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Double agents and drones

by Paul Woodward 05.08.2012

A successful infiltration of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula by a Saudi intelligence agent with CIA oversight will be hailed in Washington as a major success, but it begs an important question: if the operations of the bomb maker, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, could be tracked so closely, why couldn’t he have been arrested [...]

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Media silent when administration targets whistleblowers

by News Sources 05.07.2012

Edward Wasserman writes: When President Obama addressed the American Society of News Editors convention last month, the real news was what didn’t happen. The watchdogs didn’t bark. No discouraging word from the gathering of 1,000 of the country’s top news people, facing a president whose administration has led a vigorous attack on journalism’s most indispensable [...]

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‘Undercover Israeli combatants threw stones at IDF soldiers in West Bank’

by News Sources 05.07.2012

Haaretz reports: Undercover soldiers hurled stones in the “general direction” of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, the commander of the Israeli Prison Service’s elite “Masada” unit revealed during his recent testimony in the trial of MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash). Barakeh has been charged [...]

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In a Palestinian village plagued by crime, a thin line runs between burglars and IDF soldiers

by News Sources 05.05.2012

Haaretz reports: On March 23, in the middle of the night, an undercover force of the Duvdevan special-ops unit entered the prosperous and serene Palestinian village of Kafr Ramun, reportedly as part of a training exercise. Three brothers woke up, alarmed, thinking the men outside were thieves, and tried to chase them away with sticks [...]

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Iran and al Qaeda: more enemies than allies

by News Sources 05.04.2012

Barbara Slavin writes: Newly released correspondence from Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan contradicts U.S. assertions that al-Qaeda has a close relationship with Iran. According to a U.S. analysis of letters found in the Abbottabad compound when U.S. Special Forces killed bin Laden a year ago, “the relationship is not one of alliance, but of [...]

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FBI: We need wiretap-ready websites — now

by News Sources 05.04.2012

CNET reports: The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. In meetings with industry representatives, the White House, and U.S. senators, senior FBI officials argue the dramatic shift in communication from the telephone [...]

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How the CIA undermined humanitarian aid in Pakistan through the hunt for bin Laden

by News Sources 05.04.2012

Declan Walsh reports: In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the C.I.A. to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani intelligence agents days after the Bin [...]

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The jet that ate the Pentagon

by News Sources 05.04.2012

Winslow Wheeler writes: The United States is making a gigantic investment in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, billed by its advocates as the next — by their count the fifth — generation of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat aircraft. Claimed to be near invisible to radar and able to dominate any future battlefield, the F-35 will [...]

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Obama’s choice

by Paul Woodward 05.03.2012

Vanity Fair shares some of the revelations from Barack Obama’s youthful love life. Nothing here that would interest National Inquirer, but this caught my attention from the recollections of Alex McNear, a young woman from Occidental College, California, who had enchanted the 20-year-old Obama: Obama was obsessed with the concept of choice, she said. Did [...]

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Al-Qaida’s wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds

by News Sources 05.01.2012

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports: Driving east out of Aden, we were just a few hundred metres past the last army checkpoint when we saw the black al-Qaida flag. It flew from the top of a concrete building that had been part-demolished by shelling. From here into the interior, all signs of control by the government of [...]

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U.S. military mutilating live goats in training exercises

by News Sources 04.30.2012

Men gathering in the woods and using tree trimmers to chop off the legs from live goats — it sounds like some kind of barbaric satanic ritual, but in fact it’s a description of training exercises being conducted by the U.S. military ostensibly for the purpose of training medics in trauma procedures. PETA reports: Each [...]

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Video: NSA whistleblower interview — part two

by News Sources 04.24.2012

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Hamas is not against Jews or Judaism

by News Sources 04.22.2012

Larry Cohler-Esses from The Forward went to Cairo to interview Mousa Abu Marzook, Hamas’s second-highest-ranking official, in the first such interview a senior Hamas leader has conducted with a Jewish publication. “Why am I here?” This was not an existential plea to the cosmos. It was, rather, the first question I put to Abu Marzook [...]

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Videos: Obama’s state surveillance system

by News Sources 04.20.2012

National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals he believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion “transactions” — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. Jacob Appelbaum, a computer researcher who has faced a stream of [...]

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How the FBI spent a decade hunting white supremacists and missed Timothy McVeigh

by News Sources 04.20.2012

J.M. Berger writes: In 1990, the FBI began picking up on rumors about an effort to reconstitute a notorious terrorist-criminal gang known as The Order. The group’s name was taken from the infamous racist 1978 novel The Turner Diaries, which told the story of a fictional cabal carrying out acts of terrorism and eventually overthrowing [...]

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New video showing Lt. Col. Eisner’s multiple attacks on protesters

by Paul Woodward 04.20.2012

When video footage showing Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner slamming his rifle into Andreas Ias’ face first went viral, Eisner’s defenders were quick to dispute the evidence. A common refrain was that the clip lacked context, the assumption presumably being that if viewers saw more extended video then Eisner would be exonerated. Well, the context is [...]

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Video: Julian Assange interviews Hassan Nasrallah

by News Sources 04.18.2012

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Video: The oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue – part two

by Attention to the Unseen 04.18.2012

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Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner represents the Israel Defense Forces

by Paul Woodward 04.15.2012

Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the beating of a pro-Palestinian activist by a senior IDF officer, which was seen in a film posted on YouTube earlier Sunday. “Such behavior does not characterize IDF soldiers and officers and has no place in the Israel Defense Forces and in the State of Israel,” [...]

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Video: Bollywood star in U.S. ‘racial profiling’ row

by News Sources 04.14.2012

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MoveOn’s 99 Percent Spring, Obama and the Dems march in lock-step

by News Sources 04.12.2012

“The Insider” writes: In an earlier installment, I noted that eight smoking guns point to the fact that the much-ballyhooed “99-Percent Spring,” taking place from April 9-15, is merely a front group for MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party. More specifically, it is a front for the Obama Administration and the Party’s 2012 electoral efforts. The [...]

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The liberal betrayal of Bradley Manning

by News Sources 04.12.2012

Charles Davis writes: More than three years into the presidency of Barack Obama, it’s almost a cliché now to ask: What if George W. Bush did it? From dramatically escalating the war in Afghanistan to institutionalizing the practice of indefinite imprisonment, Obama has dashed hopes he would offer a change from the Bush’s national security [...]

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Video: The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue – Part One

by Attention to the Unseen 04.11.2012

In an age where the gigantic and impersonal forces of government, military, and corporate power make individuals often look completely powerless, acts of dissent by lone protesters are easy to dismiss. A handful of men and women who dedicated decades of their lives to a 25-year round the clock peace vigil in front of the [...]

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Hezbollah’s strained alliance with Assad

by News Sources 04.09.2012

The New York Times reports: Mazen, a carpenter who organizes protests against President Bashar al-Assad in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, has torn down the posters of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, that once decorated his car and shop. Like many Syrians, Mazen, 35, revered Mr. Nasrallah for his confrontational stance with Israel. He [...]

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