Just like I said when the story broke. LA Times: Aviation experts cautioned Saturday that the alleged plot targeting John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York would have faced many hurdles, not least of which is the fact that jet fuel does not easily explode. "The level of catastrophe that may be created is much more limited than most people would expect," said Rafi Ron, former head of security at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport. "The fuel that we are talking about is...
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The State of the State of Afghanistan
According to the 2007 Amnesty International report, available online here: The government and its international partners were unable to ensure security and a climate of political uncertainty grew in the course of the year. Armed conflict, marked by aerial bombardments and suicide bombings, escalated in southern parts of the country. At least 1,000 civilians were killed. Poor governance, the power of regional commanders and the impact of narcotics undermined the rule of law and human rights....
Notes on tonight’s Democrat debate
We are doomed to die in a system of Bolshevik slavery.
Ron Paul’s Reading List for the Farsighted
On May 15th, Dr. Ron Paul, the antiwar Republican presidential candidate and congressman from Texas, was denounced by "America's Mayor" in the second Republican presidential debate when he sited the role of American foreign policy in motivating the murderers of 9/11. Giuliani demanded a retraction and an apology for the statement, which Paul refused to do. (For a full account of Paul and Giuliani's clash, click here.) On May 24th, Dr. Paul assigned a list of books to help get Giuliani familiar...
I don’t believe ’em for a second
Yeah, yeah, big scary terrorist plot. Every time this happens, it turns out that the whole damn thing was either made up by the state out of thin air, the idea to do something violent came from the undercover FBI informant or the "truth" was tortured out of the guy. There's no al Qaeda in America. As always, the biggest threat to our lives and liberties is the national government of the United States. Now you know how the rest of the world feels. Partial list of bogus domestic terrorism plots...
Giuliani: Damned Dog
Matt Taibbi's got his number. "Rudy giuliani is a true American hero, and we know this because he does all the things we expect of heroes these days -- like make $16 million a year, and lobby for Hugo Chávez and Rupert Murdoch, and promote wars without ever having served in the military, and hire a lawyer to call his second wife a "stuck pig," and organize absurd, grandstanding pogroms against minor foreign artists, and generally drift through life being a shameless opportunist with an...
Antiwar Radio: Robert A. Pape
Professor Robert A. Pape explains the research behind his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, why Rep. Ron Paul is correct that groups who engage in suicide terrorism can only recruit in the name of fighting against foreign occupation — rather than devotion to any religion, promises of virgins in Heaven or a plot to take over the world — and why our government’s denial of this fact and its policy of regime change puts Americans in greater danger.
Antiwar Radio: Steve Clemons
Steve Clemons, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and keeper of the influential blog The Washington Note, explains Dick Cheney and his neocon cabal’s attempt to make an end run around President Bush and get us into a war with Iran whether he wants to or not, where the ‘realists’ stand, the layers of lower level neocons we’ve never heard of, the ‘news’ of CIA covert action in Iran, Bush’s meeting with the Joint Chiefs and some of the possible consequences if we do go to...
Antiwar Radio: Jim Lobe
Jim Lobe, Washington correspondent for InterPress Service, discusses the situations in DC and in Iraq and how things seem to be playing out: The ‘surge,’ Baker-Hamilton, al Qaeda, Sunni Arabs, Sadr, the Iran factions, the Kurds and the Turks, and the neocons big meeting in the Bahamas and their hopes for sabotaging Rice’s diplomatic efforts.
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06/01/07 – Robert A. Pape – The Scott Horton Show
Professor Robert A. Pape explains the research behind his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, why Rep. Ron Paul is correct that groups who engage in suicide terrorism can only recruit in the name of fighting against foreign occupation — rather than devotion to any religion, promises of virgins in Heaven or a plot to take over the world — and why our government's denial of this fact and its policy of regime change puts Americans in greater danger.
06/01/07 – Steve Clemons – The Scott Horton Show
Steve Clemons, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and keeper of the influential blog The Washington Note, explains Dick Cheney and his neocon cabal’s attempt to make an end run around President Bush and get us into a war with Iran whether he wants to or not, where the 'realists' stand, the layers of lower level neocons we’ve never heard of, the 'news' of CIA covert action in Iran, Bush’s meeting with the Joint Chiefs and some of the possible consequences if we do go to war.
06/01/07 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Lobe, Washington correspondent for InterPress Service, discusses the situations in DC and in Iraq and how things seem to be playing out: The 'surge,' Baker-Hamilton, al Qaeda, Sunni Arabs, Sadr, the Iran factions, the Kurds and the Turks, and the neocons big meeting in the Bahamas and their hopes for sabotaging Rice’s diplomatic efforts.
Damn near funniest thing I’ve ever seen
