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Former Intel Chief: Call Off The Drone War (And Maybe the Whole War on Terror) | Danger Room | Wired.com Previous post Next post Former Intel Chief: Call Off The Drone War (And Maybe the Whole War on Terror) By Noah Shachtman July 28, 2011 | 9:48 pm | Categories: Tactics, Strategy and Logistics Follow @dangerroom ASPEN, Colorado — Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to ...

Wealth Gap Widens Between US Whites, Minorities : Information Clearing House: ICH July 26, 2011 " Associated Press " --- The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels since the U.S. government began tabulating them a quarter-century ago. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data. The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the recent economic meltdown, which ravaged housing values and sent unemployment soaring. It also offers the most direct government evidence yet of the stark wealth divide, a disparity between predominantly younger minorities whose main asset is their home and older whites who are more likely to have 401(k) retirement accounts or other stock holdings. "I am afraid that this pushes us back to wha...

NATO ‘Flexible’ on Gadhafi as Stalemate Continues -- News from Antiwar.com NATO officials are once again signaling their willingness to allow Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi to remain in the country , backing away from demands earlier in the war that his departure be a condition for ending the conflict.

NATO Strike Kills 7 at Libya Hospital -- News from Antiwar.com A NATO airstrike killed seven people in a hospital in Zlitan, western Libya, on Monday, according to locals and government officials. Medical equipment was visible among the twisted wreckage of the building, the Associated Press reports , after being taken on a government tour of the site. “In this whole area there is no military,” an ambulance driver told the AP.

Bill O'Reilly: Media Labeling Norway Killer Breivik 'Christian' Because 'They Don't Like Christians' (VIDEO) Bill O'Reilly sternly criticized the media for describing Anders Behring-Breivik , the man who has admitted to committing the mass killings in Norway, as a Christian, saying that such a thing was "impossible." O'Reilly singled out the New York Times, which called Breivik a "Christian extremist" in an article. Breivik also referred to himself as a Christian, as did the Norwegian police, and his 1,500 page manifesto has been described as coming from a Christian perspective. In the manifesto, he writes that he does not have a "personal," religious relationship with Christ, believes in Christianity "as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform," which he says "makes [me] Christian." To O'Reilly, though, it was "impossible" that Breivik is a Christian. "No one beli...

The Omnipotence of Al Qaeda and Meaninglessness of "Terrorism" : Information Clearing House: ICH By Glenn Greenwald July 25, 2011 "Salon" -- July 23, 2011 -- F or much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on the BBC and elsewhere that Muslims were the culprits. The Washington Post 's Jennifer Rubin wrote a whole column based on the assertion that Muslims were responsible, one that, as James Fallows notes , remains at the Post with no corrections or updates. The morning statement issued by President Obama -- "It's a reminder that the entire international community holds a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring" and "we have to work cooperatively together both on intelligence and...

Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S. - NYTimes.comThe man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.

Black Chicago Divided -- In These Times Martavius (Mark) Carter is both the product and perpetrator of a growing class divide in black America. He is a resident of Chicago’s distressed North Lawndale neighborhood and a founding member of the Voice of the Ex-Offender (VOTE), a group created to empower black people who were once imprisoned. The group’s approach is based on a protest model of direct action, and they intend to be a disruptive force. On July 2, two youths enjoy Chicago's North Avenue Beach. Referring to the intense police surveillance, one said he feels as if they were "little kids or something." (Photo by Ryan Williams)