July 2011

Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor

by News Sources 07.27.2011

The New York Times reports: In a further strike against the authorities in war-torn southern Afghanistan, the mayor of Kandahar was killed in his office on Wednesday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban, officials said. The killing heightened concerns that the tenuous security gains in the violent south are unraveling despite [...]

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Palestinian teens arrested by Israelis for playing soccer?

by News Sources 07.27.2011

Mairav Zonszein reports: While Israelis are busy pitching tents across the country, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, life under occupation goes on as usual, far away from the media’s eyes. In the shocking footage below, taken with a surveillance camera last Friday, July 22, Palestinian teens playing soccer in the street are suddenly [...]

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Iranian scientist likely killed by CIA or Mossad

by News Sources 07.27.2011

Reuters reports: Western security agencies were most likely behind the killing of an Iranian scientist in an operation that underlines the myriad complications in the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, analysts say. Darioush Rezaie, 35, a university lecturer, was shot dead by gunmen in eastern Tehran Saturday, the third murder of a scientist since 2009. [...]

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Mike Davis: the coming economic disaster

by TomDispatch 07.26.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com When it comes to the Murdoch scandal, where everyone’s having such a rollicking good time, it hasn’t been particularly hard for reporters, pundits, and commentators to connect a few dots, even across an ocean.  Yes, you can find actual experts claiming in print and online that what’s happening to Murdoch [...]

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Norway gunman a frightening reminder of radical right terrorist threat in the US

by News Sources 07.26.2011

At the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heidi Beirich writes about the ideological trends in the United States that parallel those articulated by Anders Behring Breivik, who rails against cultural Marxism in his manifesto. Fears of “cultural Marxism” have a long pedigree in this country. It’s a conspiratorial kind of “political correctness” on steroids — a [...]

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The Anders Behring Breivik interview

by Paul Woodward 07.26.2011

Anders Behring Breivik’s attorney, Geir Lippestad, says his client appears to be insane. Whether this is what Lippestad actually believes or whether he is simply laying the groundwork for an insanity defense, is unclear. But the idea that only a madman could do what Breivik did, is an idea with dangerous and popular appeal. We [...]

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Norway killer had extensive links to English Defence League

by News Sources 07.25.2011

The Daily Telegraph reports: Anders Behring Breivik had extensive links to the far-Right English Defence League, senior members of the group have admitted. Breivik was understood to have met leaders of the EDL in March last year when he came to London for the visit of Geert Wilders, the Dutch Right-wing politician. Daryl Hobson, who [...]

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Glenn Beck compares Norway victims to Hitler Youth

by News Sources 07.25.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: Glenn Beck, who in June aired his final cable tv show on Fox News, is still on the radio and has found a new way to get his name into the headlines around the globe. Instead of calling the president of the United States a racist, Beck focused on the [...]

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Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world

by News Sources 07.25.2011

Thomas Hylland Eriksen writes: Anders Behring Breivik’s world view seems to have been shaped by online fantasy games and the anti-Islamist blogosphere – a recipe for national fragmentation. There is a reason why the Norwegian police have not been overly concerned with rightwing extremism in recent years. It is plainly not very visible. An estimated [...]

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Some Israelis think Norway got what it deserved

by News Sources 07.25.2011

At The Forward, J J Goldberg reports: The Norway massacre has touched off a nasty war of words on the Israeli Internet over the meaning of the event and its implications for Israel. And I do mean nasty: Judging by the comments sections on the main Hebrew websites, the main questions under debate seem to [...]

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Did Anders Behring Breivik act alone? — Updated

by Paul Woodward 07.25.2011

(Update below.) In his manifesto, 2083 A European Declaration of Independence, Anders Behring Breivik — who will soon go on trial for murdering at least 93 fellow Norwegians — writes: Solo-cell systems in combination with martyrdom is the most efficient and deadly form of modern warfare. This strategy was adapted by Jihadist groups. And now [...]

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Norway killings put U.S. extremists in spotlight

by News Sources 07.24.2011

The New York Times reports: The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the [...]

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From Pamela Geller to Anders Behring Breivik — how Islamophobia turned deadly in Norway

by Paul Woodward 07.23.2011

When terrorism has a white face it invariably gets marginalized in the popular narrative. The lone wolf, the outsider, the sociopath — in many cases these portraits of misanthropic, isolated individuals who turn to violence are quite accurate. The Oslo killings, however, should be seen in a different light since there is a wealth of [...]

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The ‘For Neville’ email: two words that could bring down an empire

by News Sources 07.22.2011

The Guardian reports: Many angry victims of the News of the World’s journalism used to try their hand at suing, and the paper’s battle-hardened lawyers were good at seeing them off. Still they regularly paid out £1.2m a year on a variety of libel claims. But in May 2008, Tom Crone, the paper’s veteran head [...]

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Norway’s Timothy McVeigh

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Huffington Post reports: The 32-year-old Norwegian man who went on a shooting spree on the island of Utoya has been identified as Anders Behring Breivik, according to multiple reports. The Daily Mail and Sky News were among those to report the suspect’s name. According to witnesses, the gunman was dressed as a police officer and [...]

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Ground your warplanes, save the Horn of Africa

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Ramzy Baroud writes: “When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of ‘starving and helpless’ people throughout the Horn of Africa know fully the pain of elderly Somali mother, Batula Moalim. Moalim, quoted by the [...]

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Syria holds massive rallies to ‘support Homs’

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Al Jazeera reports: Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Syria following Friday prayers, activists said, protesting against President Bashar al-Assad and defying an intensified military crackdown on their uprising. Demonstrations demanding an end to Assad’s rule broke out in the Medan district of Damascus, the besieged city of Homs, Latakia [...]

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Proposed law would mandate jail for critics of Saudi king

by News Sources 07.22.2011

The New York Times reports: A proposed Saudi counterterrorism law that would give the Interior Ministry sweeping powers and mandate jail sentences for criticizing the king would effectively squelch political dissent, human rights advocates said on Thursday. The law would allow prisoners to be held without trial, and trials and appeals to be held secretly, [...]

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Norway’s encounter with terror

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Following today’s bombing and shootings in Norway, Bibhu Prasad Routray writes: In July 2011, Norway brought terror charges against Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad alias Mullah Krekar, the founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Islamic group of Ansar al-Islam after he threatened former Norwegian asylum minister Erna Solberg. In media interviews Krekar had said that if he [...]

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State Dept blocks oversight of its mercenary army in Iraq

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Danger Room reports: By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security for its diplomats in Iraq once the U.S. military withdraws. And no one outside State knows anything more, as the department has [...]

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CIA lies on drone casualties exposed

by News Sources 07.22.2011

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Israel’s ‘threat’ to bomb nuclear facilities is central to its Iran strategy

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Tony Karon writes: The reason TIME.com’s intelligence columnist Bob Baer this week found himself cast as the unintended source for “authoritative” claims that Israel is about to bomb Iran, is precisely because what he said had been speculative comments inadvertently played into the game of bluff at the heart of the matter. Bob saw an [...]

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Poll: Majority of U.S. Jews support Mideast peace plan based on 1967 borders

by News Sources 07.22.2011

Haaretz reports: A J Street poll published Thursday shows that 57% of U.S. Jews back a Middle East peace plan based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed-upon land swaps, while 43% opposed such a move. According to the poll, 83% of the American Jews support a U.S.-brokered solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while 70% want [...]

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Roger Waters’ Song for Gaza

by News Sources 07.22.2011

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