A large Israeli army campaign is taking social media by storm. The installed aim of what is known as the "#Untie_Our_Hands" initiative is the desire to kill, with no accountability, more Palestinian protesters at the Gaza fence.
Shortly before 9/11 the National Security Agency (NSA) asked Thomas Drake to join its senior staff. As things turned out, Sept. 11 was his first day on the job. Already au courant with key NSA programs via his earlier contract work, Tom was immediately tasked to find out how much information NSA had on terrorist … Continue reading "Plenty of Intelligence To Prevent 9/11"
Washington’s sole success in the 9/11 wars was Afghanistan. Barely two months after the destruction of the Twin Towers and strike on the Pentagon, U.S. forces had wrecked al-Qaeda and defeated the Taliban. With a little more effort, Osama bin Laden might have been captured during the battle at Tora Bora; with a little more … Continue reading "9/11: The War On Terror Wasn’t Supposed To End This Way"
Much ink has been spilled on the cause of our current American malaise. Immigration, race, integration, and economics have been bandied about as causes for our current political strife. However, all of these are insufficient to explain our current political and cultural turmoil. More than any other single factor, the economic, geographic, and racial disparities … Continue reading "Bear Any Burden: Military Sacrifice and Rise of American Populism"
U.S. war crimes in the so-called War on Terror were back in the spotlight Tuesday as pretrial hearings for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants resumed at Guantánamo Bay, with a lawyer for one of the men asserting that a “continuing cover-up” of CIA torture is the reason none of the suspects … Continue reading "CIA Torture Cover-Up Still Looms Over 9/11 Trials at Guantánamo"
A Turkish soldier was among 23 people killed across Iraq.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Women writers on peace and war Marguerite Steen: The wreckage of the wars ==== Marguerite SteenFrom The Sun Is My Undoing His qualities of leadership would have made a fine officer, whose men would have followed him to the devil. […]
20 years after 9/11, focus has shifted to domestic terrorism under heading of #CERTUNREST2021 on eve of September 18 threat; On January 4 conference call, security officials were warned of danger of “mass casualty event” on Capitol Hill; so why so little action to defend counting of electoral votes? DoJ seeks rollback for unconstitutional Texas [...]
End The Damn Wars had a rally in D.C. today. They had excellent speakers, including Scott Horton and Max Blumenthal. The event lacked a good audio system for speakers, unlike the Hispanic festival a block away that had a thundering music stage. Here are some pics –
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by Judith Curry A few things that have caught my eye these past several weeks. Regional imprints of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [link] A deadly summer in Africa [link] **Abrupt Common Era hydroclimate shifts drive west Greenland … Continue reading →
