Donna Summer's death 'may have been caused by 9-11 dust' Newstrack India | London, May 18 (ANI): Disco legend Donna Summer's lung cancer, which ultimately led to her death in Florida on Thursday, is said to have been triggered by toxic dust from the 9/11 attacks. | The 'I Feel Love singer' was in New York when al-Qaeda destroyed the Twin Towers in 2001. | She had been in...
Pakistan president to attend NATO summit Al Jazeera | Pakistan has confirmed its president will attend a summit of NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago as negotiations with US to reopen supply lines into Afghanistan continues. | Nadeem Hotiana, an embassy spokesman in Washington, said on Tuesday that Asif Ali Zardari will attend the May 20-...
The Paul-Amash amendment and NDAA: A loss and a win for liberty The Washington Times Tiffany Madison | Ask me a question. | WASHINGTON, May 18, 2012 — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday to prevent the Obama Administration from exercising the indefinite detention authority granted to it by the 2012 Nati...
'Battleship' And Our American Comfort With War Games Huffington Post | This year's summer movie season seems especially ... virile. From "Avengers" to "Battleship," Hollywood is administering a heavy dose of good guys giving their less-good counterparts what they deserve. | There's no doubt that these films, with thei...
Head of UN mission in Syria 'pessimistic' Al Jazeera | The head of the UN ceasefire monitoring mission in Syria has given a bleak assessment of the task his team faces. | Major-General Robert Mood has called on all sides to step up efforts to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict that the UN sa...
Brave New World, Brave New Majority CounterPunch | The news is in. White births are no longer a majority in the United States. The Bureau of the Census confirms that non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 of all births in the year ending July, 2011, while minorities including Hispanics, blacks,...
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9/11 mastermind to face 'trial of the century' Sydney Morning Herald | The self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four co-accused are due to be arraigned on Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, with all facing the death penalty if convicted. | Kha...
With Gitmo hearing, a legal 'circus' resumes CNN | By Larry Shaughnessy | The Obama administration's struggle over how to handle the prisoners and prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, enters a new chapter Saturday when a military...
Judge Napolitano: Shoot down a drone, become an American hero Pakalert Press Share | RT | Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano has found a novel approach to handling the whole drone surveillance dilemma that has Americans worried that the government will soon watch their every move from the sky. | Speaking out against...
Margulies: Abu Zubaydah, the man justice has forgotten Denver Post | Last week, my colleagues and I did something defense attorneys rarely do: We asked the government to file charges against our client. And because it seems unlikely the case will ever make it to an American courtroom, we have asked that it be heard ...
Donna Summer's death 'may have been caused by 9-11 dust' Newstrack India | London, May 18 (ANI): Disco legend Donna Summer's lung cancer, which ultimately led to her death in Florida on Thursday, is said to have been triggered by toxic dust from the 9/11 attacks. | The 'I Feel Love singer' was in New York when al-Qaeda de...
Robert Fisk: Must we stand idly by while world leaders spout this codswallop? The Independent | I weary a bit of this stuff. If the CIA and the Brits and the Saudis have really penetrated al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula – or AQAP, as we are now enjoined to call it, although the acronym sounds a bit like an insurance company – all well and good. But the fact that the Saudis originally supported the Taliban and that al-Qa'ida was until...
Syria-wide protests urged as Qaeda fears grows France24 | AFP - Anti-regime activists have called for Syria-wide protests on Friday in support of students in Aleppo, a day after thousands of them rallied, emboldened by the presence of UN truce observers. | Growing suspicions of an Al-Qaeda presence in Syria, meanwhile, further complicated matters for the fragmented opposition, which has repeatedly refut...
