Censored 2012 by Mickey Huff Page B

Obama administration would want to spend billions on financing a war in Afghanistan that could create not only potential casualties, but lead to continued economic fiascos, including funding the Taliban while fighting them at the same time.
    This story was reported in alternative media like
The Nation
, but was also picked up, at least marginally, by the corporate media, specifically ABC News and CNN. That said, the story has not been followed up upon, nor has there been any real effort in corporate media to make this a wider issue in the public, especially in matters surrounding the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
    Sources: Nick Schifrin, “Report: U.S. Bribes to Protect Convoys Are Funding Taliban Insurgents,”
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer
, June 22, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/united-states-military-funding-taliban-afghanistan/story?id=10980527 ; Ed Hornick, “U.S. set to pay Taliban members to switch sides,” CNN, October 28, 2009, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-1028/politics/afghanistan.taliban.pay_1_taliban-fighters-taliban-members-afghanistan?_s=PM:POLITICS ; James P. Pfiffner, “Decision Making in the Obama White House,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly
41, no. 2 (2011): 244–62; Gary C. Jacobson, “Legislative Success and Political Failure: The Public’s Reaction to Barack Obama’s Early Presidency,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly
41, no. 2 (2011): 220–43; Richard M. Pious, “Prerogative Power in the Obama Administration: Continuity and Change in the War on Terrorism,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly
41, no. 2 (2011): 263–90; Stephen J. Wayne, “Presidential Character and Judgment: Obama’s Afghanistan and Health Care Decisions,”
Presidential Studies Quarterly
41, no. 2 (2011): 291–306.
Censored 2011 #14

Increased Tensions with Unsolved 9/11 Issues
    Update by Alexandre Silva
    Several contentious issues still plague the US government and their version of the events of September 11, 2001. Those in political power along with corporate media elites would like to see the ongoing grassroots debates surrounding unanswered 9/11 questions and discrepancies disappear, despite the mountains of evidence that suggest that American citizens were told little about the truth of the biggest single-day attack on their homeland in history. Nearly ten years after the events, many unanswered questions still exist: How didBuilding 7 fall? What caused the destruction of the twin towers? Who, exactly, was responsible for the attacks and security failures of that day? Where was Osama bin Laden for so long and why are there numerous reports of his death prior to the US declaration of such on May 2, 2011? Are people that question the official story of 9/11 dangerous conspiracy theorists?
    Original Sources: PR News Wire, “1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation: Cite Evidence of Explosive Demolition at Three World Trade Center Towers,” February 19, 2009, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/1000-architects—engineers-call-for-new-911-investigation-84768402.html ; Shawn Hamilton, “Over 1,000 Architects and Engineers Have Signed Petition to Reinvestigate 9-11 Destruction,”
Examiner
, February 23, 2010, http://www.examiner.com/x-36199-Conspiracy-Examiner ; Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth, “1,000+ Architects & Engineers Officially Demand New 9/11 Investigation,”
Infowars.com
, January 18, 2010, http://www.infowars.com/1000-architects-engineers-officially-demand-new-911-investigation ; “1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for a Real 9/11 Investigation,” Global Research, January 25, 2010, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17507 ; Sue Reid, “Has Osama bin Laden Been Dead for Seven Years—And Are the US and Britain Covering It Up to Continue War on Terror?”
Daily Mail
, September 1, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years—U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html ; Daniel Tencer, “Obama