Tag Archives: Attempt

Terror Dry Run, Cluelessness Or Lawfare?

By Gideon Swift | Published: September 3, 2010
Source: ThreatsWatch.Org Was the incident earlier this week involving two airline passengers of Yemeni origin really a terrorist dry run as initially reported? Was it all just a big misunderstanding as is now being reported as claimed by the Department of Homeland Security? Or was it somewhere in between – an act of lawfare in [...]
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The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 15, 2010
Source: Salon.com The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months [...]
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Army Investigates Alleged Attempt by Soldiers to Poison Food at Fort Jackson

By Gideon Swift | Published: February 19, 2010
The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. The ongoing probe began two months ago, Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, told Fox News. The Army is taking the allegations “extremely seriously,” Grey said, but so far, “there [...]
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Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers’ anonymity

By Gideon Swift | Published: February 14, 2010
The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a “driver’s licence” should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs [...]
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Coming to a town near you? Eco-wall or segregation: Rio plan stirs debate

By Gideon Swift | Published: December 9, 2009
Cement-block walls are being built around the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Authorities say it’s to save rainforests. The city’s poorest residents say it’s an attempt to shut them out.…The state of Rio de Janeiro began building the wall around Santa Marta in March, and it plans to spend $17 million on similar walls around [...]
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