In the days before the presidential elections, the US launched an air-strike on a village in Syria. Since then, the US has been bombing Pakistan every few days, with the media paying very little note. Our November Exit Poll was:… Read moreOur readers write: January Surprise?
On the heels of talk about forming an an anti-Obama “underground,” the right-wing talk radio set is now broaching actual secession from the union. The liberal blog Think Progress Nov. 25 posted an audio link from a recent broadcast by… Read moreAnti-Obama backlash: right-wingers broach “secession”
ABC News’ Political Punch blog notes that Samantha Power—the Pulitzer-winning Harvard professor booted from the Barack Obama campaign in March for calling Hillary Clinton a “monster”—has re-emerged as a member of the president-elect’s transition team. Power is listed as a… Read more“Humanitarian” interventionist Samantha Power back on Obama team
From Lebanon’s Daily Star, Nov. 3: Members of Israeli spy ring ‘related to 9/11 hijacker’ BEIRUT — Two men arrested for running an Israeli spy ring in the Bekaa Valley are relatives of a suicide hijacker who piloted a plane… Read more9-11-linked Israeli spies busted in Lebanon?
A typically subtle distortion is at work in this Nov. 21 New York Times story, “Global Forecast by American Intelligence Expects Al Qaeda’s Appeal to Falter.” You have to read halfway through the story before you find out that the… Read moreIntelligence report: al-Qaeda to decline with US power
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Nov. 20 ordered the release of five Algerian detainees from Guantánamo Bay. In the first ruling on detainees’ rights since the June Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v…. Read moreFederal judge orders five Gitmo detainees released
US President-elect Barack Obama‘s pick to run the Department of Homeland Security, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, is described by the AP Nov. 20 as “tough on illegal immigration”—although she has been a skeptic on the border wall, having once said,… Read moreObama: ominous appointment for Homeland Security
On the heels of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s second formal appointment—former Sen. Tom Daschle for secretary of health and human services—appears to be another tilt to the neocons. The New York Times Nov. 20 notes potential conflicts… Read moreTom Daschle: “regime change” extremist
Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video statement Nov. 19 calling US President-elect Barack Obama a “house slave” who had aligned himself with the “enemies” of Islam. “You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand in… Read moreAl-Qaeda disses Obama, invokes Malcolm X
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon acknowledged Nov. 16 while speaking to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child that the US has held 12 juveniles at the Guantánamo Bay prison. The announcement came in response to a study released… Read moreUS admits more juveniles held at Gitmo
Now they tell us. From the New York Times, Nov. 10, links and emphasis added: Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a… Read moreNYT: secret executive order approved strikes on al-Qaeda
Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia Nov. 6 began habeas corpus hearings for six Algerians challenging their detention at Guantánamo Bay. The hearings are the first to be held since the Supreme Court… Read moreFederal court begins habeas hearings for Gitmo detainees
