FTR #640 Winging It with Daniel Hopsicker

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lated use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Saudi 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­matic, par­ent com­pany of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijackers.

FTR #637 Catching Up with Daniel Hopsicker

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lated use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Saudi 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­matic, par­ent com­pany of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijackers.

Saudi Arabia is prime source of terror funds, U.S. says

Trea­sury offi­cial expresses frus­tra­tions with the administration’s efforts to force action by the king­dom. A Sen­ate panel orders a review.
by Josh Meyer
LOS ANGELES TIMESWASHINGTON — Saudi Ara­bia remains the world’s lead­ing source of money for Al Qaeda and other extrem­ist net­works and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. offi­cials to stem the flow, [...]

Al-Arian Gets Visitors During Hunger Strike

by Keith Morelli
TAMPA TRIBUNE
TAMPA — Sami Al-Arian, the for­mer Uni­ver­sity of South Florida pro­fes­sor who remained in a Vir­ginia prison on con­tempt of court charges despite his acquit­tal on seri­ous ter­ror­ist charges, has lost 32 pounds in a month-long hunger strike, accord­ing to an Islamic group’s exec­u­tive direc­tor who vis­ited Al-Arian on Mon­day.
Sami Al-Arian (2002)
Al-Arian [...]

Fascist Ecology: The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents

Excerpt fromEco­fas­cism: Lessons from the Ger­man Expe­ri­enceby Janet Biehl and Peter Stau­den­maier1995, AK Pres­sISBN 1–873176 73 2
pp 4–12
“We rec­og­nize that sep­a­rat­ing human­ity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind’s own destruc­tion and to the death of nations. Only through a rein­te­gra­tion of human­ity into the whole of nature can our peo­ple be made [...]

Spitzer’s mouthpiece has his own secrets to hide

by Peter LanceRAW STORY
As the sex scan­dal hur­ri­cane engulfed Eliott Spitzer last week, one of his clos­est advi­sors at the eye of the storm was Diet­rich “Dieter” Snell. An ex U.S. Attor­ney from the same office con­duct­ing the pros­ti­tu­tion probe, Snell is now defend­ing Spitzer in the “Troop­er­gate” scan­dal and report­edly rak­ing in hun­dreds of [...]

A Congressman for Jihad

by Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com

For­mer U.S. Con­gress­man Mark Deli Sil­jan­der (R-MI) was indicted Wednes­day for money laun­der­ing, con­spir­acy and obstruc­tion of jus­tice, in con­nec­tion with charges that a Mus­lim char­ity, the Islamic Amer­i­can Relief Agency (IARA), was involved in efforts to finance the Afghan jihad ter­ror­ist Gul­bud­din Hek­mat­yar. The IARA was named a [...]

For Sale: The West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets

THE SUNDAY TIMES

Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria

A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extra­or­di­nary claims about how cor­rupt gov­ern­ment offi­cials allowed Pak­istan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old for­mer Turk­ish lan­guage trans­la­tor for the FBI, lis­tened into hun­dreds of sen­si­tive inter­cepted con­ver­sa­tions while [...]

FBI’s Latest Outreach Outrage

by Steven Emer­sonIPT NEWS
Much has been writ­ten about the U.S. government’s cur­rent bout of schiz­o­phre­nia in its out­reach to the Amer­i­can Mus­lim com­mu­nity, specif­i­cally related to the Depart­ment of Jus­tice. While fed­eral pros­e­cu­tors in Dal­las have labeled sev­eral Islamist orga­ni­za­tions as unin­dicted co-conspirators – describ­ing them as front groups for Hamas and the Mus­lim Brotherhood [...]

Oregon ‘Peace’ Group to Mark Kristallnacht with Holocaust Denial Conference

by Adam Hol­land
Here’s another story con­cern­ing what appears to be a trend: pur­ported “peace activists” pro­mot­ing Holo­caust denial and anti-Semitic con­spir­acy the­ory. In this case, a Uni­ver­sity of Ore­gon peace orga­ni­za­tion called Paci­fica Forum, which was founded and is led by a retired pro­fes­sor and a retired admin­is­tra­tor from that uni­ver­sity, is mark­ing Kristall­nacht with [...]