Japanese director announces production of Nanjing film to deny massacre
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — When Japanese troops conquered the then-capital of China in 1937, historians agree they slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians in an orgy of violence known since then as the Rape of Nanking. A Japanese nationalist filmmaker announced on Wednesday he is working on a documentary with a very different message: [...]
The “Project”: Muslim Brotherhood blueprint for cultural jihad — English translation
The Muslim Brotherhood “Project“ By Patrick Poolehttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22415One might be led to think that if international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of “cultural [...]
Japan Now Seems Likely to Rally Behind New Prime Minister’s Call for a Stronger Military
by Martin FacklerTHE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO, Oct. 9 — The last time North Korea tested a powerful new weapon, in 1998 when it fired a ballistic missile over the largest Japanese island, Japan reacted by upgrading its military and swinging politically to the right. North Korea’s claim that it tested a nuclear weapon on Monday appears [...]
The Secret Treaty of Fort Hunt
[Originally published in Covert Action Information Bulletin, Fall, 1990] An article by Carl Oglesby William Shirer closed his 1960 masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, with the judgment that the Nazi regime “had passed into history,“1 but we cannot be so confident today. On the contrary, the evidence as of 1990 is [...]
American Coup D’Etat
Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable Eternal vigilance being the price of liberty, Americans—who spent decades war-gaming a Soviet invasion and have taken more recently to daydreaming about “ticking bomb” scenarios—should cast at least an occasional thought toward the only truly existential threat that American democracy might face today. We now live in a unipolar world, [...]
Turk who shot Pope John Paul II is released from prison
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — After 25 years behind bars for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II and fatally gunning down a journalist, Mehmet Ali Agca was released from prison — and promptly gave his supporters and his enemies the slip. Within hours of tasting freedom Thursday for the first time since wounding John Paul in [...]
Cold War, Holy Warrior
Ike was president. Washington was desperate for Arab allies. Enter an Islamist ideologue with an invitation to the White House and a plan for global jihad. by Robert DreyfussMOTHER JONES MAGAZINE In the fall of 1953, the Oval Office was the stage for a peculiar encounter between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a young Middle-Eastern [...]
Bookshelf: Terrorists in Washington
by Alonzo L. Hamby THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AMERICAN GUNFIGHTBy Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge Jr.(Simon & Schuster, 368 pages, $26.95) Forty-two years later, Americans remain transfixed by the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an event that has spawned a cottage industry of articles, books, movies and film documentaries. Killers who rob a nation of a [...]
The Splendid Blond Beast (Excerpt, pp 32–37)
See For The Record Reading List for more about The Splendid Blond Beast.Importantly, Britain, France, and the United States were at that time vying with one another to divide up the vast oil and mineral wealth of Turkey’s Ottoman Empire. Kemal skillfully played the three powers against each other and insisted on amnesty for the [...]
Naming Names: The Bin Laden Galaxy
by Jean-Charles Brisard Jean-Charles Brisard explores the relationships between the Bin Laden family and friends and Osama. The interconnection between these entities is frightening. This book was banned for publishing for three years until a European court recently overruled that motion, which was initiated by the Bin Laden Family. from the original text: Ben Laden: [...]
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