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A glimpse at what might drive Muslim-Americans to violence
You Tube| What do Americans think of Muslims? The ultimate irony is that Charles Firth and his audience find his questions and the answers he gets funny; Muslim countries get bombed for dumb responses along the same lines by their citizens. End | (Not Continued) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS1sB5d7vw
America Must Do More to Stop their “Home-Grown” Terrorists from Engaging in Terrorism in Pakistan
Contrary to American government propaganda, non-State American-terrorism is being spawned by the recent transformation of deep-rooted latent racism in America into officially sponsored and promoted manifest anti-Muslim bigotry, and the institutional exclusion of American-Muslims from politics, government, and civil society. Apart from intelligence [...]
Et tu, Barack?
The Globe and Mail | By Lawrence Martin The President who betrayed his reform agenda On war, it's Bush/Cheney all over again You too, Barack? Barack Obama wasn't exactly considered a liberal hemophiliac. But given his degree of enlightenment, it was thought he'd at least steer clear of exaggerations and escalations worthy of Lyndon Johnson [...]
Obama’s Af/Pak Speech: We’ll Escalate, While Retreating
Spiked | By Sean Collins | 3 December 2009 A bizarre declaration of war-and-withdrawal In sending an invading force of 30,000 and admitting the war is unwinnable, Obama’s Afghan policy is as dangerously unhinged as Bush’s was. In a much-anticipated speech at the West Point Military Academy on Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced a new [...]
The New Narrative: All Pashtuns are Taliban, all Talibans are Al Qaeda, so Let’s Deal with them like we did with the Native Americans
For more than two centuries, the United States military has been called upon to defeat insurgencies like ... , the Native Americans on the western plains of the United States, ... — U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual The Independent | By Patrick Cockburn | 6 December 2009 US surge will only prolong Afghan war Analysis: Just as in [...]
C.I.A. Agents Going Rogue: Is Erik Prince another Osama bin Ladin?
The Nation | By Jeremy Scahill | 4 December 2009 Is Erik Prince 'Graymailing' the US Government? The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels--not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story's author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to [...]
Shahid Alam on the Daily Times, and the Brown Sahebs Who Rule Pakistan
The Groveling of Pakistani Elites Native Orientalists at the Daily Times By M. SHAHID ALAM “The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of the ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule” -- Karl Marx A few days back, I received a ‘Dear friends’ email from Mr. Najam Sethi, ex editor-in-chief of [...]
Admiral Mike Mullen: “We are losing” to the Taliban
Telegraph | By Alex Spillius in Washington | 8 Dec 2009 Adm Mike Mullen: US is losing war in Afghanistan America's highest-ranking military officer admitted that US forces were currently losing the war in Afghanistan and said they had 18 to 24 months to turn around the Taliban's momentum. "This is the most dangerous time I've seen growing up [...]
The Rise and Fall of Barack Obama: Leads Sarah Palin by 1 Point
Los Angeles Times | 8 December 2009 Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, look what the pollsters just brought in. A pair of new surveys revealing that President Obama is still declining and has hit a new low in job approval among Americans just 56 weeks after they elected him with a decided [...]
Osama bin Ladin: “He’s dead of course,” Says CIA Agent, “No wonder there’s no intelligence on him.”
Time | By Robert Baer | 7 December 2009 Time to Give Up the Ghost on Bin Laden This week the Obama Administration made an unusual admission: It doesn't have a clue where Osama bin Laden is. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that there hasn't been good intelligence on bin Laden for years. The National Security Adviser James Jones said [...]
