Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010 Stranger Than Fiction: Underwear Bomb Detroit Airliner Terror Incident Robert Fisk: The silent cleric who holds the key to Iran's future: We like to believe – and newspapers and television like us to believe – that the battle for Iran is being fought on the streets of Tehran, of Isfahan, of Najafabad. Untrue.
By John Pilger
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’. Continue
EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Bomb
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit. Continue
A Convenience Theory
By Grant Lawrence
I am not one that sees conspiracies everywhere, but I do like a good Convenience Theory. Like the one that is coming together out of the botched terror attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an airliner in Detroit just as it was arriving. Continue
Thursday, 31 December 2009
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