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...
On this tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here are a few epigrams plucked from Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave, 2003): Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy....
Cassandra Vinograd and Bradley Klapper of the Associated Press conducted a partial review of US State Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks focusing on the sources the State Department “categorized as most risky.” The findings in the report cast further doubt on the...
Judge Andrew Napolitano talks about the lessons learned from 9/11, the loss of liberty and the search for truth: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Update:Transcript of Remembering 9/11: Life, Liberty & Truth Does the government work for us or do we work...
Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense...
Don't forget to sign the open letter to Obama and Congress to end the wars: ComeHomeAmerica.usIN THIS ISSUEMission accomplished in Iraq?Libyan civil war is far from overThe expensive deterioration of AfghanistanTen years since 9/11Israel’s struggles with Turkey and...
The 9/11 attacks are being corrupted into ideological propaganda to serve the nationalistic fervor so cherished by those who want to crowd out dissent and sober thinking. There are lots of reasons for it, but one of the consequences is that people are not able to have...
