I think the language of the bill is very disturbing. "Violent radicalization" as defined in the bill has nothing to do with violence. It's just the process of being persuaded that violence is acceptable to achieve some political, social or religious ends. Which means that FOX News and PNAC are among the leading agents of "violent radicalization" in the world today. In practice, I agree that the threat of terrorism by self-professed followers of Islam is top-of-mind in Congress, the intelligence community, and at the DHS. Clinic bombers, anthrax mailers, and their ilk are not a top priority in the corridors …
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Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein, a former InTheseTimes.com political reporter, is a freelance investigative journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Salon, Slate, The New York Press, The Washington Independent, AlterNet, RH Reality Check, and other outlets.
Beyerstein writes a daily foreign affairs bulletin for the UN Foundation’s UN Dispatch website and covers healthcare for the Media Consortium. She is the winner of a 2009 Project Censored Award. She blogs at Majikthise.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay traveled to Boston to earn a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Tufts University. After graduating from Tufts, Lindsay moved to New York City where she briefly worked in pharmaceutical advertising and started her blog Majikthise.
Majikthise was initially conceived as an amalgam of analytic philosophy and liberal politics. However, the politics gradually eclipsed the philosophy as Lindsay spent more and more of her time chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration. Eventually, Majikthise began supplementing her opinion writing with original reporting.
In 2005, Lindsay traveled to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Later that year, her blog readers funded her live coverage of Tom DeLay’s first court appearance in Austin, Texas on money laundering charges. Other major stories she has covered include the New York Transit Strike and the closing days of the Allen/Webb senate race in Virginia in the 2006 midterm elections.
In 2006 Lindsay quit her day job in advertising to pursue journalism full-time. She joined the investigative team at Raw Story as a national correspondent specializing in labor, immigration, and crime issues, and worked as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now.
Lindsay lectures regularly on blogging and journalism. In April 2007, she delivered the Richardson Memorial Lecture at the University of Gettysburg on the relationship between objectivity and journalism. She has also spoken to the National Organization for Women, the Center for American Progress, and other groups.
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Kiriakou and the Kite Runner
The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.
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Anthropologists on the Front Lines
The Pentagon's new program to embed anthropologists with combat brigades raises many concerns
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Rudy Guiliani: Criminal or Liar?
An investigation into Guiliani's claims of familiarity with "intensive questioning" techniques
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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
Harman doesn't believe homegrown terrorism is a major threat to U.S. security today, but that it is important to learn from experiences in other countries like Britain and Canada, where citizens have been inspired to commit terrorism at home by Islamic propagandists reaching out over the Internet
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A Resolution Too Far?
U.S.-Turkish relations, already strained by the war in Iraq, are being tested further by the controversial congressional resolution recognizing the 1915 genocide of Armenians.
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Merc is the New Crack
America's deadly dependence on private security contractors in Iraq
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