The US Government has granted status as "protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention" to 3,800 persons who belong to a group, the Mujahideen-e Khalq or MEK, designated "terrorist" by Washington, according to the Czar of American Gulags-Iraq Branch,...
Notes on Chapter 2 of the 9/11 Report
The second chapter of the 9/11 report chronicles the growth of modern Islamic terrorism, specifically the history of al Qaeda. Why Do They Hate "US"? One of the biggest disagreements between pro-war and anti-war pundits concerns the basis of the terrorists' hatred...
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Notes on Chapter 1 of the 9/11 Report
The members of the 9/11 commission claim that their report attempts "to provide the most complete account . . . of the events of September 11, what happened and why." (xvii) I decided to buy a copy and see for myself how well they perform. Chapter One sets...
Entangling Alliances
Regarding our main news story today, Panel: US Support for Israel Key to 9/11 , here is the relevant page in the 9/11 report [pdf].
From the Cellar
Notable lower page news you might have missed today: *We reported earlier this week that Canadian authorities had approved al-Jazeera for broadcast, but the conditions are apparently prohibitive. Will David Frum finally go home now? *You thought MREs were bad...
Madison/Rafah: Disconnect
It was closer than anyone could have expected, but Madison failed to do "something no other city has had the guts to do...form an official sister city relationship with a Palestinian city." A city council member was reduced to tears by "how 'cruel' and 'hateful' some...
God Bless Carlos Delgado
Toronto Blue Jays star one-bagger Carlos Delgado has been protesting the Iraq war by leaving the field during the playing of God Bless America. Delgado intends the gesture as a protest against policy with which he disagrees: "But I think it's the stupidest war ever....
I’ll Skip the Hokey “G’day”…
And just introduce our newest blogrollee from the land of Peter Singer, AC/DC, and Elle McPherson, Tim Gillin, who is, uh, not quite like any of the aforementioned.
Blowin’ Every Time You Move Your Teeth
From Reuters:After launching two wars, President George Bush said he wanted to be a "peace president" and took swipes at his Democratic rivals for being lawyers and weak on defence. ... "The enemy declared war on us," Mr Bush told a re-election rally in Cedar Rapids...
