Noam Chomsky: The "Illegal" US Threat On Syria And 9/11

"He (Obama) can maintain the threat of force, which incidentally is a crime under international law, that we should bear in mind that the core principle of the United Nations Charter bars the threat or use of force, threat or use of force. So all of this is criminal."

September 11, 2013

Part 2

Chomsky on 9/11

"My own view is that we should be concentrating on the first 9/11, the one in Chile, which was a much worse attack, by any dimension."

Taken from http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36201.htm

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Reality Check: More Americans Are “Rethinking” 9/11?

September 10, 2013 "Information Clearing House - Did you know that a 3rd building fell on 9-11?  That bill board is today over Times Square.  It was placed there through donations to a campaign called Rethink 9/11.

In fact, that group has placed posters and signs across the world, from Australia, to Canada, from San Francisco to right here in New York City.

So what is Rethink 9/11?  Wouldn’t only a fringe group of people would still question 9/11?  Perhaps not, because today we will tell you about new polling that shows a majority of those polled either question the official 9/11 story or don’t believe it at all.  Is that possible?

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Looming Airstrikes in Syria Pose Test for Egypt’s Leaders and the Opposition

CAIRO — Egyptians on Thursday braced for the ninth weekend of protests against the military’s ouster of the country’s president as the looming possibility of Western airstrikes against Syria injected a new element of volatility onto the streets. 

The degree of participation and violence at the protests expected on Friday will be a pivotal test of the effectiveness of the new government’s crackdown on the supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, especially his Islamist allies in the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Small protests in certain neighborhoods of Cairo, the capital, and larger demonstrations in other Egyptian cities have continued every night since Mr. Morsi’s ouster on July 3, despite an evening curfew, the suspension of due process and a wave of mass shootings and arrests by security forces that have decimated the Brotherhood. But the group’s decapitation as an organizing force has made the continuing protest movement harder to predict or control, potentially increasing the chances of violence. 

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Egypt Speeds Use of Trials for Jailing of Islamists

CAIRO — The two-month-old Egyptian government on Tuesday stepped up its use of swift military trials to lock up Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, while an administrative court banned four satellite networks considered sympathetic to them, including an Egyptian affiliate of Al Jazeera. 

Although the government has promised a prompt return to inclusive democracy and the rule of law, the military trials and network closings extended its use of authoritarian tactics as it widens its crackdown on Morsi supporters and the Muslim Brotherhood. 

On Tuesday, a military court in Suez sentenced a man described as a Brotherhood member to life in prison for violence directed at the Army. Forty-eight others were given sentences of 5 to 15 years in prison for similar charges, and 12 were acquitted, state news media reported. 

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