By Sami Jamil Jadallah As an American and as a Muslim, I could not but feel the pain and loss the family of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith and other officials feel for the lost of their loved ones. I feel the loss of my nation America and my people Americans and […]
Archive for September, 2012
In Praise of the “American Values”
Mom and Apple Pie The current economic downturn has become life and death issue for the American public and their Government. What led it to its current state, who was/were responsible, and how it can recover are the topics filling up mainstream media and blogsphere for the past five years. Economists view it, as […]
US/Argentina Tie Seimens to Organized Crime
—— By Press TV —- Carlos Moran filed his lawsuit in a federal court in Miami on Thursday, and is now demanding a compensation of USD 100 million from the Munich-based company, Bloomberg reported. Moran said he was working for the Argentinean regulatory agency in 2000, when he discovered numerous inconsistencies in a one-billion-dollar contract […]
Iran: Zionists have reached end of line: Ahmadinejad
——- By Press TV —– “I am confident that Zionists are goners and the world will be freed from their existence and justice will be established,” Ahmadinejad said on Friday. Although Zionists will fail to achieve their goals, all nations should remain vigilant against their plots, he added. The Iranian president said US decision-makers directing […]
Guardian: Anti-Islam Film Never Existed
Mystery deepens over US film linked to Benghazi protests ——– Cast say they were misled as evidence suggests film was post- dubbed and questions arise over funding and identity of director ——— By Rory Carroll, Guardian.co.uk ——– (Photo and video not Guardian whose article is deceptive and contradictory, Editor) The anti-Islamic video that inflamed mayhem in […]
Taylor Swift – Ronan’s Song, a Magic Carpet to Fly Away
What Can a Four Year Old Boy Teach Us All About Living and Dying? …by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor Taylor Swift delivers her signature song for Ronan I had never heard about Ronan Thompson before today. As usual I just bumped into his story while quickly scanning page links while working on […]
Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative
By Khalil Nouri, Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. – The New World Strategies Coalition, a think tank founded by native Afghans which creates nonmilitary solutions for Afghanistan, released its latest policy brief today entitled, Pashtun Awakening: Defeat the Taliban by Changing the Narrative. The policy brief outlines a solution for resolving the situation in Afghanistan by […]
Top Ten Reasons Obama Will Appear on Letterman instead of Meeting Netanyahu
The views expressed herein are the views of the author exclusively and not necessarily the views of VT or any other VT authors, affiliates, advertisers, sponsors or partners. Legal Notice Posted by Kevin Barrett on Sep 15 2012, With 0 Reads, Filed under Humor, Of Interest. You can follow any responses to this entry through […]
No ‘Red Line’ for Israel
By Gilad Atzmon Israeli news outlets reported today that President Obama rejected an appeal by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to set a specific “red line” to stop any further Iranian uranium enrichment. According to reports, in an hour-long conversation on Tuesday, Obama deflected Netanyahu’s proposal to make the size of Iran’s stockpile of close-to-bomb-grade […]
AntiSec hackers retaliate after Anon-collaborator arrested by FBI
In retaliation for a Wednesday night raid that ended with frequent Anonymous collaborator Barrett Brown placed in federal custody, the group AntiSec has released credit card data believed to belong to more than a dozen government officers. The Dallas home of Project PM founder Barrett Brown, an independent researcher, activist and informal spokesperson for Anonymous, […]
One-fifth of US children are living in poverty
A just released analysis of recent census statistics reveal that more than one-in-five children in the United States lives in poverty. Demographers have mulled through US Census Bureau figures from 2011 to discover that economic conditions in the US may be even worse than what experts had previously suggested. In addition to the continuously stagnant […]
Twitter hands over Occupy protester’s tweets to NY judge
Twitter has delivered prosecutors in New York with a record of tweets sent by one of its users arrested last year during an Occupy Wall Street protest after being threatened in court with hefty fines if they didn’t comply. Around three months’ worth of tweets from an account registered to Brooklyn-based writer Malcolm Harris was […]
American killed in Libya was on State Department intelligence operation
One of the four Americans killed in Libya earlier this week when an American diplomatic mission was stormed on September 11 had been deployed by the US State Department on an intelligence gathering operation to find and destroy dangerous weapons. Glen Doherty, a 42-year-old former Navy SEAL, told ABC News only one month before his […]
Students allowed on campus after Texas University confirms ‘al-Qaeda bomb threat’
Students at two universities in the US have been allowed back on campus after the premises were evacuated due to bomb threats. Officials at the University of Texas at Austin say the man who targeted their school claimed to be a member of al-Qaeda. The Director of Communications at the University of Texas-Austin, Rhonda Weldon, […]
White House continues fight to indefinitely detain Americans without charge under NDAA
Only hours after a US district judge made permanent an injunction that bans the indefinite military detention of Americans without charge, the White House said they’d appeal to continue their efforts to keep a controversial new law on the books. On Thursday, the Obama administration acknowledged that they plan to challenge a ruling made only […]
Ron Paul: ‘The Fed is saying that we have lost control’
The US Federal Reserve announced Thursday that they’ll be implementing a third-round of quantitative easing in an attempt to salvage the faltering economy. Right on cue, one of the Fed’s biggest critics readily objected. Reacting to the announcement to Bloomberg News, presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said he expected that the Fed would reveal […]
UC Davis to pay students pepper-sprayed during protest
The University of California has agreed to compensate students and alumni that were assaulted last year when a US-Davis campus police officer discharged bursts of pepper-spray at the faces of demonstrators peacefully protesting tuition hikes. Members of the UC Regents board agreed Thursday on a settlement that will be extended to a group of protesters […]
Is police brutality getting worse?
It appears the Los Angeles Police Department may find itself on the other side of the law. Civil rights groups are demanding federal investigators look into cases of excessive police force and brutality. Questionable arrests, caught on video, are putting into question the old police motto of “to serve and protect,” and communities are fighting […]
Maryland police buying cameras to keep track of other cameras
Police in the US state of Maryland have installed surveillance cameras to track down a group of vandals that destroyed speed cameras and caused hundreds of thousands dollars in other damage. Some folks who found the speed cameras frustrating and the fines they brought high or unjustified are taking justice into their own hands, with […]
Wisconsin judge reinstates collective bargaining for state employees
The union-busting law that pushed Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker into the national spotlight last year has been declared unconstitutional by a state judge, pushing the controversy over the law one step closer to a Supreme Court climax. Circuit Judge Juan Colas, of Dane County, where the state’s capital, Madison, is located, ruled that the law […]