News Analysis: Same People, Same Threat
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The hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a single, insistent question: Are we safer? Perhaps not.
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"After all, for people here the Internet is almost as vital as running water; it is used routinely to vote, file their taxes, and, with their cellphones, to shop or pay for parking."  A timeline of "Attack on Estonia" is set out in the New York Times story today titled "War Fears Turn Digital After Data Siege in Estonia." For Estonians, the attack has been a fundamental threat, and for the ... via Smart Mobs
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Two plots foiled in a single day suggests that extremist terror networks are growing more active in Europe
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After two wars, thousands of deaths and many billions of dollars, the United States is still vulnerable to terrorists. That painful reality has ignited a political frenzy over who's to blame and who's best qualified to protect Americans.
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It's funny how many times over the past three years that "terrorist" threats have popped up whenever the Bush administration either wants something or is trying to distract people from its problems.
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Last week I came across Godwin's Law. Many of you may already be familiar with it. For those of you who aren't, Godwin's Law, according to wikipedia, states:  As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.  read more
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I've written about weather alarmism and terrorphobia as examples of availability cascades, but there's an important distinction between these cascades. The environmentalists promoting fear of climate change sometimes use dubious tactics in exploiting images like Hurricane Katrina, but they can legitimately point to longer trends showing that the planet has warmed and is projected to [...].
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And recent history repeats itself.
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It's possible to work out effective countermeasures if your enemy sticks with specific tactics. But if your foe is a terrorist with the innate ability to think and adapt, things get a little more tricky.
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Description: Senior news analyst NPR&#39;s Daniel Schorr observes the amount of flak defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld is taking from conservatives.
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History looks primed to repeat itself.
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Top intelligence officials said they remained concerned that terrorists were regrouping to attempt another major attack on America.
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The truth is, Washington&#39;s decisions affect us more than those taken in Canberra. By Jonathan Freedland. There&#39;s a reason every newspaper in the world will have the same story on its front page on November
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Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms - flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks - are terrorists plotting their next move? The government certainly isn't discounting the possibility.
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven sources.
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Numerous law enforcement and counterterrorism officials also warned last week that a heightened threat of terrorist attack will persist through the January inauguration.
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Also: Vigilante hackers target the wrong guy. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.