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British Opera Honours 9/11 Victims

A new small British opera, Between Worlds, is attempting to dramatize what it was like for victims in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake have collaborated on a work Drake calls “a requiem

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Hillary, Benghazi, and Those Troublesome E-mails

In late December, 2013 The New York Times whitewashed the Benghazi Islamist terrorist attack, claiming that based “on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”

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Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani Addresses Congress

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani gave an hour-long address to Congress on Wednesday, in which he mused that his country’s longstanding position as the graveyard of empires is quite exhausting to the Afghan people. Having established their reputation as fierce, stubborn fighters, they would really like to move on to a more productive future. “‘Ordinary’ is what has escaped us, and what we’d really like is to lead totally ordinary lives,” he said.

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Farrakhan: Lying, Murderous Israelis and Zionist Jews Behind 9/11

Sunday in Chicago at Saviours’ Day 2015 Part 2, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said, “Israelis and Zionist Jews,” were behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, calling them “thieves, liars and murderers.” Farrakhan  said “We now know that

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Saudi Arabia and 9/11: The Real Connection

Many expect a smoking gun to be found in the 28 still-classified pages of the official 9/11 Commission Report, evidence linking Saudi Arabia to Al Qaeda. The truth about the Kingdom’s links to the Global Jihadi Movement is historic and already established.

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Senator Cotton: Terrorists ‘Can Rot In Hell’

On February 4, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) lashed out against those pretending the closure of Guantanamo Bay will save America from terror attacks and said that as far as he’s concerned, terrorists “can rot in hell.”

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’20th Hijacker’ Moussaoui Charges Saudi Royals with Funding Al-Qaeda

Zacarias Moussaoui, the “20th hijacker” from the 9/11 terror plot, has been in U.S. custody for the past 13 years under a sentence of life in prison. Last October, he gave testimony from the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, as part of a civil suit filed by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia.

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Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll an Icon to 9/11 Truthers

As the Seattle Seahawks ready to compete in another Super Bowl to the delight of team’s loud and loyal fans, head coach Pete Carroll has become an icon with a group who backs him not because of his accomplishments on the gridiron. The 9/11 Truther movement has adopted Carroll as a celebrity icon.

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It’s Time to De-Romanticize Terror

We have all heard the dramatic tale of how terrorists come from poor, oppressed families and are virtually forced into terrorism to escape discrimination and poverty. Young, desperate and idealistic, they turn to terror as their only way out of the hellhole into which society has buried them.

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Bloomberg: Don’t Judge Immigrants by Charlie Hebdo Massacre; 9/11 Terrorists Were Just ‘Visitors’

An op-ed by the editors of Bloomberg equates “anti-immigration nativists” with the Islamic terrorists who slaughtered the staff of Charlie Hebdo Magazine Wednesday. In its rush to attack anti-immigration activists, the piece says immigration had nothing to do with 9/11, calling the terror attack’s perpetrators “outsiders who entered the country as visitors.”

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Massive Media Fail: Only 29% Oppose CIA Interrogation Methods

A Pew Research poll finds that the mainstream media and Democrats failed miserably in their coordinated attacks against the Bush Administration (and America) over Bush-era enhanced interrogation methods employed by the CIA against 3 terrorists to stop future terror attacks

Massive Media Fail: Only 29% Oppose CIA Interrogation Methods

Obama Touts Troops in Weekly Address

In his weekly address this week, President Barack Obama dedicated the time slot to the troops and announced a tip to Fort Dix, NJ next week. Transcript as follows: Hi, everybody. It’s the holidays—a season to give thanks for our

Obama Touts Troops in Weekly Address

CIA Fights Back After Torture Report

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate’s investigation into the CIA’s harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world. The Senate intelligence

CIA Fights Back After Torture Report

9/11’s ’20th Hijacker’ Wants Transfer to Gitmo

Zacarias Moussaoui, also known as the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked a South Florida federal judge Wednesday for a transfer to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Associated Press reported.  Moussaoui is serving a life sentence

9/11’s ’20th Hijacker’ Wants Transfer to Gitmo

Why Vox Should Be Illegal

While basically a First Amendment absolutist, there may be an argument for making Vox.com – the seemingly brainless brain child of Leftist Ezra Klein – illegal as an act of education, if not compassion, as the crew at Vox doesn’t

We Won the Cold War. Maybe.

Twenty five years ago yesterday the Cold War official ended. With the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the West, led by America, triumphed over the murderous ideology of Communism. Two Gulf wars, the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan

We Won the Cold War. Maybe.