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Alternative Reading of the Al-Mabhouh Murder

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By Ramzy Baroud

The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assassins in the supposed safety of a sovereign country.

Obama's National Cybersecurity Initiative Puts NSA in the Driver's Seat

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By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling

On March 2, the Obama administration issued a sanitized version of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), releasing portions that discussed intrusion detection systems on federal networks.

To Zion an Eye Looks

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By Anwaar Hussain of Truth Spring

Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad.

Annals of Homeland Security: Flawed Nuke Detection Program Dialed-Back by DHS

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By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling

Though production lines at the fear factory are still in overdrive, the Department of Homeland Security's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) are scrapping plans for a new generation of "high-tech detectors for screening vehicles and cargo, saying they cost too much and do not work as effectively as security officials once maintained," The Washington Post reported.

The Government's Secret Hit List

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By Sherwood Ross

Raising troubling comparisons to tactics employed by Josef Stalin and right-wing Latin American dictatorships, the U.S. government has created a "hit list" of Americans abroad marked for murder.

Flight 253: Intelligence Agencies Nixed State Department Move to Revoke Bomber's Visa

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By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling

Rightist demagogues, as they are wont to do, prattle-on how they, and they alone, can "keep America safe"--by shredding the Constitution.

Flight 253 Cover-Up: "No Smoking Gun" Claims Undercut by New Disclosures

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By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling

Nearly one month after passengers foiled an attempted suicide bomb attack aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day, new information reveals that the White House and U.S. security agencies had specific intelligence on accused terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, far earlier than previously acknowledged.

CIA's changing role in U.S. imperialism's expanding war

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By Michael Prysner. Republished from Party for Socialism & Liberation

Attack highlights increased military operations of brutal secret agency

In eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, a member of the resistance infiltrated a CIA compound and detonated an explosive belt, killing seven CIA operatives and wounding six others. Some agents spoke candidly on the day of the bombing, chest-thumping that they were in this fight for the long haul. "There is no pullout [in 2011]," said one agent anonymously, "there is no withdrawal or anything like that planned."

Flight 253: Anatomy of a Cover-Up

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By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling

New revelations about the failed Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 continue to emerge as does evidence of a systematic cover-up.

Letting the Beast Out of the (Corporatist) Bottle: Obama Channels Bush on Bioweapons

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By Tom Burghardt of Anti-fascist Calling

The Obama administration's recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our "change" president's duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster.

Say What? Drones, Double Agents, Torture?

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By Rowan Wolf

There has been a flurry of rather stunning news of late that should raise eyebrows. I have collected a few of the ones that left me thinking "Say What?". They include cheap ways to intercept Predator drone military feeds, U.S. double agents planning terrorist attacks, the CIA still involved in torture, and we are still being spied upon.

Osama Bin Laden, Dead or Alive?...An irrelevant question asked by David Ray Griffin.

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By Maher Osseiran

I say that it is irrelevant because the war policy makers in the U.S. government can easily deal with a bin Laden death and find ways to justify their never ending war on terror; bin Laden's vital signs are of little consequence.

Obama Regime: Toss NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Lawsuit

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By Tom Burghardt of Antifascist Calling

President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state's driftnet surveillance of Americans' electronic communications.

Of Spies, Spills and the ISI

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By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring

After crawling out of the woodwork where they hibernated for decades, the ex-spooks of Inter Services Intelligence are singing like canaries on the national media. In a blizzard of accusations and counter-accusations, ranging from secret funds used to prop up political alliances to brazen smear campaigns against political leaders, they are revealing mind boggling misdeeds of their former employer like never before. Has Pakistan's premier intelligence agency Hooverised or McCarthyised over the years, is a question that begs an answer.

Who Killed Arafat and Why?

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By Ramzy Baroud

Who killed Yasser Arafat? When the Palestinian leader was declared dead in a French hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, there was no way of knowing how questions related to his death should be phrased. Was he killed or did he die from old age? If he was killed, then who killed him and why? The "mysterious" nature of his symptoms gave birth to a theory that he was poisoned over a period of time, provided enough evidence that foul play was involved, even accusing some of those closest to him. Although the man's story has been recorded in the ever-growing chronicle of the Palestinian struggle and Palestinians have somehow moved on, recent breaking news has blown his story wide open once again, breeding new controversy and stories of conspiracy.

Keeping an Eye on Turkey

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By Rowan Wolf

I would recommend keeping an eye on what Turkey is doing. As I have discussed elsewhere (here and here), the conflict between the Iraqi Kurds and Turkey places the United States in a precarious position.

British Documents on Iraq's WMD

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Back to the Israeli Bombing of Syria

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By Rowan Wolf

Back on November 7, 2007 I wrote Who Bombed Syria? Did Syria Get Bombed?. I was trying to puzzle through the conflicting and shifting information regarding the Israeli (or U.S.?) bombing of an alleged nuclear (or chemical weapons) facility in Syria.

Burma: The Back Story

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By Rowan Wolf

The current protests in Burma are attributed to a 500% increase in fuel prices which crippled an already struggling population's ability to survive (BBC). The people of Burma have been descending into deeper and deeper poverty over the last decade. According to Jonathan Head, author of the BBC article, the people of Burma spend an average of 70% of their income on food. The dramatic increase in fuel prices on August 15, 2007 was too much to bear.

Cry for Burma, But Take Action

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By Rowan Wolf

The news leaks out of Burma of brutal repression by the Junta in power for 40 years. Brave people on the ground send out news and pictures to an international network of Burmese bloggers. Peaceful protests is met with force and brutal repression. Millions are displaced.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SPSsKcpxJMk

You can support pressure to bring an end to the brutality. Here is a petition to Chinese President Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council from MoveOn, and here is the link to Amnesty International's letter campaign to President Bush.

Too Dirty for Negroponte?

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By Rowan Wolf

As usual, Hersch is just full of surprises. In The Redirection: Is the Administration's New Policy Benefiting Our Enemies in the War on Terrorism?, Hersch talks about the covert funding of Sunni extremists and of Negroponte's move from DHI to his State Department position. Apparently, Negroponte, who was part of the Iran-Contra operation didn't like the feeling of deja vu.

Will Iraq Be A US Proxy Again?

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By Rowan Wolf

I did a triple take when I saw the following headline from Gulf News - Fears of military action on Iraq-Iran border. Surely, the article was referring to the yet another US "operation" against "insurgents." However, the announced offensives are on the Syrian border ("Operation Spear", Al Jazeera, Wa. Post, AP) not the Iranian border.

Are We Seeing a Rash of Suicides?

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By Rowan Wolf

It seems that suicide is becoming very popular. First we had Gary Webb, then Hunter Thompson and now former Ukranian Interior Minister Yury Kravchenko. Webb died of two gunshot wounds to the head as did Kravchenko. Hunter S. Thompson also reportedly shot himself - but was he on the phone or at the typewriter?

HAARP Research Makes the News

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By Rowan Wolf

The February 2005 edition of Nature has a research report from Todd Pedersen and Elizabeth Gerken on a 3/10/2004 experiment with HAARP. The report - Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves (try this link if that one doesn't work) - reports that they were able to create visible light forms in the "ionospheric E level" (100 km above the earth). Implied is that much former research focused on the F level several hundred kilometers above the earth.

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