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• The bird and the prisoner

  
  Machetera — Authority: 416
  Gerardo Hernández with bird This is How it All Began - Español By Alicia Jrapko Translation: Machetera Once upon a time, a bird made friends with a prisoner.  Both were incarcerated in the United States and both were unjustly imprisoned for defending Cuba from terrorist activity. This is how the story ...
  4 days ago

• Magwood v. Culliver From Alabama

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 513
  " 30 Years After Murder, Is His Appeal Too Late? " is the title of Adam Liptaks report in todays New York Times. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it is too late foran Alabama man to argue that the murder that sent him to death row wasnot a capital crime when he committed it. The inmate, Billy Joe ...
  5 days ago

• In Fort Hood (just like in Afghanistan), US failure to know Muslims well enough?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in Afghanistan ...
  6 days ago

• Robert Gates and the ‘American Footprint’ in Afghanistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to ...
  1 week ago

• How Many Must Die Before We’re Scared Into A Murderous Outrage?

  
  American Street — Authority: 420
  Answer: It’s time to face down our fears instead. The best news yet in the War in Afghanistan: Obama may reject the military hawks’ plans! Details via Juan Cole. Be sure to click the link ‘Read the whole thing’ at the bottom of his post, for the bigger picture. Before Cole’s post, I’d been writing a ...
  1 week ago

• Extraordinary Rendition, The Story of Abu Omar, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 435
  This post is by guest writer Robert Nijssen who also has his own blog . Abu Omar is an imam from Egyptian origin, who was kidnapped by the CIA from the streets of Milan. For more information on his kidnapping please refer to my original post here . Last week the Italian trial against the involved CIA operatives was ...
  1 week ago

• State to ’spy’ on every phone call, email and web search

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 150
  From Telegraph UKAll telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. antiterrorism laws causing delays for refugees

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 970
  U.S. antiterrorism laws are being applied so strictly that thousands of refugees who fled persecution in their home countries and appear to pose no threat to the United States have had their asylum and immigration applications denied or indefinitely delayed, according to a report released Wednesday.
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• ‘Party of No’ votes against strengthening anti-terrorism legislation

  
  theCLog — Authority: 517
  After eight years of the Bush administration’s fear-mongering, it sometimes seems like the Republican party’s main goal is to scare the crap out of Americans. (Anyone remember the fake-ola “death panels”? How about the Muslim Mafia ?) So, why in the world did the House of Representatives vote along party ...
  1 week ago

• Bill Would Put Screws to American Business

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 531
  Though the attention of most Americans has been diverted by coverage of health care reform, cap-and-trade legislation, and shootings at Fort Hood and in Orlando, at least one other dangerous piece of legislation is creeping its way around the nation’s capitol.  Thanks to a statement from the folks at the American ...
  2 weeks ago

• Massachusetts AG Criticized for Wood v. Allen Position

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 513
  " Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief ," is the title of Matt Visers report in todays Boston Globe. The amicus brief is here , in Adobe .pdf format. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who says she is firmly againstcapital punishment, has drawn the ire of some death penalty opponentsby urging the US ...
  2 weeks ago

• Citizen lawsuits won’t enhance chemical safety

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 476
  Legislation currently under consideration in Congress will allow citizens to sue the Department of Homeland Security if they believe that chemical plants are not in compliance with new regulations . The new regulations — IST, or Inherently Safer Technology — are troubling enough, in that they may actually ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Coverage of Wood v. Allen & Prosecutorial Immunity Case

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 513
  You can read the transcripts in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee and Wood v. Allen , via the Courts website. Adam Liptak writes, " Justices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wrong ," for todays New York Times. The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two cases involving claims ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Dimension in India’s Anti-Christian Violence Feared

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 135
  Concern grows that Hindu terrorists could become more apt to target Christians.PUNE, India, November 5 (CDN) — After the recent arrests of numerous Hindu terrorists for exploding bombs, authorities increasingly view Hindu rightwing extremists as a threat not only to Muslim and Christian minorities but also to ...
  2 weeks ago

• TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL: Spy chief sings the blues

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 131
  TORONTO STAR EDITORIALAre Canadians soft on terror? In the eyes of the nation’s spy chief, Richard Fadden, there’s no doubt about it. The recently appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service fairly sang the ... Related Posts B TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL: CSIS’s changing role TORONTO STAR ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indian Muslims Denounce Terrorism

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 128
  Al JazeeraSome of the most influential Muslim scholars in India have passed a resolution condemning all forms of violence in the name of Islam.The Deoband is an influential Islamic school inspiring tens of thousands of religious study centres across the world, which some say has even inspired the Taliban’s ideology ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wood v. Allen at Supreme Court

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 513
  The Supreme Court hears the Alabama death penalty today.  All briefing is at the ScotusWiki page for Wood v. Allen . " Application of AEDPA to Review of State Determinations of Fact (Wood v. Allen Argument Preview) ," is at SCOTUS Blog.  The preview is written by Tiffany Cartwright. On November 4 th , the Court ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chemical plant security should be based on technology, not politics

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 476
  As Congress considers legislation that would force our nation’s chemical plants to make expensive changes in their processes and technologies, we need to make sure that we don’t cripple our economy just to appease a small group of environmental activists — all in the name of purportedly greater safety. That’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• War in Afghanistan: A Victory of Lies (most of them Bush’s)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  George W. Bush once boasted that the US presence in Afghanistan has ‘given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans.’ To propel the war in Afghanistan, ‘Bush frightened Americans with a bogus nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . . . We have found diagrams of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Saudi Anti-Terror Cartoons

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 529
  The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) runs a selection of anti-terrorism political cartoons appearing in recent Saudi publications. Helpfully, the page includes translations, as well as citations. I find it interesting that the political cartoonists use the term ‘War on Terror’ (al harb ‘ala al ...
  3 weeks ago

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