Kurt Nimmo of Another Day in the Empire raises important questions regarding the fallout from Operation Gladio in terms of active assets and the use of such tactics today.
Abdullah Azzam’s name rings a bell. A Palestinian university professor and member of the CIA-penetrated Muslim Brotherhood, Azzam set up the Services Office (Maktab al-Khadamat) a CIA- [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Pro-torture? Scary stuff. Why would anyone not want to set up check and balances against abuse? When it is inhuman, illegal by any standards (certainly in a so called democracy) and perhaps most importantly wont get you the information you want. Unless fake confessions will do just as well.
The Bush administration in recent days has [...]
Continue Reading July 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
According to the Agonist, this played out something like this.
On July 12 - The day it was announced that the July 7 London bombs had been placed by young British muslims from West Yorkshire - Guardian trainee Dilpazier Aslam was asked to write a piece for the comment page, published the following day as “We [...]
Continue Reading July 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone thinks he can waive the incident with nonsense such as ..
“The police acted to do what they believed necessary to protect the lives of the public.
“This tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists bear responsibility.”
Right. But the truth is that people like [...]
Continue Reading July 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Getting strangled by the military-industrial complex.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost taxpayers $314 billion, and the Congressional Budget Office projects additional expenses of perhaps $450 billion over the next 10 years. That could make the combined campaigns, especially the war in Iraq, the most expensive military effort in the last 60 years, [...]
Continue Reading July 23rd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
What can terrorists teach us?
Three new studies, by very different authors taking very different tacks, reach much the same conclusion about modern terrorism: that its practitioners, especially its foot soldiers, are motivated not so much by Islamic fantasies of the caliphate’s restoration and the snuffing of freedom, but rather by resistance to foreign occupation of [...]
Continue Reading July 22nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Alex Jones offers a opinion. Call it conspiratorial, but the logic is impeccable and it is a fresh perspective amidst otherwise limited news coverage.
Ask the question, who benefits?
Today is the last day of parliament before an 80 day break. So if the government wanted to get those anti-terror measures through which were proposed after the [...]
Continue Reading July 22nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Perpetual war anyone?
The House voted by a wide margin Thursday night to renew expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the collection of antiterrorism measures passed after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The final vote was 257-171. The bill makes permanent 14 of 16 provisions in the act set to expire next year and extends two [...]
Continue Reading July 22nd, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Finally more dissenting voices.
The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory.
Causing a fission reaction in several kilograms of uranium and plutonium [...]
Continue Reading July 21st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
They certainly don’t waste any time.
The government will seek new anti-terror measures including three new criminal offences and the power to deport and exclude extremists, home secretary Charles Clarke told MPs on Wednesday.
Mr Clarke said in a Commons statement that people who preached, wrote articles or ran websites that fomented or provoked terrorism would be [...]
Continue Reading July 20th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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