By Mark | October 27, 2019
In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]
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By Mark | September 11, 2011
As reluctant as I am to jump on the “Let’s Milk the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks for Ratings and Ad Revenue” bandwagon, I just read a very thoughtful piece by U-M history professor Juan Cole, and felt as though it deserved to be passed along. Here’s a clip. I’d encourage you, however, to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, History, Politics | Also tagged 9/11, Abu Ghraib, Arab Spring, Bush, Bush administration, CIA, democracy, democracy protests, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Juan Cole, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Qaddafi, surveillance culture, Tahrir Square, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Tunisia, two state solution, war for oil, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
Eight years to the day after George Bush appeared on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and announced “Mission Accomplished,” it’s being reported that Osama bin Laden has been killed by the CIA in Pakistan. “Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted action,” said the President… I want to say something […]
By Mark | October 6, 2010
It’s being reported by the Washington Post that high-level talks between the Karzai government and the Taliban are taking place in Afghanistan on the possibility of a negotiated end to the war. Here, with what I consider to be a brilliant take on this very positive development is former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. As […]
By Mark | August 22, 2010
There was apparently a big protest yesterday, around the corner from the site of the former World Trade Center. Crazed, middle-aged, white people, emboldened by the likes of FOX News and Sarah Palin, had taken to the streets to show their displeasure over plans to build a 13-story Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. And, […]
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