Dollars for Terror: A Review

In Dollars for Terror, Swiss journalist Richard Labévière lays out a convincing case that the United States, through its proxy, Saudi Arabia, guided the evolution of Islam, cultivating radical strains of Sunni Islamism to combat the modernizing and stabilizing trends of Arab nationalism which threaten US domination of the Middle East.
Written in 2000, Dollars for Terror predates 9/11 and calls into question the premise that Islamic terrorism against the United States is a spontaneous expression of Muslims “hating us for our freedoms.” Labévière instead sets out to demonstrate that radical, political Islam is a calculated tactic used to facilitate Saudi hegemony and American mastery over the oil-rich region stretching from North Africa through the Middle East and across Central Asia.

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Did This Parent Deserve to be Arrested for Speaking Out?

Apparently parents weren’t allowed to interrupt this school board meeting in Baltimore, only submit questions in writing in advance, but this parent did anyway…what else could he do? (Notice the mocking looks he’s getting from the “public servants” at the front of the room.) According to the youtube video post, the parent, Robert Small, was … Read more

FOX News Accidentally Shows Evidence of Syrian REBELS Using Chemical Weapons

While talking about Assad’s chemical weapons yesterday, Fox News mistakenly showed footage I hadn’t seen on mainstream media before–it was footage released by the Syrian government that showed its soldiers finding a stash of chemical weapons and antidotes in a rebel hideout. The Fox footage below shows that the antidotes were made by a Qatari-German company, and of course the Qataris are supplying the rebels not the government. You can see the dirty containers on the chemicals, the cellophane covers tied on – definitely not government issue!
Be sure to watch the Fox News video, but also the video below that one, which shows the complete footage released by the Syrian government. This is just one piece of the wealth of compelling evidence that the rebels have used chemical weapons – so why aren’t we turning our Tomahawk Missiles on them?
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Check out the original video released by the Syrian government…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGz_LCGg2TI

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was a Radical Islamist AND a Right-Wing Extremist?

Today’s Wall Street Journal had an article on the cover page titled Boston Bombing Suspect Was Steeped In Conspiracies. At first I didn’t know what they were going for. I thought perhaps the media/government thought it would be handy to be able to blame the Boston Marathon Bombing both on radical Islamists AND right-wing extremists … Read more

It's Not Right vs. Right, It's Us vs. Them

Much is being made in the news right now about a GOP that is pulling itself apart. The common representation of the struggle is that it is a battle between the far right and the far, far right, or as Mother Jones framed it in describing the Karl Rove PAC dedicated to supporting hand-picked Republicans … Read more