Guardian | SAS were capturing hundreds of people who were rendered to prisons where they were tortured by US

Ethan Huff | “Communities Against Terrorism” (CAT) program is more out of touch with reality than its forerunners

Greg Miller | Obama administration to rely on combo of spies and Special Operations forces to ‘protect U.S. interests’

MOXNews | More and more ridiculous as the days go by… as if the world is turned on its head.

BIJ | Although drone attacks were started under Bush, they have been stepped up enormously under Obama

BBC | Royal United Services Institute estimates about 50 Britons are fighting with Somali extremists Al Shabaab.

Agence France-Presse | Army officer has accused the American military of painting a misleading picture of progress in the war in Afghanistan.

BBC | German nationals jailed by a judge at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to possessing documents useful to terrorism.

Zero Hedge | “The Navy says the training isn’t specifically tailored to a possible U.S.-Iran scenario.”

Mail Online | Moroccan-born Canadian businessman says he became a terror suspect because of a text message.

AP | Two women and guide abducted by group of Bedouins released hours after negotiations with tribal leaders in Sinai peninsula.

Christopher Brauchli | Permitting the United States to fly drones wherever it wants is the price a country may have to pay for friendship with the United States.

Michael S. Rozeff | “We’re not bombing you today but unless you do what we say, we’ll bomb you tomorrow.”

USA Today | Developers of the pilot program said there is an “urgent need” to de-escalate crises with mentally ill military-trained suspects.

Mother Jones | Obama dishing out the executive 007 – his presidential license to kill

The Independent | Four radicals “admitted to al-Qaida-inspired” plot to bomb the Stock Exchange, Boris Johnson’s home

NY Times | State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the U.S. Embassy and consulates.

Independent | Pakistani doctor suspected of collecting vital evidence before assassination of Osama bin Laden worked for CIA.

Washington Post | An inside glimpse into the twisted world of the CIA family

Yorkshire Post | UK’s latest alleged hoaxer said to be suffering from ‘mental health issues’

Dept. of Homeland Security | Homeland Security is committed to facilitating legitimate trade and travel, while preventing terrorists from exploiting supply chains.

KFI News | LAPD will be providing support for the exercises.

AP/Guardian | Don’t be a hero and leak anything, because the US government still defends its right to torture

McClatchy Newspapers | State has legal means to prosecute any crimes involved, such as kidnapping

Euronews | Scale of the carnage makes this by far the deadliest strike claimed by Boko Haram

Stephen Lendman | Cui bono? Not Syria embroiled for months battling an externally generated insurgency

Press TV | Vice President Hashemi, who is charged with running death squads, has been holed up the Kurdistan region.

Infowars.com | Tells C-Span caller he’d defend the neocon line.

AP/Mail Online | Man on trial for USS Cole bombing managed to get a copy of popular al-Qaeda rag into Gitmo

Daily Star | Religious leader calls for peace and unmasks intelligence agencys’ role in state-sponsored terror

The Daily Sheeple | Not only does she appear largely uninformed, she looks like she doesn’t really care.

S. M. Hali | A look into the recruiting ideology employed when refilling the lower ranks of terrorists

Mac Slavo | A semantic change for words like terrorism, terrorist, hostilities, and domestic extremist is taking place in the social and political spheres.

LaRouchePAC | Clinton Bastin sent an open letter to President Obama the morning of January 13.

Nick Turse | A number of aerial disasters are drawing attention to the many technical limitations of drone warfare

Reuters | Pro-Palestinian hackers had threatened on Sunday to bring down the websites of the Tel Aviv bourse and El Al.

GRTV | With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act into law, more Americans than ever before are wondering how the country could have descended so quickly into a police state.

Reuters | The government will decide in about two months whether to expand a Pentagon pilot program.

Associated Press | FBI agent was a member of a so-called “dirty” team that did an initial intelligence-gathering interview.

The Independent | Globalists begin to stir the terror soup again, gradually putting Lebanon in their frame

Washington Post | Top U.S. officials try to prevent diplomatic damage and contain public disgust following release of video showing Marines desecrating three Afghan corpses.

Chris Martenson | In each of the years 2008, 2009, and 2010, significant worries emerged that Western nations might attack Iran.

Stephen Lendman | Free or imprisoned, Barghouti symbolizes hope – hope one day he’ll be free to lead again

NY Times | Lawyers for a Manhattan man charged with plotting terrorist bombings are negotiating a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Activist Post | It is an unfortunate reality that those who pass for being informed in this country are often much less informed than those who simply no longer care.

Press TV | Said he would redeploy US troops back to Iraq to protect against what he called Iran’s influence.

Daily Commercial | All-guns blazing, militarized DHS ‘random training exercise’ frightens Florida residents

BBC | A hacker named OxOmar claiming to be Saudi said on Thursday he had leaked the private information.

You Tube | “Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country…”

CNBC | Ron Paul appeared on CNBC last night to discuss his ongoing campaign for president.