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SPECIAL FEATURE: CRIPPLED EPISTEMOLOGY

Written by JONATHAN RILEY Posted August 9, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Boston researchers have spent years helping government agencies plan and simulate operations to troll potential terrorists. Despite controversial practices and lackluster results, the covert operations continue.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, BRIC, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, DARPA, DHS, Donald Trump, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, ISIS, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Lone Wolf, MKULTRA, NSA, Persona, Pokemon, Robert Popp, Russian trolls, Sunstein, terrorism, US Army Special Operations Command, Usaamah Rahim, World War II

SPECIAL FEATURE: BOSTON’S MARATHON APOCALYPSE

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted April 15, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

​In ​hashing out what happened​ on that dark day three years ago​, it’s important to consider the Bay State’s history as an apocalyptic ground zero

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: 9/11, Anti-Shariah Task Force, April 15, Black Flags of Khorasan, Boston, British, Chip Berlet, Concord, Defending Dissent Foundation, ISIS, Islam, lexington, Marathon, marathon bombing, Massachusetts, terrorism

MANCHESTER DIVIDED: WHAT HAPPENED TO HILLARY?

Written by BASIM USMANI Posted February 10, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Watching Clinton answer questions about Black Lives Matter and Muslim Americans

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Christie, Christians, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Fiorina, FITN, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, ISIS, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Manchester, Manchester Divided, Marco Rubio, Muslim Americans, New Hampshire, Newbury, polls, primaries, Primary, Radisson, Ted Cruz

QURAN DMC: BLAK MADEEN ON MUSLIMS, FIVE-PERCENTERS, HIP-HOP, AND MARCO RUBIO

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 12, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

While most facets of American society revolve around Christianity, as Yusuf and AL-J are quick to note, hip-hop circles around a different set of principles.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: AL-J, Blak Madeen, Boston Hip Hop, Donald Trump, GOP, ISIS, Leedz Edutainment, Marco Rubio, Methuen, Mohammad, mosque, Muslim hip-hop, Republican debates, The Middle East, Yusuf

AU CONTRAIRE GRANDE FRERE: MASS OFFICIALS SAY THERE’S NO THREAT AT HOME FOLLOWING PARIS ATTACKS, YET PUT FORCES ON INCREASED ALERT ANYWAY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 16, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It’s never easy criticizing vigilant Big Brother while the crime scene is still bloody.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Beacon Hill, biometrics, Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston Trolling, BPD, Charlie Baker, civil liberties, Deval Patrick, facial recognition, FBI, france, fusion centers, IBM, ISIS, legislature, Massachusetts, Paris, Paris attacks, security, surveillance, terrorism, war profiteering, William Evans

THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING, ISIS, AND THE BLACK FLAGS OF KHORASAN

Written by CHIP BERLET Posted October 16, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Generally speaking, the Tsarnaevs apparently fashioned themselves heroes taking part in an apocalyptic mission to strike at the idea, blasphemous to them, that Boston is a beacon ofliberty in a land blessed by God.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Al Qaeda, apocalypse, Black Flags, Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston’s Marathon Apocalypse, Chip Berlet, End Times, ISIS, Khorasan, Sheikh Salman Al-Oadah, trial, Tsarnaev

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