Terrorist

Why is No One Calling the Anthrax Suspect a Terrorist?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Muslim, Pat Leahy, Terrorism, Tom Daschle, Right-Wing, Terrorist, Anthrax Attacks, White, Bruce Ivins, Media, Pro-Life, Press, Christian, Republican, Catholic, Media News

If you don't believe that they're not calling him a terrorist because he's white, let me ask you this question -- what if his name was Sheik al-Abdullah Muhammad?

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Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul

Jennifer Nix | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Nationalism, Short Stories, Literature, To Kill a Mockingbird, Police, Chicago, Anarchist, Xenophobia, George W. Bush, George Lakoff, Progressives, Fiction, Pet Goat, Terrorist, Immigration, Democrats, Bestsellers, Politics of Fear, Politics, History, Activism, Racism, Nonfiction, Aleksandar Hemon, Grapes of Wrath, Fox News Channel, The Lazarus Project, Sarajevo, Huffpost Books, Living News

I once again see the potential and power of literature, and hope to tell new and necessary stories. As activists, we must not lose sight of art. Here are some questions I posed to Aleksandar Hemon.

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Baghdad Car Bomb Kills Over 50, Wounds 75

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, War on Terror, Terrorism, Car Bombing, Terrorist, Car Bomb, Baghdad Market Bombs, Insurgency, Baghdad Car Bomb, Iraq Car Bomb, Baghdad, Shiite, Security, Iraq, Guerilla Warfare, Politics News

BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding sco...

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Join Me in National "Screw the Oil Companies and Terrorists" Week

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Oil Cartel, Oil Companies, Fertilizer, Food, Carbon, Terrorist, Oil, Rightwing Republicans, Democrats, Economy, Gas Prices, Energy Independence, Environmental Solutions, Green News

Current debates about energy independence are future-oriented, and will do nothing in the short term to ease economic woes. Let's use the internet to stop the bleeding: take up the following challenge.

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What You Don't Know Might Kill You -- And Everyone Else

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reliable Replacement Warhead, Threat, Education, US House of Representatives, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Council for a Livable World, Terrorist, Nonproliferation Treaty, Congress, William Perry, Peace, Steve Pearce, Rrw, Politics News

Nuclear weapons are seen as the most serious and immediate threat to human life on the planet, but few of us know much about that threat.

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Security Flaws, Terrorists & Nuclear Weapons

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Weapons-Free World, University of California, Nuclear Weapons, International Cooperation, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Bechtel, Terrorist, Sam Nunn, Fissile Material, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Nuclear Policy, US Leadership, Politics News

It may come as a surprise that a storehouse of 2,000 pounds of plutonium and weapons-grade uranium -- estimated to be enough to build 300 nuclear weapons -- sits only about 40 miles from San Francisco.

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Guess Who's Been Negotiating with a Terrorist?

James Heffernan | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Petraeus, Al-Maliki, Moktada Al-Sadr, Mccain, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Basra, Terrorist, President Bush, Politics News

So long as Iraq is chiefly run by Shiites, we will never resolve its political or military conflicts without major involvement by its next-door neighbor, the Shiite nation of Iran.

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Woody Allen Meets Tongue Fu

Paul Krassner | Posted 01.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Mae Brussell, Vietnam, Stewart Brand, Satire, Woody Allen, Suicide Bomber, Terrorist, Charles Manson, New Age, Conspiracy, Iraq, Gurus, Ed Sanders, Home News

[A small independent publisher, Ronin, has just released a new edition of my tale of a Japanese-American man who goes to a summer camp for gurus. Bel...

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Fear Factors

August J. Pollak | Posted 09.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Fear, Terrorist, Terrorism, 2008 Election, Fred Thompson, Campaign, Pundit, Politics News

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Idea For Terrorists: Kill Dogs, Not People

Jonah Peretti | Posted 08.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Dog, Dogs, Michael Vick, Terror, Terrorist, Terrorism, Levitt, Controversy, Brilliant Idea, Politics News

Economist Steven Levitt recently caused a stir when he asked New York Times readers to submit clever ideas for how they would plan terrorist attacks.

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