Assassination

America as Constitutional Republic: When Can the President Kill?

Doug Bandow | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Targeted Killings, Civil Liberties, Anwar-Al-Awlaki-Killed, Anwar Al Awlaki, Constitution, Terrorism, International Law, Surveillance, Fisa, Barack Obama War on Terrorism, Assassination, Drones, Predator Drones, Hamdi-v-Rumsfeld, War on Terror, War on Terrorism, Politics News

What should be done if there are no obvious battlefields and no certain combatants? Should propagandists be treated as fighters? Are any procedural protections required before a U.S. citizen can be killed?

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The Short Life Expectancy of Iranian Nuclear Scientists: Assassinations with a Message

Haggai Carmon | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Murder, Iran, Social Justice, Attack, United States, Mossad, Israel, Assassination, Missile, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Scientists, World News

Does the killing of nuclear scientists stop or delay the Iranian nuclear weapons plan? Hardly.

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Cain Gets Secret Service Protection After Death Threats

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Protection, White House, Cain, Death Threats, Kill, Secret Service, President, Video, Herman Cain, Republican, Assassination, Gop, Candidate, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Herman Cain on Thursday became the first Republican presidential candidate to receive Secret Service protection. Cain asked for the...

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Did Someone Leave Death Threat On Casey Anthony's Door?

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Casey Anthony Death Threats, Video, Crime, Crime News, Assassination, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, Casey Anthony Assassination Attempt, National Enquirer, Jose Baez, Crime News

You may want to consider donning a pair of quality hip waders before delving into the latest Casey Anthony article in the National Enquirer, according...

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The Wisdom and Power of a Leaderless Resistance

Matthis Chiroux | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Oakland, Leadership, Misinformation, Cointelpro, Police, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Violence, Assassination, General Assembly, New York, Politics News

Have you ever been asked what a leader is to you? Of course you have; we're obsessed with the worship of these few. But the Occupy movement has no place for them, which the mainstream media just can't understand.

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Neocons Say 'Red Line' Crossed After Iran Terror Plot: 'We've Got To Put Out Hands Around Their Throat Now'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Assassination, Neoconservatives, House Committee on Homeland Security, Video, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans gave the stage Wednesday to hardliners who called for everything from cyber attacks to political assassinations in res...

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Santorum Backs Assassinating Foreign Nuclear Scientists

Easley Patch | Jeff Brush and Shawn Drury | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Russia, South Carolina Primary, Nuclear Weapons, Republican Presidential Candidates, North Korea Nuclear Program, Nuclear Scientist, Rick Santorum, Russia Nuclear Weapons, Rick Santorum 2012, Assassination, Iran, Republican Presidential Primary 2012, Election 2012, Iran Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, Politics News

At a campaign stop on Tuesday in Greenville, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum spoke at length about foreign policy....

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Hillary Clinton Wants Gaddafi Killed

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Gaddafi, Political Assassination, Libya, Killed, Assassination, Dead, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Gadhafi, World News

This week Hillary Clinton openly seemed to call for the political assassination of Moammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. But this is actually against US law.

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King's Eloquence Goes Far Beyond "I Have A Dream"

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2011

The best-known parts of "I Have A Dream" have entered into a sort of comfortable familiarity, which allows everyone to view them without being challenged by the more pointed things Dr. King had to say that day.

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A Secret War in 120 Countries

Nick Turse | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Assassination, Somalia, Yemen, Terrorism, Special Ops, Navy Seals, War, Politics News

While it's well known that U.S. Special Operations forces are deployed in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the full extent of their worldwide war has remained deeply in the shadows.

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The News of the World, the Profumo Affair and the Planned Military Coup

John Fleming | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Assassination, Airport, Airey Neave, House of Commons, Harold Wilson, Harold Macmillan, Rupert Murdoch, News of the World, News International, Politics News

I studied journalism at college - well, radio, TV and journalism. The man in charge of the journalism part of the course was the Production Editor of...

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Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Assassination, Afghanistan-Assassinations-Ahmad-Wali-Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, Afghanistan, World News

KABUL -- Around 11 a.m. this morning, Kandahar time, Ahmed Wali Karzai, the controversial half brother of President Hamid Karzai and the most powerful...

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Did We Save Bin Laden From a "Fate Worse Than Death"?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Gerald Ford, Ron Paul, Assassination, Michael Moore, Frank Church, Bin Laden, Castro, President Carter, President Reagan, Al Quada, Politics News

It would have been better and wiser for us and the world -- and worse for al Qaeda -- if we hadn't summarily assassinated Osama bin Laden.

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Was Pablo Neruda Murdered?

John Lundberg | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Chile, Murder, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende, Assassination, Neruda Poetry, Augusto Pinochet, Poetry, Books News

Pablo Neruda once wrote, "We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence." But just how the great poet arrived at his ultimate silence is the subject of heated debate in his home country, Chile.

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The War on Terror and Ghosts of Osama Bin Laden

Rizwan A. Rahmani | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Oabama Administration, War on Terror, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan, Morality, Harry Truman, Navy SEAL, Assassination, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Is there a shadow on our national psyche cast by bin Laden and the War on Terror?

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The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Anwar Al Awlaki, Yemen, Nuremberg Trials, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Assassination, Drones, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Osama bin Laden and the "suspected militants" targeted in drone attacks should have been arrested and tried in U.S. courts or an international tribunal. Obama cannot serve as judge, jury and executioner.

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The Case for a Pluralistic Pakistan: A Pakistani-American Perspective

Taha Gaya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shahbaz Bhatti, Quaid-E-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Greg Mortenson, TCF, Blashemy Laws, Killing, Three Cups of Tea, Christian Pakistani, Pakistan, DIL, American, Jinnah, Salman Taseer, Assassination, World News

Our culture and our faith is not one that denigrates and assassinates people of other faiths and perspectives but one that honors diversity and seeks to share common values of humanity.

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Pakistani Christians Mourn, Protest In Wake Of Killing

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shahbaz Bhatti, Christian Minister, Religious Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti Killed, Pakistani Christians, Pakistan, Christianity, Assassination, Christian Schools, Religion News

By Anto Akkara Religion News Service BANGALORE, India -- Christian schools across Pakistan shut down on Thursday (March 3) for a three-day protest of...

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Assassination, Slavery And The Fight For Power: Frohawk Two Feathers In LA

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Acrylic, Caribbean, War of Knives, The Crocodile Company, Haiti, Slavery, War, Tea on Paper, Assassination, Frohawk Two Feathers, Taylor De Cordoba, Machete, Los Angeles, Portraits, Arts News

WHO: Frohawk Two Feathers WHAT: Crocodile Company Part I. La Guerre Des Machettes Danseuses (The War of The Dancing Machetes) WHEN: February 19 ...

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Swedish PM's Murder Still A Mystery After 130 Confessions

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sweden Prime Minister, Olof Palme, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden Prime Minister Murder, Unsolved Murder, Olof Palme Murder Case, Assassination, Olof Palme Assassination, World News

STOCKHOLM — Investigators say about 130 people have confessed to the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, but the case remains unsolved ...

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The Inner Circle: Where's The Rest Of The Story?

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Archives, George Washington, Brad Meltzer, Dc, Assassination, Washigton, Books News

Novelist Brad Meltzer weaves a story of political intrigue, but his latest novel The Inner Circle feels like a story only half told.

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Political Violence: What Other Countries Have Dealt With Assassinations?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Queen Beatrix, Assassination Attempts @Y:World, Fidel Castro, Benazir Bhutto, Arizona Shooting, Salmaan Taseer, Pakistan, Slidepollajax, Gabrielle Giffords, Cuba, Jared Loughner, Assassination, World News

Democractic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition after Saturday's grisly shootings in Arizona, which left six people dead. S...

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Another Gun Myth Bites The Dust

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mental Distress, Not Ideology Likely Loughner's Main Accomplice

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Renaissance, Assassination, Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner, Sarah Palin, Politics News

While it is still early, the most prominent emerging accomplice in this attack is for many also the least satisfying: mental illness.

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Threats Against Congress Rise, But Danger Is Nothing New

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Assassination, Gabrielle Giffords, Congress, Extremism, Jared Loughner, Politics News

While history affords many examples of attacks on legislators, today's inflamed political environment may put them particularly at risk. Representatives may be viewed as targets for aggression and scapegoating.

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