Research Update on Health Impacts of Dust from 9/11 Aftermath
Originally published by Erin Billups at NY1 on April 8, 2014 Last month, NY1 told viewers about another link discovered between the toxic dust many were exposed to in the aftermath of the September...
View ArticlePost-9/11 foreign policy
Originally posted at Foreign Policy Blogs by Maxime H.A. Larivé on 5/6/14 Let’s be honest, foreign policy making has never been democratic. The label of national security has offered governments around...
View ArticleThe Newburgh Sting
On May 20, 2009, four men from the impoverished and largely African-American city of Newburgh, NY, were apprehended for an alleged terror plot. They had no history of violence or terrorist ties, but...
View ArticleObama: U.S. ‘crossed a line’ and tortured after 9/11 attacks
Originally published at CNN by Ray Sanchez on 8/3/14 (CNN) — President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that the United States “crossed a line” and tortured al Qaeda detainees after the 9/11 terror...
View ArticleJames Risen calls Obama ‘greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation’
Originally published at The Guardian by Joanna Walters on 8/17/14 Journalist James Risen The New York Times reporter James Risen, who faces jail over his refusal to reveal a source and testify against...
View ArticleThe torture meted out by the CIA far exceeds the conventional understanding...
Originally published at The Telegraph by by Peter Foster on 9/7/14 Exclusive: As the US Senate prepares to release a report documenting US torture programme after 9/11, Telegraph reveals new details...
View ArticleSecret National Security Letters
Originally published at The Intercept by Cora Currier on 10/9/14 Can the government make demands for data entirely in secret? That was the question yesterday before a federal appeals court in San...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Jihadist from Wichita
Originally published at WhoWhatWhy.com by Kevin Ryan on 9/24/14 Terry Lee Loewen When neighbors went trick-or-treating at Terry Lee Loewen’s house in Wichita last Halloween, they saw a quiet,...
View ArticleSince 9/11, we’ve lost our common sense and compassion
Originally published at the Lexington-Herald Reader by Paul Prather on 12/27/14 Fifty years from now, when a history of the 9/11 attacks can be written from a suitable distance, it probably will be...
View ArticleThe Cost of US Wars Since 9/11: $1.6 Trillion
Originally published at Mother Jones by Erika Eichelberger and AJ Vicens on 12/23/14 The cost of US war-making in the 13 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks reached a whopping $1.6 trillion...
View ArticleU.S. Intelligence Agencies Mock America in 9/11 Trial
Originally published at Washington’s Blog by Kevin Ryan on 6/13/15 Last year, it was discovered that the FBI had attempted to infiltrate the legal defense team of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner. The...
View ArticleImmigrants’ Lawsuit Over Post-9/11 Detention Is Revived
Originally published at the NYTimes by Adam Liptak on 6/17/15 WASHINGTON — Saying that high-ranking Bush administration officials may have taken part in grave constitutional violations after the Sept....
View ArticleAP Exclusive: FBI behind mysterious fleet of aircraft conducting surveillance...
Originally published at the AP: The Big Story by Jack Gillum, Eileen Sullivan and Eric Tucker on 6/2/15 In this photo taken May 26, 2015, a small plane flies near Manassas Regional Airport in Manassas,...
View ArticleCIA torture appears to have broken spy agency rule on human experimentation
Originally published at The Guardian by Spencer Ackerman on 6/15/15 Exclusive: Watchdogs shocked at ‘disconnect’ between doctors who oversaw interrogation and guidelines that gave CIA director power...
View ArticleEvery state has people suffering from 9/11 illnesses
Originally published at The NY Daily News by Thomas Tracy on 7/20/15 It’s no longer just New York’s problem. Every state in the nation now has someone suffering from cancer or other illnesses related...
View Article14 Years After 9/11, the War on Terror Is Accomplishing Everything bin Laden...
Originally published at The Nation by Tom Englehardt on 9/8/15 Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that? Fourteen...
View ArticleThe Myth of the ‘War on Terrorism’
Originally published at Antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo on 7/13/16 Remember “We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”? That was the justification for the worldwide war on...
View ArticleCrucifixion by Upstate Drone Action
Syracuse, NY – On Good Friday, April 14, 2017, nine nonviolent civil resisters of Upstate Drone Action were arrested at the main entrance of Hancock Air National Guard Base witnessing against...
View ArticleReal Americans Question 9/11
Originally published at Dig Within by Kevin Ryan on 4/16/17 These days it’s difficult to remember what values the American people share. That’s because the U.S. government does so many things that seem...
View ArticleWhy Americans Don’t Understand Terrorism, At All
We live in an invisible empire, and so the mechanics of the empire are never openly discussed with the rabble. Americans don’t comprehend how power actually works across the planet that their country...
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