Why I Don't Live In Israel
Saturday, 19 August 2006 7:49 P GMT-05
Some people justify Israel's actions by arguing that Jews need a place to go to when anti-Semitism breaks out somewhere in the world. But as Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the philosopher and outspoken public figure, once said: the most dangerous place for Jews in the world is the state of Israel.
Exonerated Cell Phone Terror Suspects Speak Out
Saturday, 19 August 2006 5:19 P GMT-05
There are new details emerging about a Vermont woman’s bizarre behavior that forced a trans-Atlantic flight to be diverted to Logan Airport Wednesday.
FBI: Woman Urinated On Floor In Logan Plane Scare
Saturday, 19 August 2006 5:05 P GMT-05
There are new details emerging about a Vermont woman’s bizarre behavior that forced a trans-Atlantic flight to be diverted to Logan Airport Wednesday.
Teacher's radical 9/11 views raise red flags
Saturday, 19 August 2006 4:55 P GMT-05
According to Kevin Barrett, the US government planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks, the World Trade Center imploded due to explosives set up ahead of time in the buildings, Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane crash was no accident, and Osama bin Laden has probably been dead since 2001.
Boston police corruption case detailed
Saturday, 19 August 2006 2:10 P GMT-05
As he huddled in an Atlantic City hotel room last May with a handful of reputed drug dealers, Boston police Officer Roberto Pulido boasted that he knew how to test the loyalty of officers he was recruiting to help protect cocaine shipments being trucked through Boston: threaten their children.
The Constitution Within
Saturday, 19 August 2006 1:56 P GMT-05
The real constitution is within -- each of us. If the freedom philosophy is not inscribed in the actions of people, no constitution will help.
Federal Pay: Myth and Realities
Saturday, 19 August 2006 1:54 P GMT-05
Many federal bureaucrats are indeed hardworking, but new statistics show that they are anything but underpaid.
Afghan opium cultivation hits a record
Friday, 18 August 2006 6:24 P GMT-05
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels — up by more than 40 percent from 2005 — despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press.
Yitzhak Laor : You are terrorists, we are virtuous
Friday, 18 August 2006 4:03 P GMT-05
There is no institution in Israel that can approach the army’s ability to disseminate images and news or to shape a national political class and an academic elite or to produce memory, history, value, wealth, desire. This is the way identification becomes entrenched: not through dictatorship or draconian legislation, but by virtue of the fact that the country’s most powerful institution gets its hands on every citizen at the age of 18. The majority of Israelis identify with the army and the army reciprocates by consolidating our identity, especially when it is – or we are – waging war.
Asbestos Attacks from the White House
Friday, 18 August 2006 3:56 P GMT-05
On order of the White House, the US Environmental Protection Agency concealed atmospheric dangers around Ground Zero. Tens of thousands of persons will die a slow, agonizing death.
Prescott lets slip that some suspects won't face serious charges
Friday, 18 August 2006 3:48 P GMT-05
The Deputy Prime Minister made the admission during talks with Labour's Muslim MPs on how best to tackle Islamic extremism. During the 90-minute meeting, Mr Prescott briefed the MPs that the police only had enough evidence to bring serious charges against some suspects but not others.
Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the Law
Friday, 18 August 2006 3:06 P GMT-05
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the National Security Agency’s program to wiretap the international communications of some Americans without a court warrant violated the Constitution, and she ordered it shut down.
Lebanese troops deploying south of Litani River, Israel begins handover
Friday, 18 August 2006 3:04 P GMT-05
Lebanese troops, backed by tanks and armored vehicles, have begun deploying south of the Litani River in line with a U.N. cease-fire plan to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, a senior military official said Thursday.
100% official proof: Doubles on 911 at work
Friday, 18 August 2006 3:03 P GMT-05
People might recall that the presence of Atta and Al Shehhi in Shuckums (Hollywood, FL) on September 7, 2001 posed a big challenges to the official story. Their heavy drinking in this bar has been witnessed by many and widely reported in the media. Yet the Commission Report states that Atta travelled to Baltimore the very same day.
William Rodriguez Q & A
Friday, 18 August 2006 3:01 P GMT-05
Mr. Rodriguez has been getting so many questions on different threads that we are going to reserve this comments thread for your questions specifically for Mr. Rodriguez, and he will answer them as he can...
Abolish the TSA, Save Lives
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:55 P GMT-05
Fortunately for passengers, it wasn't terrorists but government investigators who successfully smuggled bomb components through the TSA's checkpoints. Unfortunately, no screener has waved a magic wand since then to turn the TSA competent.
Open Letter to the U.S. Military Tribunal to drop charges against Ist Lt. Ehren Watada
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:42 P GMT-05
So, when Ehren refused to participate in that war, what he did is noble and humane, just and proper. By refusing to participate in Bush’s evil war, he demonstrated that humanity is more important than mere uniform or the codes that it provides.
DEA Snake-Oil
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:33 P GMT-05
The irony of all this is that to the extent that there are terrorists financing the operations through drug sales, it’s a direct result of the exorbitant profits that the drug war produces, which would disintegrate with legalization. Thus, what the DEA officials fail to realize (or not) is that it is their own war that provides the monies to finance the terrorists. It’s just another perverse result of another perverse federal program.
Government refuses to authenticate bin Laden "confession video"
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:16 P GMT-05
In response to the July 10, 2006 Freedom of Information Act request made by the Muckraker Report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the authenticity of the December 13, 2001 Osama bin Laden “confession video” in which Osama bin Laden allegedly confesses his involvement and masterminding of 9/11, the FBI said: The material you requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A).
9-11 Investigative Journalist Harassed And Beaten By Undercover Cops
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:09 P GMT-05
After calling 911 to report a suspicious vehicle with three armed men in my neighborhood, I was harassed, beaten and shocked with a Taser gun in my front yard in Hoffman Estates, Ill., in front of my wife and child. I was subsequently charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault. I was then subjected to six hours of abuse at the hands of the local police.
Austin Pastor Fights to Spread 9/11 Truth in Spite of Newspaper Attacks
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:04 P GMT-05
Austin-based Unitarian Pastor Davidson Loehr has been questioning 9/11 and standing up against the lies of the government's official story for years. He is now known for a February 12, 2006 sermon in which he accused the Bush administration of orchestrating the the September 11 attacks.
Spike Lee unveils Katrina film in New Orleans
Friday, 18 August 2006 2:02 P GMT-05
The four-hour film by the noted black moviemaker is called When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. It got its first showing Wednesday night in the New Orleans Arena, next to the Louisiana Superdome, which became a focus of disaster response when thousands of survivors were stranded there without food or water.
BY THE LIGHT OF A BURNING BRIDGE
Thursday, 17 August 2006 11:05 P GMT-05
My permanent exodus from the US was actually ordained thirty years –- to the month –- before I left for good on July 18th, 2006. It was thirty years ago that my then-fiancée, a career contract agent for the CIA, disclosed to me that “her people” were interested in giving a major boost to my career with LAPD if I would become involved with her “anti-terror” operations that involved “overlooking” (i.e. protecting) large drug shipments coming in while facilitating the movement of large quantities of firearms going out. I refused to compromise my ethics as a police officer and –- as I wrote on page 6 of Crossing the Rubicon – “that has determined the course of my life ever since.”
