Nsyght - Last Bookmarks tagged with "gwot"

Nicholas Kristof, "The Endorsement From Hell (op-ed)," New York Times (Oct. 25, 2008), on al-Qaeda's "endorsement" of McCain

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:20 GMT

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U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists | News - Security - CNET News

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:20 GMT

I don't get this. What can they do with Twitter that they can't already do with mobile phones and plain-vanilla web access?
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Jeff Zeleny, "Bush offers a look into spirituality," Chicago Tribune (Jan. 7, 2002)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:19 GMT

Archived version of a news story cited by Bruce Lincoln in Holy Terrors.
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globeandmail.com: Hutterites challenge post-9/11 security rules (refuse to be photographed for ID cards)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:16 GMT

Hutterites refuse to be photographed for driver licenses and are making their case in Canadian court.
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Doonesbury, Sept. 28, 2008 on "24" and torture

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:16 GMT

Sort of funny. Sort of ... not.
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Internal DHS Documents Detail Expansion of Power to Read and Copy Travelers' Papers | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:12 GMT

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fpress%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F23
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Christianity Today on torture [4]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:06 GMT

David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a Christian perspective, no exceptional circumstances can ever justify the use of torture. From February 2006.
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Christianity Today on torture

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:06 GMT

Homepage of the National Religious Campaign against Torture

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:06 GMT

This group has achieved some visibility by distributing simple black banners with the words "torture is wrong" to houses of worship.
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California state legislature instructs health-care licensing boards to condemn torture

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:06 GMT

California licensing boards are instructed to inform doctors and other health-care workers holding state licensures that any involvement or complicity in torture or coercive interrogations may result in prosecution.
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Only 8% of Guantánamo detainees alleged to be al-Qaeda...

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:04 GMT

... and 55% are "not alleged to have engaged in any hostile act" against the US. 95% were turned in by bounty hunters seeking rewards, not captured on the battlefield. How is this justifiable?
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Richard Cimino, "9/11’s spiritual effect found to be short-lived among American young adults," Religioscope (Aug. 27, 2008)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:53:02 GMT

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The Hurt Locker: A Near-Perfect War Film - TIME

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:59 GMT

This looks like an interesting flick.
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Hunting Al-Qaeda From the Skies - washingtonpost.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:56 GMT

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In Hunt for Bin Laden, a New Approach - washingtonpost.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:56 GMT

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Dave Zirin, "COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies" | The Huffington Post, July 20, 2008

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:52 GMT

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The return of COINTELPRO: spying on dissenters in the name of freedom

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:51 GMT

A truly creepy story. An anti-death-penalty activist (and sportswriter) describes how his group was infiltrated by an undercover agent who described members as "anarchist" and "socialist," even after it was obvious that the group was engaging in no dangerous or illegal activities.
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"Fusion centers": another step on the road to the "total surveillance society"

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:51 GMT

A "fusion center" is a domestic intelligence-gathering facility which involves police, federal agencies, the military, and in some cases also private contractors in gathering as much data as possible about people suspected of undefined "illicit activity." No chance of abuse there, of course. None.
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DHS: Federal border agents can "detain" your computer indefinitely, without cause

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:50 GMT

Federal security agents can confiscate anyone's laptop or any information storage device (including any and all papers you're travelling with), share the contents with any third party they wish, and keep the material indefinitely, without cause.
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Shankar Vedantam, "How Terrorist Organizations Work Like Clubs," The Washington Post (August 3, 2008)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:50 GMT

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The Question of Torture: Panel discussion with Mark Bowden, Mark Danner, Darius Rejali, Elaine Scarry, and Aryeh Neier (NYPL, June 1, 2005)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:51 GMT

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Bob Herbert - Madness and Shame - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:46 GMT

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"They Have Names": memorials for soldiers

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:45 GMT

Extensive profiles and photos of individual soldiers.
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The Ethics of a Psychologist - The Current

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:44 GMT

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Pew Forum interview on religion in the military

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:44 GMT

A short interview with Robert Tuttle of Georgetown; focuses primarily (but not exclusively) on the legal issues associated with the chaplaincy
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Nicholas Kristof calls for a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation commission

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:43 GMT

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Domestic spying quietly goes on -- baltimoresun.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:42 GMT

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltimoresun.com%2Fnews%2Fbal-te.fisa07jul07%2C0%2C2992594.story
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China inspired interrogations at Guantánamo - International Herald Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:42 GMT

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Suicide bomber attacks Indian Embassy in Kabul

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:42 GMT

If India is drawn into direct or proxy conflict with the Taliban (and by extension Pakistan's ISI), the results could be very explosive.
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"Believe me, it's torture": Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:41 GMT

Hitchens decided to experience waterboarding for himself. He lasts about twenty seconds and describes having nightmares and panic attacks ever since. Also check the video at http://snipr.com/2sv2d
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Breaking: David Addington appears before Congress, acts like a jerk

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:40 GMT

A very strange little piece. Addington was subpoenaed before Congress and, along with John Yoo, pushed to new limits the practice of obfuscating the Congress in their attempts to exercise supervisory authority.
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Dan Froomkin - General Accuses WH of War Crimes - washingtonpost.com

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:39 GMT

Notes on retired Gen. Taguba's preface to the recent Physicians for Human Rights report on detainee torture.
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Bruce Lincoln, "The other war: the one of words," Kansas City Star op-ed (2002)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:34 GMT

Bruce
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Suicide may kill more U.S. soldiers than combat

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:52:33 GMT

Not sure what to make of this news, or how reliable these numbers really are, but it's fairly shocking. It also says that one in ten U.S. veterans will suffer from untreated PTSD.
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Thoughts on Nangarhar from an ex-Marine

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:38 GMT

An interesting and nuanced perspective, combining an appreciation for the culture of the Marines (and its flaws), an awareness of the high strategic stakes involved in any civilian killings by U.S. troops, and a much-needed reminder that U.S. forces have
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Thoughts on Nangarhar from an ex-Marine [6]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:49:38 GMT

Top ten civil-rights abuses of 2006! [P]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:00 GMT

Ten most egregious Bush administration violations of the American spirit of freedom and openness during 2006. It's a sorry-looking list. Original source: http://www.slate.com/id/2156397/ I'm adopting Godfrey's [P] notation here -- this is a poppable ve
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2 Lodi residents refused entry back into U.S.

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:28 GMT

Two U.S. citizens are denied reentry into the U.S. from Pakistan unless they agree to FBI interrogations in Pakistan first. Move called "unprecedented."
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TheStar.com - The 'war on terror' will turn a generation of angry young men against the West, says Linda McQuaig

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:27 GMT

To me, an eminently sensible perspective: the U.S. is making committed, new enemies faster than we can kill them off.
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Crooks and Liars » Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:27 GMT

Scathing remarks from Keith Olbermann on the five-year anniversary of 9-11.
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Global media abhors US response to 9/11 - Yahoo! News

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:27 GMT

International media offer profoundly negative assessments of US actions in the wake of 9-11 at the five-year mark.
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The growth of suicide terrorism | Chicago Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:27 GMT

Pape's point, based on some genuine research, is that suicide bombers are produced not by religious fervor but by a sense of oppression, especially foreign occupation of one's territory or that of an ally.
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Long Island politics and Sufism

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:11 GMT

The Revealer has a piece on Peter King's vendetta against the Islamic Center of Long Island, and how his statements have inadvertently put him in the middle of an intra-Islamic conflict.
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Purpose of the Military Commissions Act

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:06 GMT

FindLaw's J. Mariner argues that the purpose of the MCA was primarily not to assist in the prosecution of terror suspects (who have been successfully prosecuted in civilian courts) but to ensure that torturers are immune from future prosecution.
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Language, logic, and the "war on terror"

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:07 GMT

The author asks us to consider: when the US claims to be spreading "freedom" and "democracy," what precisely do these words mean? Freedom to do what, and what kind of democracy?
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Dems already balking on 9-11 panel reforms

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:05 GMT

Various political considerations appear likely to block implementation of a key recommendation from the 9-11 commission: reorganizing and strengthening Congressional oversight of intelligence agencies. What a bunch of losers.
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Latest from "Get Your War On" comix

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:02 GMT

New postings from "Get Your War On" since Thanksgiving. If you don't know it, this is probably the bitterest, angriest, most obscene political cartoonist there is. I think he's great; YMMV.
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Ten greatest civil liberties abuses of 2006

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:00 GMT

Slate's legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwik writes her own "year's ten best" list: top ten civil rights violations in the U.S. in 2006. More at source. See esp. the sorry story of José Padilla. Remember him? The terrorist mastermind who was going to blow
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Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act; is FBI acting legally? [9]

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:00 GMT

The FBI disregards legal provisions exempting libraries from the scope of National Security Letters. Good thing we got the ALA looking out for us though.
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Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act; is FBI acting legally?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:51:01 GMT

The FBI disregards legal provisions exempting libraries from the scope of National Security Letters. Good thing we got the ALA looking out for us though.
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