As a desperate Qaddafi threatens suicide attacks on European capitals, signs of a split emerge in the rebel National Transitional Council—raising fears of a widening of the civil war even after the dictator falls.
As participants in the Gaza flotilla return to the US, their ships impounded by the Greek coast guard, Israel and the blockade-busters are waging a propaganda war to spin the affair before world opinion.
Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US has established contact with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood—just as the organization has broken with the protest movement and closed ranks with the ruling military council.
A driver’s license is a license to kill. James Bond has nothing on NYC auxiliary cops. From MyFoxNY, July 3: Officer Identified In Police Van Incident The driver of the auxiliary police van who accidentally hit a [sic] killed a… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
White House plans to draw down the 30,000 “surge” troops in Afghanistan come with a Pentagon program to expand an anti-Taliban self-defense militia force by 30,000—including former insurgents who share the Taliban ideology.
We sure hope not, but this isn’t looking too good. From AP, June 26: BROWNVILLE, Neb. — A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were… Read moreFukushima on the Missouri?
The Obama administration argues that the bombardment of Libya does not constitute "hostilities," to weasel out of the War Power Act restrictions—while anti-war commentators ignore the fact that Libya's rebels avidly support the bombing.
As the new UN climate summit opens in Bonn, advocates of the hubristic “geo-engineering” agenda appear to have won the ear of some on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The website of the Libyan Youth Movement reports that members of the Libyan community in Los Angeles were barred entry to an ANSWER event on Libya featuring Cynthia McKinney, on grounds that they “seemed like they may cause trouble.”
From the NY Daily News, June 17: 91-year-old Brooklyn man Milton Levine killed in hit-and-run A callous driver struck a 91-year-old man on a Brooklyn street Thursday – and sped away after he saw the victim hit the ground, sources… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
We noted last year the FBI raids on activists in the midwest over their alleged ties to the PFLP and the FARC. We’ve also noted the hardline proclivities of federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, whose harsh “anti-terrorist” measures have bottlenecked free… Read moreActivists protest FBI raids in FARC-PFLP case
