Al Qaeda Terror Plot to Blow Up Train Foiled by RCMP, FBI in Cross-Border Cooperation

ICTMN Staff
April 22, 2013
Two alleged Al Qaeda–supported terrorists planning to attack Via Rail Canada, the government-owned rail system, somewhere between Toronto and New York City have been arrested, auth...

New NDAA Keeps Indefinite Detention, Blocks Guantanamo Closure

Gale Courey Toensing
January 07, 2013
President Barack Obama has signed the $633 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 along with a signing statement objecting to many of its provisions – but the provision...

Senate Passes 2013 National Defense Authorization Act; Feinstein Amendment May Extend Indefinite Detention Power

Gale Courey Toensing
December 06, 2012
The Senate approved the $631 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013 with an amendment that intends to protect U.S...
Steve Russell

Alias: Malala Yousafzai

It is we sinful women

who come out raising the banner of truth

up against barricades of lies on the highways

who find stories of persecution piled on each threshold...

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October 22, 2012
Steve Russell

Losing the War on Terror

The terrorists beat us on 9/11 in that they changed our lives for the worse. I am reminded of President Bush's asinine remark, "They hate us for our freedom." I used to joke about the corollary to that. If our own government took away our freedom, would "they" still hate us?...

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August 08, 2012

Protests Against Indefinite-Detention Law Roll in From Across Nation

Gale Courey Toensing
March 26, 2012
Mongi Dhaouadi, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations , Connecticut Chapter, hosted the meeting, which he organized with activist Chris Gauvreau...

Andrew Jackson’s Actions Model Anti-Speech, Perpetual War Legislation

Gale Courey Toensing
June 07, 2011
Andrew Jackson ’s illegal and heavily censured actions during the First Seminole War in 1817 were cited recently during the military trial of a Guantanamo prisoner and was used as ...
Steve Newcomb

Andrew Jackson and the USA Global War Bill

In March 2011, the U.S. government filed a response brief to two appeals by two Guantanamo Bay detainees. They had been convicted of "providing material support for terrorism" and their defense contended that the charge was not a war crime subject to military tribunal jurisdiction....

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June 02, 2011

Military Prosecutors Pull Away from Analogy Likening Seminoles to al Qaeda

Michelle Tirado
April 01, 2011
Pentagon prosecutors who compared Seminole Indians from the first Seminole War in the early 1800s to al Qaeda in a brief filed with a U.S...

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