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An interview with Professor Francis A. Boyle, 14 November 2001 by Dennis Bernstein, host of Flashpoints on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM – Berkeley, California A Coup against the American Constitution Dennis Bernstein: You’re listening to Flashpoints, on KPFA. This is Dennis Bernstein. George W. Bush declared an extraordinary emergency yesterday that empowers him to order military trials for suspected international terrorists and their collaborators, bypassing the American criminal justice system, its rules of evidence and its constitutional guarantees. The presidential directive, signed by Bush as commander-in-chief, applies to non-U.S. citizens arrested in the United States or abroad. Joining us to talk about this extraordinary measure is Professor Francis Boyle. He is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, in Champaign. I want to thank you for joining us, again, on Flashpoints. Francis Boyle: Thank you, Dennis. I’m always happy to be on your show and you...

by Carol Brouillet In 1994 Labeviere's friend, Ali, a Muslim, was assassinated by an Islamist organization. Ali was savagely opposed to the Islamists who are "mutilating their religion and betraying their country,"(1) he would tell anyone who would listen. Labeviere began his investigation to try to understand his friend's death. The path inevitably led to the financial circuits of terrorism- the banks, the businesses, both legitimate and illegitimate, to the official and secret structures of Saudi finance, the Muslim brothers, to the oil monarchies allied with the United States, to the intelligence agencies, the CIA, and its Saudi and Pakistani counterparts. Based on a hundred interviews, numerous journalistic investigations, years of archival research and travels, Labeviere painstakingly deconstructs the notion that the U.S. is a beacon of democracy. America's imperial intention is fed by an alliance with the Islamists, new worldwide circuits of organized crime,...

by Michel Chossudovsky This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research, 2005 "The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings....The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..", (Washington Post, 23 March 2002) "Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the [Islamic] Jihad." (Pervez Hoodbhoy, Peace Research, 1 May 2005) "Bin Laden recruited 4,000 volunteers from his own country and developed cl...

Terrorism after 9/11 had changed the surface of reality. The theory on clash of civilisations had imbedded with the foriegn policy of western powers with intent to carry on the mind game of west against the east. In reality there are no such things. Its all about power and who want to control whom. The west is actually wants to hold the power against east. The emerging of India and China as the superpowers had terroried the western dominance on world issues. So, the west has no choice but to create a proxy war by creating conflicts around the globe to retain the power. If you had noticed after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the involvement of west on conflicts around the world is very clear on creating an enemy to re-establish its dominance on world affairs. Unfortunately Islam and Muslims become the victims on this mind game. The clear indications on this matter are the conflicts involving Muslim countries after the 9/11. From Balkan conflict to current Middle East upris...