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The Republican Right: Al-Qaeda’s Unwitting Hype Men?
Nine years ago, on September 11th, 2001, a well-coordinated team of 19 al-Qaeda terrorists who had infiltrated the United States months before highjacked four airplanes, crashing two into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, killing nearly three thousand people. On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to detonate an explosive…
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Yemen Gets It Poppin' On the Terror Tip
There’s a Yemeni link to the attempted bombing of the Detroit-bound Northwest flight. From The Wasington Post: The al-Qaeda branch linked to the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight has for the past year escalated efforts to exploit Yemen’s instability and carve out a leadership role among terrorist groups, say Yemeni and…
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Jesus of Nazareth: "I Ain't Die For This"
Found this clip on colleague Michael Arceneaux’s Cynical Ones blog. The Buzz is really wishing we had not.
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Percy Sutton: Through the Years
Percy Sutton, former lawyer for Malcolm X and towering figure on the political and business landscape of New York, died Saturday at the age of 89. The New York Times put out a slideshow of photos of Sutton covering the many years of his illustrious life and career.
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Holocaust Survivor Stages Hunger Strike for Gaza
85-year-old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein is leading a protest against Egypt’s refusal to allow a solidarity march into Gaza. From Common Dreams: American activist Hedy Epstein and other grandmothers participating in the Gaza Freedom March began a hunger strike at 1000 GMT. “I’ve never done this before, I don’t know how my body will react,…
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The Boomers Broke It; Can Gen X-ers Fix It?
If the 21st century’s opening decade has revealed anything about American life, it’s this: We’re a nation that’s much better at breaking things than fixing them. We opened the epoch by thrashing about the globe, looking for something to smash in reaction to 9/11. We’ve closed it by wallowing in the inevitable wreckage of our…
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NEWS STAND: Mexico Reconsiders Drug War; Dennis Brutus, 85; Percy Sutton, 89.
SAY NO TO NO ON DRUGS? Will common sense about the war on drugs emerge from Mexico? For several years, the administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderón has battled the illegal traffic in drugs with a strategy defined and supported by the United States. He has deployed large numbers of troops in Ciudad Juarez, a…
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A New Terror Threat?
On Christmas Day, a clatter, a puff of smoke and a brief, terrifying flame: Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, had allegedly tried to blow up his airplane. Others aboard the airliner quickly subdued the man, a former University College of London student who…
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Nigerian Man Held in Terror Attempt
His own father was so worried about his involvement with extremist groups that he informed U.S. authorities about him. His name was on American security watch lists. Yet Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab cleared security in Lagos and Amsterdam and was able to board a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit. When he attempted to set off an…
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Bette Davis: The Greatest White Bitch of All
“In my day we didn’t talk much about happiness. If it came, we were grateful for it. But we were brought up in the belief that there were other things more important.” “What things?” “Oh, old fogey fantastic notions such as duty and personal responsibility.” “In This Our Life” was released in 1942 and provided…