More sacrifices for the American way of life. From Newsday, June 27: Brooklyn bike rider killed on Houston Street For the third time in 13 months, a bike rider was killed yesterday on Houston Street, leading one advocate to label… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
While federal authorities tilt at windmills in Miami, it seems the real al-Qaeda is still very much alive. From AP, June 24, via the UAE’s Khajeel Times: Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri vowed in a videotape on Al Jazeera… Read moreZawahiri speaks —again
Voice of America reports June 26 that the US will be deploying Patriot missile batteries in Japan under an agreement reached May 1 in response to the supposed threat from North Korea. AFP adds that the US Missile Defence Agency… Read moreUS plans Japan anti-missile base, neo-militarists pleased
Remember how the firefighters, cops and rescue workers who answered the call of duty at New York’s Ground Zero were exploited shamelessly for war propaganda—as if saving lives in New York was somehow the same as taking lives in Iraq?… Read moreNYC: no 9-11 liability
From Newsday, June 23: In a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its patriotic fervor, residents were shocked Thursday to discover that seven American flags displayed outside homes had been set ablaze overnight, including one on a block named for a firefighter… Read moreOld Glory torched in Brooklyn intifada?
The standards for what constitutes a terrorist conspiracy continue to get radically dumbed down. Most Americans don’t seem to care, as those targeted invariably belong to some fringe and seemingly extremist sect. In this case, it appears to be an… Read moreMiami “terror” busts: conspiracy or thoughtcrime?
A Somali cleric who is on the US list of terror suspects was elected as head of the Islamist militia that controls the capital, Mogadishu, and much of the country’s south. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was elected in absentia June… Read moreAl-Qaeda suspect elected to lead Somalia
Kidnapping workers is the latest tactic of the Iraqi insurgents that some on the supposed left persist in glorfying as the “resistance.” On June 25, unidentified gunmen kidnapped 16 employees of a technology institute in Taji, north of Baghdad. Taji… Read moreIraq Freedom Congress protests abduction of workers
Here is the proof that the United States is not totalitarian state. Under totalitarianism, the government spies and collects data on its own citizens, without the formalities of warrants or court orders. In the United States, in contrast, these functions… Read moreBig Brother goes corporate
More scapegoats are hung out to dry, this time in relation to the Hamdania case. We’re reminded of the famous line from Apocalypse Now: “Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the… Read moreFamilies rally for indicted Marines
No “state of emergency,” eh? Just like there’s no civil war. These distinctions appear to be rather semantic. From Al-Arab, June 23: Iraq’s government will impose a curfew in Baghdad on Friday, from 2 p.m. (10:00 GMT) until 6 a.m.(02:00GMT)… Read moreBaghdad under curfew; no “state of emergency”
The Japanese constitution—ironically imposed at US behest after World War II—states that “land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.” Now Japanese warships participate in US military maneuvers in the Pacific. From AFP,… Read moreJapan participates in US Pacific missile test
