Juan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
My friend is a terrorist?
I was outraged this morning to read that a number of my friends who work on building a youth movement…
CNN is reporting that John McCain has claimed that America’s enemies will be encouraged to attack us should we, the American electorate, elect Barack Obama…
Here’s an upper: RAND’s Brian Jenkins, who’s been studying the subject for several years, argues that nuclear terrorism isn’t that grave a threat to the…
Via Robert Farley, NATO has mandated that its troops in Afghanistan be more selective in their use of air power:
Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette, NATO’s…
A former intelligence officer sent a smart bit of commentary on today’s surveillance revelations to a listserv I’m on.
With his permission I’m posting it,…
During a lecture she gave in mid-September at UC Berkeley entitled “The Mystery of Guantánamo Bay,” former New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse…
And with this, the final remnants of the Bush administration’s asinine “We’re only spying on terrorists” line has been blown to smithereens:
Despite pledges by…
The Center for Constitutional Rights put out this press release yesterday:
Today, for the first time, a federal court ordered the release into the United…
The New York Times reported yesterday that the military has concluded that 30 civilians were killed in an August 22nd airstrike, which was a higher…
Maybe I was out of line when I argued last week that only non-white folks are ever saddled with the “terrorist” label. It turns out…
When I first heard someone say that we needed to stop Iran from being responsible for a “second Holocaust,” I thought it was an error…
I second Dylan’s take on Iran hysteria, particularly the stuff about how people tend to assume Iran will act in a completely irrational, suicidal manner,…
Jamie Kirchick’s piece in the current issue of The Weekly Standard is worth responding to, as it perfectly encapsulates much of what’s flawed about the…
Over the weekend a disturbing story ran in the Dayton Daily News:
Baboucarr Njie was preparing for his prayer session Friday night, Sept. 26, when…
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