Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges December 28, 2009 Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo [...]

Source: Hornberger’s Blog by Jacob G. Hornberger December 28, 2009 To justify the federal government’s massive post-9/11 infringements on civil liberties, the proponents of Big Government have sometimes said, “There hasn’t been another major terrorist attack on the United States since 9/11. ” I have responded with the following: “But if there had been another major terrorist attack, you [...]

Source: Agence France-Presse December 28, 2009 KABUL – Ten civilians, mostly school children, have been killed during Western military operations in eastern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai’s office said Monday, citing “initial reports”. Karzai condemned the killings, which his statement said took place in Kunar province, which borders Pakistan, on Saturday. “Initial reports indicate that in a series of operations [...]

Source: Danger Room by Noah Shachtman December 30, 2009 That’s the thought that ran through my head, as I read about China’s $3.4 billion copper-mining effort southeast of Kabul. It’s “by far the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan,” according to the New York Times. And it’s hardly China’s only investment in an American battlefield. Earlier this [...]

Source: Truthdig by Robert Scheer December 30, 2009 There is no “war” against terrorism. What George W. Bush launched and Barack Obama insists on perpetuating does not qualify. Not if by war one means doing the obvious and checking a highly suspicious air traveler’s underwear to see if explosives have been sewn in. If Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had [...]

see article U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion below Source: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald December 29, 2009 “In all their alleged allegedness, this Administration has an allergy to the concept of war, and thus to the tools of war, including strategy and war aims” — Supreme Tough Guy Warrior Mark Steyn, National Review, yesterday. “The White [...]

Fuente: La Jornada por Editorial (La Jornada) 29 de diciembre, 2009 A tres días del fallido atentado contra un avión de pasajeros de la línea Northwest Airlines, que cubría el trayecto de Ámsterdam a Detroit, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, dijo que ordenará una investigación para esclarecer por qué Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab –el nigeriano acusado de [...]

Source: The Independent Extraordinarily, the US is making exactly the same mistake as in Iraq and Afghanistan by Patrick Cockburn December 31, 2009 We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned This is the tribal chant of the powerful Awaleq tribe of Yemen, in which they bid defiance to the world. [...]

Source: Ted Rall Since 9/11, We’ve Embraced Our Inner Coward by Ted Rall December 31, 2009 NEW YORK — Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead. Once we Americas did [...]

Source: Real News Network December 30, 2009 Paul Jay talks to Sam Husseini in Cairo, Egypt