Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. November 4, 2009. Researchers looking at beliefs about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein have made some surprising discoveries about why peopl
Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. September 11, 2009. After 9/11, saw amazing acts of courage by ordinary people, including assembled flotilla of boats evacuated 300,000 to 500,000 people from lower Manhattan.
Jodie Evans, AlterNet. July 31, 2009. Biden should quit his war talk and call for diplomacy, development, and accountability Afghanistan and Iraq that the US supports.
Agence France Presse July 27, 2009. Abu Ali was held in Saudi jails for two years before being extradited to the U.S. He claims he was tortured into confessing to the plot by Saudi authorities.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 8, 2009. Millions of Nazis took large swaths of Europe by force; tens of millions died. Al Qaeda is a group of lunatics who live in caves.
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 28, 2009. Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 24, 2009. Amid citizen outrage and news that torture was used to extract a link between Iraq and al Qaeda, Eric Holder won't say if he intends to prosecute.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 22, 2009. Is Obama really opening the door for accountability? Or will the result be a bipartisan whitewash commission?
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 21, 2009. The hawkish Connecticut Senator still refuses to call waterboarding torture.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. April 20, 2009. Why more substantive debate and non-military solutions are needed in this war.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2009. Al Qaeda leaders were able to exploit George W. Bush's policies to recruit, expand, and raise money. Not so much with Obama in the White House.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. April 18, 2009. U.S. air strikes have been touted as eliminating top al Qaeda leaders, but they are actually weakening Pakistan’s defense against the insurgency.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 15, 2009. Understanding the cost of war in Afghanistan, and just in time for tax day.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 11, 2009. The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications.
Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet. April 10, 2009. Obama says we must expand drone operations in Pakistan lest the Taliban get a nuclear weapon. Pakistani author Tariq Ali tells me this is a joke.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 31, 2009. The investigative journalist for The New Yorker explains his recent bombshell revelation about Dick Cheney's "executive assassination" squads.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. March 30, 2009. Strategists argue that escalating U.S. airstrikes and raids in Pakistan could actually strengthen radical jihadi groups.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 13, 2009. The plan involves 100 Yemeni detainees and is opposed by the government of Yemen, which argues it has its own program for ex-jihadists.
Deborah Haynes, The Times of London UK. February 4, 2009. Samira Ahmed Jassim claims to have arranged the rapes of her recruits, then persuaded them to blow themselves up.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: Video. January 22, 2009. "The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications."
