1 hour ago by Barak

Monday, November 9 will mark the 20 th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. I think this is a worthwhile moment to consider the positive and negative consequences of the end of the Cold War from the vantage point of 2009. Positive Consequences: Spread of Democracy. While the third wave of ...

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2 hours ago by Stoutcat

I just don’t understand how so many people/groups/media sources can remain in a 9/10 mindset. But they persist. The latest example comes from my local paper, the Cape Cod Times, which ran a front page headline yesterday on the Fort Hood massacre: “A mystery”? A mystery?! Are you kidding me? When our ...

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2 hours ago by Kate

Kim is of my best friends in dog sport, and owns one of my Mini Schnauzers. When I learned earlier today that she'd been on the scene at Fort Hood, I asked if she'd be willing to write about the...

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2 hours ago by C.A. Morrison

Fort Hood Shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists reports that Major Nidal Malik Hasan attended the same mosque in Northern Virginia in 2001 with a radical imam and which was attended by the September 11 terrorists. Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldie ...

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2 hours ago by SOF Editor

Had Wednesday’s serial murders at Ft Hood taken place just outside the Base in the City of Killeen, TX, the murder suspect would likely have been gunned-down immediately by several Texas CHL holders. Tragically, the murders took place in a “gun-free zone” (aka “criminal empowerment zone”), because i ...

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3 hours ago by sakerfa

Author of Blowback, The Sorrows Of Empire and Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Empire, Chalmers Johnson has literally written the book on the concept of American Hegemony. A former naval officer and consultant of the C.I.A., he now serves as professor Emeritus at UC San Diego. Part 1 of 4 Part ...

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3 hours ago by Ginny

Although I suspect it is the BBC they mean, I often hear that American news is not as accurate as British news. I have my doubts. However, not too far from Fort Hood, I find this article that seems to give us more insight than the local or even the national. Not that, of course, that insight wasn’t ...

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4 hours ago

The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]

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4 hours ago

The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]

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5 hours ago by creeping

From the Telegraph: Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother’s funeral was held ther ...

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