WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court upheld a law that bars Americans from providing support to foreign terrorist groups (declared by the US government on whatever reasons), rejecting arguments that it violated constitutional rights of free speech and association.
The decision came in the first test to reach the Supreme Court after the September 11, 2001, attacks of [...]
Helen Thomas had reported on every US president since John F Kennedy VETERAN US White House reporter Helen Thomas has retired after making "controversial remarks" about Israel.
In an interview on 27 May, she said that Israelis should get "the hell out of Palestine" and suggested they went to Germany, [...]
By JAMES PETRAS
THE Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, and spat in the face of the President … they wiped the spit off their faces and smiled politely … as the saying goes: when you spit in the face of a weakling, he pretends that it [...]
By DAN LIEBERMAN
IMAGINE you are a representative of the highest government agencies. You encounter a group that places a foreign power above your own government’s interests and redirects and undermines your policies. Would you go to their convention, popularize them, obsequiously placate them and demonstrate you mean no harm to their [...]
AFTER months of waiting that ultimately triggered an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit under Freedom of Information Act, the United States government has for the first time offered a legal justification for its' Predator drone program.The principle upon which unmanned weapons are deployed, according to a state [...]
AUSTIN – The federal government may soon send unmanned aircraft to scour West Texas and the state's coastal waters in an effort to boost border security, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to the governor sent Friday.
Perry had formally requested the assistance a week ago. The need also was underscored in [...]
Muslim American activist, Imam Abdul Alim Musa of Masjid Al-Islam in S.E. Washington, DC
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus expert, Berkeley, California
Press TV: Is it not a terrorist act in the full definition of the term terrorism?
Hallinan: Well, I think, all you would have to do is to do what you just did [...]
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Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be Massacred 19 Feb 2010 The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report released Friday [...]
Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians Fiscal Year 2009
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation.
It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate information on this critical issue, and on [...]
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A MAN crashed a small plane Thursday morning into a seven-story office building in Austin, Tex., that houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the authorities said. The pilot was killed. Two people were hospitalized, and one person was still unaccounted for Thursday afternoon. President Obama was briefed on the situation by his counterterrorism [...]
