Hey Everyone, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas (or a Merry Everything) and hope you are all well today. Here's a good thought from the writer William Rivers Pitt: "Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined ...
CIA sees increased threat from al-Qaeda in Yemen
For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots - rather than the core group now based in Pakistan - as the most urgent threat to U.S. security, officials said. The sober new assessment of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has helped prompt ...
BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well
NEW ORLEANS – A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory — long awaited by weary residents along the coast — is the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to ...
VIDEO: Bergdahl family remains hopeful
The family of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the only U.S. soldier known to be held captive in Afghanistan, remains hopeful about his release a year after his disappearance.The family, who now lives in Hailey, Idaho, but has roots in the Santa Ynez Valley, issued a statement on the one-year anniversary of ...
Al Qaeda's First English Language Magazine Is Here
As the U.S. struggles to manage its efforts to influence opinion about Al Qaeda abroad, Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula has produced its first English-language propaganda magazine.It's called "Inspire," and you can read parts of it below. A U.S. official said early this morning that the magazine appears to ...
US to launch covert strikes on terror targets
The US has authorised a sweeping expansion of covert military operations in the Middle East and Africa, aimed at destroying terrorist networks in the region, and preparing the ground ahead of any presidential decision to attack Iran.According yesterday's The New York Times, a directive, called the Joint Unconventional Warfare Task ...
Afghan Taliban issue video of US soldier Bergdahl
The Afghan Taliban issued a video of an American soldier captured last summer that showed him saying "please bring me home."The video of Idaho National Guard Private Bowe Bergdahl was posted and described by SITE Intelligence Group which monitors web sites used by extremist groups.The Afghan Taliban had previously issued ...
Taliban release video of captured US soldier
WASHINGTON – The Taliban released a video Wednesday of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him pleading for his freedom and to be returned home.In the video, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl says he wants to return to his family in Idaho and that the ...
U.S. targets American-born cleric in Yemen: officials
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has authorized operations to capture or kill a U.S.-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen, who is described by a key lawmaker as Americas's top terrorist threat, officials said on Tuesday. The decision to add Anwar al-Awlaki, of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to the ...
Otter: Pray for Idaho soldier's safe return
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter reminded Idaho in his State of the State speech that one resident is far from home, in enemy hands.Bowe Bergdahl, a 23-year-old U.S. Army private from Hailey, Idaho, was captured in June in Afghanistan and is being held by the Taliban.Otter told ...
Family still hopeful for soldier’s release
The family of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the only U.S. soldier known to be held captive in Afghanistan, remains hopeful about his release despite a lengthy propaganda video released Christmas day that showed footage of him denouncing the U.S. military.The family now lives in Hailey, Idaho, but has roots in the ...
Captured U.S. soldier shown on Taliban video
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - The Taliban today released a video in which Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier captured by insurgents nearly six months ago, denounces the American military effort in Afghanistan as foolhardy and doomed to failure. Military officials acknowledged that the man shown in the video was ...
Soldier's body leaves Afghanistan for Christmas Eve flight back to Canada
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The body of a 30-year-old Canadian lieutenant is on a Christmas Eve flight back to Canada from Afghanistan.Andrew Nuttall was given a ceremonial send-off as thousands packed the Kandahar Airfield to bid him farewell.The departure came just hours after the military announced his death due to an ...
No Time for Christmas for US Troops in Afghan East
PECH RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) -- For Staff Sgt. Byron Krepcho, it doesn't feel like Christmas.Instead of celebrating Christmas Eve with his family back in Dallas, Texas, Krepcho's unit on Thursday fired mortars at enemy positions from Command Post Michigan in the Pech River Valley in the tense Kunar province ...
British music fans celebrate an ‘anarchy Christmas miracle’
LONDON – For decades, speculating on who will top the music charts on Christmas Day has been as much a part of the holiday build-up for many Brits as decorating the tree or wondering if there will be a white Christmas.There’s endless discussion in the media, bookmakers offer bets on ...
NW soldiers' holiday trip home comes to a halt
Two hundred Northwest soldiers are stuck in Wisconsin for the holidays - even though the National Guard hoped to fly them home before they head off for war.Military regulations got in the way - so now their families are digging deep to spend Christmas together.It's the last chance for these ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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