On December 9, 2014 Senator Chambliss asked for and was granted permission to address teh United States Senate regarding the release of the CIA torture report: “Madam President, I rise today as the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to respond to the public release of the declassified version of the executive […]
Alex Jones and Antigovernment “Patriot” Groups
This past week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released their annual spring report on Hate and Extremist groups in the United States. While “hate groups” have essentially leveled off, white supremacists groups like the neo-Nazis and other anti-Semitic groups like the Nation of Islam, “extremist groups”, antigovernment “Patriot”groups often tied to militias, are on […]
Wikipedia Examines its Dispute Resolution Process: An Invitation to Steven Zhang
Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is always looking for ways to improve itself. This year they have awarded a Wikimedia Fellowship to one of their senior editors, Steven Zhang, to study dispute resolution. The efforts to reform this troubled aspect of their otherwise amazingly effective model cannot come too […]
The Other Face of Terrorism
“When was it that multi-culturalism ceased to be an ideology designed to deconstruct a European culture, traditions, identity and nation-state?” Those are the words of Norwegian right-wing extremist turned terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Now here are the words of a young, but becoming increasingly popular, blogger, “Multi-culturalism, once beyond question, is now increasingly under attack […]
Norwegian terrorist had suspected ties to British radical groups, say police
While Norwegian police officials and prosecutors believe suspected bomber and gunman Anders Breivik was a "lone wolf" terrorist,law enforcement officials from New Scotland Yard in London were contacted by Oslo detectives and asked for information about extremist groups based and operating in the United Kingdom. Oslo police officials investigating Norway’s bomb attack on a government building and mass […]
Intelligence agency cooperation still uncertain, say lawmakers
U.S. Senators last week praised the intelligence community for its role in locating Osama bin Laden but questioned whether the cooperation exhibited in that case is illustrative of the level of integration across the community envisioned by intelligence reform legislation they helped co-author. At the second in a series of hearings the Senate Homeland Security and […]
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