even less patient. If you don't play along, you get labeled as a Muslim terrorist. You don't even get to be set-up! Abra-Cadabra! You're a "ter... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/105 Thu, 21 May 2009 22:46:20 Previously:
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18137343/the_fear_factory

"...For all his bluster, Shareef was, by any objective measure, a pathetic and hapless jihadist — one of a new breed of domestic terrorists the federal government has paraded before the media si... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/104 Thu, 21 May 2009 08:46:07 http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13524

May 8, 2009

[b]Why one should think of Afghanistan, not as a "failed state," but as a heroin-ravaged state[/b]

One of the most frustrating features of observing American foreign policy is to see the gap between the encapsulated thinkin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/103 Sat, 16 May 2009 15:22:05 All six parts as playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=96D4AC317D9959B8

On February 5, 2002, Peter Dale Scott spoke to an audience at the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center about 9/11 and his early analyses of what was going on... at the time. Constant readers (like myself) [link:pet... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/102 Wed, 13 May 2009 17:51:56 [link:digg.com/politics/Israeli_Avraham_Burg_Gets_Tough_on_Israel_at_Georgetown_U|(Digg it.)]

On March 25th, the BBC brought its lively "debate" TV program [i]The Doha Debates[/i] to Washington's Georgetown University, to tape an episode called "Time to get tough on Israel".

The format consist... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/101 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:26:58 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_find_active_superthermite_in_WTC_0404.html

A team of nine scientists have unearthed startling data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples we... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/100 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:42:13 There is a fundamental misconception about the role of "intelligence agencies", like the CIA;

[div class=excerpt]"The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or suppor... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/99 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:02:27 "The very idea that I can be seriously discussed as a terrorist, when I'm sitting under Big Ben in the British Parliament, and touring the United States... doesn't that strike people in Canada as just crazy?" - George Galloway.

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=1078395287

The ripples of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/98 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:07:56 March 24, 2009
[link:peterdalescott.net/|Peter Dale Scott] and [link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hamburg|Dan Hamburg]

On 9/11 the Bush administration declared a State of Emergency (SOE), which was formally proclaimed on September 14, 2001, and extended by Bush repeatedly thereafter, most recent... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/97 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:17:21 This is ridiculous. Galloway is a peace activist, not a terrorist. Please also check out his audio interview with the Ottawa Citizen;
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/British+denied+entry+threatens+Harper+government/1410365/story.html

and coverage by the Israeli paper, Ha'aretz;
http://haaretz... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/96 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:51:56 With President Obama digging in, in Afghanistan, it's important to take a breath, and review some problems that have been created and inflamed by U.S. intervention in that country. Particularly, the drug problem.

Please take 10 minutes to watch this first segment from "An Unholy Alliance", to get... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/94 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:53:52 http://www.911blogger.com/node/19540

[b]BUSH LEAGUE JUSTICE:
Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta
To Be Tried For International Crimes?[/b]

by Anthony J. Hall

Professor of Globalization Studies - University of Lethbridge

[b]George W. Bush and Omar al-Bashir[/b]

Seri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/95 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:45:50 [i](James Bamford has done another great deed for the public by revealing the extent of the NSA's wiretapping on U.S. soil, and how the NSA sub-contracts the vast majority of its work to Israeli high-tech firms bristling with "former" Israeli military intelligence agents, and in the case of Verint, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/93 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:05:05 http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9788

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20508.htm

http://www.straight.com/article-157265/gwynne-dyer-south-ossetia-was-monumental-miscalculation-georgia

Gwynne Dyer: Georgia's huge South Ossetia mistake

"The chronology tells ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/92 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:12:31 From the Dept. of Say [i]What?[/i]

[div class=excerpt][link:www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/030407/7data.b.htm|Cyc-ing out the terrorists]

Posted 3/30/03

Only sheer brilliance or a crystal ball could foretell the next terrorist attack, right? Nope, says the inventor of [b]a computer ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/91 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:21:39 Digg it: http://digg.com/arts_culture/CNN_v_MLK_a_video_critique

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of MLK, CNN released a documentary this year called [i]Eyewitness to Murder[/i], which is also the flagship episode of Soledad O'Brien's "Black in America" series.

At the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/90 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:05 [link:www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2008/071808e.html|'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies]

By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern - July 19, 2008 - consortiumnews.com

[i]One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn’t mean it to be funny, but his testimony on Thursday before th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/reprehensor/89 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:27:39