Saturday, November 28:

Roy S. Carson: VENEZUELA: Hugo Chavez' big mouth! Woops ... he's gone and done it again! Years ago it might have taken days for Chavez' rasher statements to reach the disbelieving ears of Europeans, North Americans or even those in Asia and elsewhere in the Pacific who give a damn about what's happening along southern Caribbean shores. The time differential and the cost of reporting trivialities were not unsubstantial and lunacies were kind of expected from faraway places.

Wednesday, November 25:

Sheila Dean: *Fusion center data consolidation effort failing, Texas seeks public input Since the passage of the PATRIOT Act, data collection has been a part of an ambitious effort to coordinate national security efforts. Many state governments are in the process of developing warehouses for private and public information in centralized digital hubs called fusion centers, over 70 of which have already been established around the country.One fusion center is the North Central Texas Fusion Center (NCTFS).

Ted Newcomen: New Anti-Islamic Working Class Group Rattles British Government A new anti-islamic white working class grass-roots organization has got the British political establishment rattled. The English Defense League (EDL)has moved in to fill the vacuum caused by widespread disenchantment with traditional mainstream parties as the UK struggles with the economic recession.

Tuesday, November 24:

Wayne Madsen: NSA eavesdropping more widespread than reported (4 comments) NSA sources report that the agency's warrantless wiretapping program was more widespread than originally reported and it began shortly after the 2001 inauguration of Bush and Cheney, some six months prior to the 9/11 attacks. It soon grew to include millions of Americans--elected and appointed government officials, federal judges, anti-Bush celebrities and clergy, and even intelligence and law enforcement officials.

Sunday, November 22:

Saberi Roy: Are the Terrorists Homeward Bound? (2 comments) Analysis of Al-Qaeda strategy and why there are increased incidents of terrorism in South Asia.

Richard Clark: *New JFK assassination bombshells (16 comments) Bombshells in the new trade paperback of a good JFK assassination book are featured in a new Discovery Channel special, "Did the Mob kill JFK?" produced by NBC. It premieres Sunday, November 22, 2009, on the Discovery Channel (US) at 8pm and again at 11pm. Authors of the book, Legacy of Secrecy, Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, are extensively interviewed in the documentary, which will continue to air in the coming months.

Tuesday, November 24:

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan.

The Extreme Secrecy of the Federal Courts To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to do was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself.

Monday, November 23:

The Pro-War, Anti-Gun Wing of the GOP | by Jerry Salcido Save Those Bullets for the Monsters

Friday, November 27:

The Salahis, Obama's Uninvited Guests, Prompt an Inquiry Michaele and Tareq Salahi, slipped past multiple layers of high-level White House security Tuesday night and managed to rub shoulders, literally, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, among others, at Washington's most exclusive social event this year.

Tuesday, November 24:

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan (1 comments) Members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found.

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed A former senior executive at Blackwater confirmed the military intelligence source's claim that the company is working in Pakistan for the CIA and JSOC, the premier counterterrorism and covert operations force within the military. He said that Blackwater is also working for the Pakistani government on a subcontract firm that puts US Blackwater operatives on the ground with Pakistani forces

Sunday, November 22:

Lest We Forget: Kennedy Killed in Dallas on this day 46 years ago (2 comments) Dallas, Nov. 22--President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today. He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade.

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