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Was the Relationship between Brian Glyn Williams and Dzokhar Tsarnaev more than Just Student and “Tutor”?

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bomb­ings, we’ve high­lighted the unrav­el­ing of the “two lone nuts” the­ory of that tragic event.In this con­text, we note that younger brother Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s high school men­tor has a back­ground in the CIA and also teaches Islamic stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, which Dzokhar attended.


Fee, Fi . . . Ho, Hum: The Usual Suspect Elements Come into Focus in (“How Many Lies Can You Allow Yourself to Believe before You Belong to the Lie?”)

Numer­ous ele­ments have come into focus in con­nec­tion with the inves­ti­ga­tion of the Boston bomb­ing. They include a sub­sidiary of Dick Cheney’s Hal­libur­ton. In addi­tion, the mosque they attended and at which they may have been rad­i­cal­ized is part of the milieu shep­herded by Grover Norquist.


A Lie Can Run a Marathon Before the Truth Can Put Its Running Shoes on: (“Truther” Consequences)

The news cycle in this coun­try is dom­i­nated by cov­er­age of the Boston bomb­ings. This is pre­dictable. So is the ten­dency toward sim­plis­tic and/or one-dimensional analy­sis. Gen­er­ally, we’re hear­ing: It was the “gov­ern­ment,” “home-grown domes­tic (i.e. right-wing, Aryan types) ter­ror­ists,” or “Islamic ter­ror­ists.” As this post indi­cates, the divi­sions among these are not nearly so simple.


The Company they Keep: Mearsheimer, Walt and “The Socialism of Fools”

Co-author of a con­tro­ver­sial book on the Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer has run pro­fes­sional inter­fer­ence for a wild-eyed anti-Semite and Hitler apol­o­gist named Gilad Atz­mon. Atzmon’s views would make Goebbels blush. In addi­tion to endors­ing Mearsheimer’s sup­port for Atz­mon, Stephen Walt has con­tributed to a pub­li­ca­tion openly affil­i­ated with Hamas and giv­ing access to medieval anti-Semites of Atzmon’s ilk.


Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Staying True to Form (I Told You So, Part 5: Democracy Muslim Brotherhood Style, Part 5)

Egypt’s Mus­lim Broth­er­hood con­tin­ues to behave as we pre­dicted. It has for­mally attacked a United Nations dec­la­ra­tion against vio­lence against women. This, from the sup­pos­edly “demo­c­ra­tic,” “Western-oriented” orga­ni­za­tion we were told would usher in a “new era” in Egypt­ian pol­i­tics. The Broth­er­hood is also coop­er­at­ing with the Jama’a al-Islamiya to assem­ble a cadre of Islamist civil­ian police to func­tion as a secu­rity force and par­al­lel police.


Iranian City, Elements of Hungary’s neo-Fascist Jobbik Party Allying

An alliance of “Yock­eyite” or Third Posi­tion char­ac­ter has taken shape in Hun­gary. A city con­trolled by the Hun­gar­ian Job­bik Party and an Iran­ian city have announced a coop­er­a­tive agree­ment. Reca­pit­u­lat­ing Hungary’s fas­cist past to a con­sid­er­able extent, the Job­bik Party on its sur­face would seem to have lit­tle in com­mon with Iran, other than anti-Semitism.


Grover Norquist Strikes Again!

Ear­lier this month, the Tea Party/GOP Right demon­strated their hypocrisy, as well as the degree of sol­i­dar­ity between the Islamic fas­cists of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the GOP. The Jihad Watch web­site received the “People’s Choice Award” at the 2013 Con­ser­v­a­tive Polit­i­cal Action Com­mit­tee. The award­ing of the honor was blocked, how­ever by the Tea Party Repub­li­cans, who would only con­sent to give the award if the admin­is­tra­tors of the site would agree not to crit­i­cize Grover Norquist.


German Intelligence and the 9/11 Conspirators

Ger­man intel­li­gence and law enforce­ment had the Ham­burg cell involved in the 9/11 attacks under sur­veil­lance by August of 1998 and did noth­ing. The offi­cer in charge of law enforce­ment activ­i­ties for Ham­burg at the time has report­edly become head of the BND. Cou­pled with Atta’s Ger­man and Aus­trian asso­ciates in Florida, his spon­sor­ship by the Carl Duis­berg Gesellschaft and Germany’s sus­pi­cious manip­u­la­tion of “Curve­ball,” seri­ous ques­tions must be asked about the role of Ger­many and its intel­li­gence ser­vices with regard to 9/11 and the Iraq war.


Update on “Turkish Taffy”

Crush­ing polit­i­cal and jour­nal­is­tic oppo­si­tion, the Erdo­gan gov­ern­ment is inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Man­i­fest­ing an Islamist agenda, the regime uses the Fetul­lah Gulen cult and tracks back to the Al-Taqwa milieu of World War II fas­cists, terrorists.


Nazi Ghosts of the OUN/B Haunt Soccer in the Ukraine

Ukraine mov­ing to com­mem­o­rate WWII mas­sacres of Pol­ish civil­ians by Ukrain­ian fas­cists from OUN/B. Poland is protest­ing this his­tor­i­cal revi­sion­ism. OUN/B head Stepa­han Ban­dera and Roman Stukhevych (who lead the exter­mi­na­tion of the Lvov Ghetto dur­ing World War II) were named heroes of Ukraine..