Osama bin Laden lends support in fight against climate change – guardian.co.uk


Climate science is under assault, progress towards a treaty to end global warming is shuddering to a halt, and Barack Obama is struggling to press on with his clean energy agenda.This was the last conversion to the environmental cause that anybody would have wanted.In a new audiotape that surfaced today on the al-Jazeera network, Osama [...]

Bin Laden endorses bomb attempt on US plane – AP


CAIRO – Osama bin Laden endorsed the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and threatened new attacks against the United States in an audio message released Sunday that appeared aimed at asserting he maintains some direct command over al-Qaida-inspired offshoots. However, U.S. officials and several researchers who track terrorist groups [...]

You’re Fired! Open Letter to the Men of Afghanistan


On December 7, 2009, speaking to Major Garrett of Fox News following his briefing with White House Press Secretary, Shepard Smith asked,
“The government of Afghanistan lost the hearts and minds of the people, so they turned to the Taliban. What in the world is to make us think that the people are going to follow [...]

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A Spoonful of Saccharine: Geopolitical Realities No Barrier to Maddow Blaming Bush for All Problems


By now, you’ve all seen President Obama’s speech, wherein he agreed to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (though most definitely not a surge of the kind used in Iraq and suggested by many for quite some time now, we are assured). Now, Rachel Maddow often tries to walk a peculiar line in which she [...]