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Author: Kevin Barrett

Author, journalist, radio host. Ph.D. Islamic Studies/Arabic. Frequent TV & radio guest. Skeptical of official stories. Enjoys debating Fox hosts & Zionists.

WHO’s paranoid?! My letter to Jonathan Kay of the National Post

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Jonathan Kay of the Canadian National Post libeled me outrageously in his book Among the Truthers.Now Joshua Blakeney informs me that Kay mentioned me in a recent speech to the Hannah Arendt Center.  The good news is that this time he doesn’t libel me. The bad news is that his speech continues the assault on reason, disguised as a defense of reason, that he began in his book.Below is my letter briefly responding to the Arendt Center speech.   Jon, In your speech to the Arendt Center (I’m a fan of Hannah Arendt by the way) in which you kindly…

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Islam and liberty: Contradictory or complementary?

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In his classic On Liberty, John Stuart Mill observes: “Wherever the (religious) sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.”* More than 150 years later, Mill’s dictum holds true. In irreligious Europe, as in the great coastal metropolitan centers of the USA, there is little legal or social pressure to obey religious dictates; whereas in the Islamic world, and parts of the American heartland, where deeply religious majorities exist, religious opinion demands obeisance on important matters. Is religion, then, an impediment to liberty? Can liberty flower…

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US Empire critic William Blum, investigative journalist Russ Baker

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Truth Jihad Radio Wed. 12/21/11, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: William Blum, that illustrious critic of American empire (I call him “the thinking man’s Chomsky”) is the author of the best book ever published about the crimes of empire, Killing Hope. Blum offers qualified support for the Occupy movement: The education which Occupy has caused to be thrust upon the citizenry — about corporate abuse and criminality, political corruption, inequality, poverty, etc., virtually all unprosecuted — would be highly significant if America were a…

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James Petras: The empire is USING “moderate Islam”

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Tuesday, December 20th, 11 a.m. to noon Central (9-10 Pacific) on NoLiesRadio.org (archived here a few hours after broadcast). Guest: Leading leftist sociologist and political analyst James Petras, who says the Empire is USING “moderate Islam.” He writes: “Moderate” Islamists have become the Empire’s ‘contraceptive of choice’ against any chance the massive Arab peoples’ revolt might give birth to substantive egalitarian social changes and bring those brutal pro- western officials, responsible for so many crimes against humanity, to justice. The West and their client officials in the military and police have agreed to a kind of “power-sharing’ with the moderate/respectable…

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“Classroom Silence on 9/11: A Failure of Education?”

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Truth Jihad Radio Mon. 12/19/11, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. Today’s topic: “Truth in Academia: Antinomy or Oxymoron?” Guests: James Fetzer and Four Arrows – two professors who have struggled for truth in academia. (Four Arrows has just published a peer-reviewed paper entitled “Classroom Silence on 9/11: A Failure of Education?”) The late, great Lynn Margulis said on my radio show that the American public’s inability to recognize the obvious controlled demolition of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers represents a catastrophic failure of American science…

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Biggest anti-Semitic slur of the year: “Palestine is the Holy Land”

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Wiesenthal Center names top 10 anti-Semitic slursDecember 13, 2011NEW YORK (JTA) – A comment by Mahmoud Abbas referring to Palestine as the “holy land” placed first in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Top 10 Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2011. The Palestinian Authority president made the remark at the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23. “I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the birthplace of Jesus Christ peace be upon him, to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people,” he said. *…

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William Lind, Alan Hart, Colleen Rowley on TJ Radio today!

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Truth Jihad Radio Fri. 12/16/11, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. Special three-guest lineup! William S. Lind is a founder of Fourth Generation Warfare Theory, a former aide to Senators Robert Taft and Gary Hart, a co-author of Sen. Gary Hart’s book on military reform, and one of America’s leading conservative pundits. We will discuss (among other things) his support of public transportation, as explained in the book he co-authored with Paul M. Weyrich Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation. Alan Hart is the former lead BBC…

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Libertarian VP candidate & 9/11 truth filmmaker Art Olivier, David Ray Griffin assistant Elizabeth Woodworth

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Truth Jihad Radio Wed. 12/14/11, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: Art Olivier ran against Dick Cheney in 2000 (Art was the Libertarian). If he’d known what was coming, he could have promised not to blow up the World Trade Center, and taken away all of Cheney’s votes. He also ran against Schwarzenegger in 2006. Now he’s involved with a brand-new 9/11 truth feature film, Operation Terror (watch the trailer). Second hour: David Ray Griffin’s assistant Elizabeth Woodworth is a key player in Consensus911.org, which…

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In which I turn myself in for Indefinite Military Detention

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Sent to:  www.dhs.gov/xutil/contactus.shtm  Dear DHS, As someone who could be said to “substantially support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces,” I am writing to turn myself in under the new NDAA law. Please send a US military brigade, preferably the Marines (semper fi, guys!) to indefinitely detain me. (I’d prefer the Marines because I’m a big fan of Gen. Smedley Butler – and I LOVE Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. I mean, let’s face it, compared to the other services, the Marines are seriously cool.) I suppose you want me to explain what “substantially support” means. Well, I’m wondering about that…

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Dave Slesinger, Peter Kirstein on TJ Radio today

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David Slesinger and Howard ZinnFirst hour: David Slesinger of 911Courage.org, organizer with Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. David is planning an exciting civil disobedience action (on behalf of 911Courage, NOT AE911Truth – he wears two separate hats with the two groups). David is also a key player in the movement for justice for murdered 9/11 whistleblower Barry Jennings. Second hour: Academic freedom fighter Peter Kirstein returns to Truth Jihad Radio! He will discuss the Loretta Capeheart case (Loretta was Friday’s guest) among other topics. In that case, administrators at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) are arguing in court that faculty…

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