Updates in the Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing
Police later found the stolen car in Watertown, Mass. The ensuing shootout left Tamerlan Tsarnaev mortally wounded, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was found the next night hiding in a boat behind a house. Correction: An earlier version of this blog.
Top US Officer Urges Caution on Syria Intervention
Its understood that our strategy has a military dimension, that the best way to arrive at negotiations is to create conditions on the ground that will compel the Assad regime to recognize that negotiations represent its best option for securing some.
Blind to Terror: The U.S. Governments Disastrous Muslim.
The U.S. governments historical outreach program, regardless of whether it has been a Democrat or Republican in the White House, has been based on a schizophrenic policy: In many cases federal prosecutors have gone into federal. Majids connection to terrorism, however, goes back even farther than that, since the offices of the mosque he leads, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center, were raided by U.S. Customs authorities in March 2002 in a��.
Ukraine Launches Military Operation Against Separatists In The East
The move is being described by Ukraine as an anti-terror operation in the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk region. The Kremlin said Friday that Kievs actions have killed the last hope for a deal to diffuse the crisis, which was agreed on last month in Geneva.
Top Stories: European Anti-Terror Raids Net Many Arrests
Good morning, here is our early story: ��� More Than Two Dozen Arrested In France, Belgium In Anti-Terror Raids. And here are more early headlines: Obama, Cameron To Discuss Cyber Attack Preparation. (BBC). Kerry In Paris To Share Big Hug With .
Israel: Iron Dome Intercepts 90 Percent of Rockets
���Weve been constantly fine-turning the programming of the system, including during the fighting. Our engineers are on the ground, with the military crews, analyzing each interception and making adjustments to get the best results,��� said a Rafael.
Column: Pluralism Key to Real Change in Arab World
The military-backed transitional government now ruling the country has killed hundreds and arrested thousands in a sweeping crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Last week, the government declared the venerable organization, founded in 1928, .
Why Are Things As They Are? �� Blog Archive �� Rouge.
Now Paget, drawing on archival sources, declassified documents, and more than 150 interviews, shows that the Ramparts story revealed only a small part of the plot... The program first hit a bump in the road back in 2013 when a number of students ���hacked��� the iPads���which is to say they deleted profile information that designated the user as a student, thus letting the student browse the Internet unencumbered by the filter restrictions enforced by the school district.
Dying Marine has record wiped clean after being discharged for being gay
A cancer patients dying wish was granted recently when his discharge from the Marines was changed from undesirable to honorable after being kicked out in 1956 for being gay. Since Dont Ask, Dont Tell was repealed in 2011, an estimated 114,000 .
Column: Obama Skirts Egypt in State of the Union Address
Just a day before Obama spoke, Egypts top generals blessed the incipient presidential candidacy of Defense Minister Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who elevated himself from mere general to field marshal. Meanwhile, former President Mohamed Morsi, freely.
Auckland Marches Against Terror Suppression Raid - Scoop
Growing momentum against recent police so-called ���anti-terror��� raids and opposition to the Terrorism Suppression Bill saw around 1000 protesters march to Mt Eden Prison this afternoon.
Uncensored: Shocking Graphic Video: Islamic Terrorists Kill.
Last month, a new anti-terrorism bill went through the French parliament which many fear will change the landscape of the internet in that country as well as threaten all sorts of dissenters with all sorts of unconstitutional measures... Here is a link to a program broadcast on NPR (one of the quasi-official mouthpieces of the USan regime) a little over a month ago, on the supposed menace of resurgent ���European��� anti-semitism... Your Website or Blog (Not Required).
Column: An Iran Nuclear Agreement Could Help Afghanistan and South Asia
. issues to include Iran and Afghanistan plus representatives of U.S., European, and U.N. development agencies. The commission would help Afghanistan better measure annual water flows from the Helmand and use its portion of the water more sustainably.
Europes New Time Bomb Is Ticking in Syria | - Foreign Policy
On April 16, police carried out 48 searches and several arrests, the culmination of a yearlong anti-terrorism investigation. At the end of this investigation indications appeared that young Belgian citizens were incited to go to��.
Column: The Value of Human Rights Advocacy with Friends and Foes
The executions, if they take place, would come on top of the regimes killing of more than 2,500 people and the arrest of more than 16,000 since the military toppled President Mohamed Morsi last July 3. As Michelle Dunne and Scott Williamson wrote this.
Egypt and France condemn Jerusalem house demolitions.
Swedish dockworkers have launched a week-long boycott of cargo to and from Israel to protest against the raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people last month.. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/2010623114558557329.html. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11349.shtml?utm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=feedandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+%28Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News%29
The LWOT: Al-Qaeda acknowledges bin Laden death |
. blog, The Cable. An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and Afghanistan on terrorism, national security, the geopolitics of energy, global economics, and the European financial crisis... Over the years, hes dug up resignation-causing FEC documents; unmasked world-famous Internet trolls; exposed bizarre Photoshopping by government media; and revealed a secret Iranian military facility... Related Stories��.
US Needs to Put Its Mideast Plan on the Table
Efforts have escalated over the past few years in Europe and on U.S. college campuses to boycott products made in West Bank settlements. The attachment of younger American Jews to Israel is waning and even the vaunted American Israel Public Affairs .
Chris Hedges Interviews Noam Chomsky (1/3)
NOAM CHOMSKY, LINGUIST AND POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, I think we can draw many very good lessons from the early period of the Industrial Revolution. It was, of course, earlier in England, but lets take here in the United States.
Column: Valiant in Soccer, Can Iran Achieve Diplomatic Goals?
With its 1-3 loss to Bosnia on Wednesday, Iran is out of the 2014 World Cup. But its gritty play won rare respect from an international community more accustomed to associating Iran with terrorism and a suspected quest for nuclear weapons. Iranians all.
Understanding Hamas ��� Mondoweiss
Ahmad Majdi, an area manager for Hamas in Gaza, told me they are very aware that many external powers view them as terrorists, which they explain are based on mistaken reports from Israel. Ahmed. However, US and EU state representatives refused to recognise the newly elected government and they continue with their financial and diplomatic sanctioning of Hamas.. But lets keep the big picture in mind: they act in utterly anti-liberal and anti-humane ways.
Did You Hear? Going Viral No Longer Just For Videos, Memes
The idea of a blog entry or a video going viral on the Internet is a feature of modern life ��� from the cute cat video to the articles about a politicians gaffe. But, much to our disappointment here at NPR, rarely does a clip of audio go viral.
FPs Situation Report, presented by Lockheed Martin: The.
Congress, demanding results, is delaying a $300 million reimbursement to Pakistan for its anti-terror efforts. In the days since the brutal school attack in Peshawar, Pakistan has reinstated executions, made a number of arrests��.
2012: March - June Political Notes - Richard Stallman
Amnesty International that Bahrain arrested an 11-year-old kid and bullied him into confessing crimes which are just a way of saying protesting, and he now faces imprisonment.. Meanwhile, even though the mistake of raiding the wrong house might not be anyones fault, why shouldnt the state compensate the victims for the lasting terror caused by this raid?.. There were anti-ACTA protests across Europe... This story begins quite a ways down the text.
The LWOT: British arrest 12 in terror sweep; Ghailani to file.
. blog, The Cable. An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and Afghanistan on terrorism, national security, the geopolitics of energy, global economics, and the European financial crisis... Over the years, hes dug up resignation-causing FEC documents; unmasked world-famous Internet trolls; exposed bizarre Photoshopping by government media; and revealed a secret Iranian military facility... Related Stories��.
Congress Gives Pakistan 300 Million New Reasons to Fight.
But with violence spiking in both countries, Congress has tightened a measure requiring the Pentagon to certify that Pakistan is a true ally in the anti-terrorism fight before it gives the country $300 million in fresh payments this. Pakistan has escalated its assault on known terrorist strongholds, claiming to have killed 77 militants, and has ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty with plans to execute as many as 500 imprisoned militants... Related Stories��.
Column: Secularists Need Unity to Take on Political Islam
He made sure that this was the case by harassing, arresting and otherwise marginalizing secular figures, from the human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim to Ayman Nour, a liberal who in 2005 presidential elections became the first person to run.
Overnight News Digest: Pending Torture Report Edition
Graphic details about sexual threats and other harsh interrogation techniques the CIA meted out to captured militants will be detailed by a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the spy agencys anti-terror tactics, sources.. NPR. Heres a fact that might surprise you: All of the top 10 U.S. companies that were born on the Internet ��� including Google, Amazon and eBay ��� have overseas corporate headquarters in Ireland. The American tech sector is huge in Ireland.
Would the Loss of Ukraine Harden Russia Policy on Syria?
However, by refusing to shape a new government for Syria, Putin and his diplomats are insuring that the civil war continues to act as a magnet and school for jihadists from his own country as well as elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East.. ISIS.
WikiLeaks: Saudi citizens ���most significant��� terrorism funders
An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and Afghanistan on terrorism, national security, the geopolitics of energy, global economics, and the European financial crisis. His work... Lynch previously wrote Foreign Policys Turtle Bay blog, for which he was awarded the 2011 National Magazine Award for best reporting in digital media. He is also a.. There Are as Many Refugees in the World as Justin Bieber ���
When Does Privacy Become Censorship?
Writing in 2012 in the Stanford Law Review, George Washington University Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen took a dismal view of the proposed ���Right to be Forgotten���, warning that it would put the EU, with its emphasis on privacy, and the US, which highly.
UnBonJuif | - Foreign Policy
Lynch previously wrote Foreign Policys Turtle Bay blog, for which he was awarded the 2011 National Magazine Award for best reporting in digital media. He is also a recipient of the 2013 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Silver��.