Juan Cole bring his informed opinion to bear on today’ headline story about car-bomb attacks against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The morning news showed Benjamin Netanyahu stating with … [Keep reading >>]
“A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according … [Keep reading >>]
Iran is insisting that the enormous blast at a military base which killed Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, founder of the Iranian missile program, along with 16 others, was an accident, occurring during a … [Keep reading >>]
“In the document he posted online,Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a Labor Party camp, showed that he had … [Keep reading >>]
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From internet postings by the man captured at the Norwegian youth camp, with guns in his hands, Anders Behring Breivik, 32, seems to be a committed right-wing, virulently anti-immigrant, … [Keep reading >>]
Lead editorial in NY Times:
Osama bin Laden had been dead only a few days when House Republicans began their efforts to expand, rather than contract, the war on terror. Not … [Keep reading >>]
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The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the … [Keep reading >>]
How strange the human mind. Two groups of people, united in their absolute belief in symbols, incite hatred for the other. Here you have a collection of stories and instructions … [Keep reading >>]
Just as there was a rush to think that Jared Loughner’s mind-set might have been connected to wildly acrimonious radio and TV personalities, so there was a counter rush from … [Keep reading >>]
Pesident Obama made an off-hand joke last night in his State of the Union address, while promising high-speed rail. It would be faster than airplanes for some trips, he said, … [Keep reading >>]
Dave Niewert does it once again in his on-going tracking of right wing militia violence
Terrorism directed at ‘liberal’ and ‘government’ targets since July 2008: An interactive map
Here’s just the beginning … [Keep reading >>]
Oh boy, this idea will travel like dead-skunk-in-the-road smell right across the Atlantic in no time at all. Look for the GOPeas to introduce it within days of taking over … [Keep reading >>]
