Afghanistan

FIU Students Organizing Anti-Drone Protest

When it comes to war-mongering, President Barack Obama has at times put his predecessor, George W. Bush, to shame. Consider the commander-in-chief's cold-hearted use of unmanned drones to fight America's war on terror. He's launched more than five times as many drone strikes than Bush did, according ... More >>

Florida Moves Closer To Banning Surveillance By Police Drones

When the Miami-Dade Police Department acquired two drones in 2010 and then got FAA clearance to fly them, civil rights advocates warned the move was a harbinger of the Blade Runner police state to come when unmanned aircraft would hover outside every window. That privacy nightmare could still come t ... More >>

Hated for Trying's Punk Comp "Cadence to Valor" Honors Local Fallen Soldier

Miami-Dade Police Ask FAA To Renew Drone License For Another Year

Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a flying drone with a camera strapped to it! Odds are you've seen the first two in Miami airspace. But so far, the only people to have spied the third in action are the folks in Miami-Dade Police Department training sessions. A year and a half ago, M ... More >>

Corrosion of Conformity With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater at Grand Central Miami, March 19

Corrosion of Conformity​ With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater Grand Central Monday, March 19, 2012 Louder Than: Volcanoes, stampedes, and a skirmish in the valleys of Afghanistan. Can someone please explain how Corrosion of Conformity ended up playing an only-show-in-Florida date at G ... More >>

David Young, Ex-Green Beret and Politico, Accused Of Bilking $54 Million From Military

​Before he moved to Florida, David Young was an American hero: A Green Beret, a Gulf War vet and a Bronze Star recipient. The vet was once among the nation's youngest state legislators after winning a seat in his native New Hampshire's state House at the age of 21. Two years ago, when he relocated ... More >>

Occupy Miami Brings Out Hundreds of Protesters to Bayfront Park

photo by Tim Elfrink​Echoing the ongoing "Occupy" movements from Wall Street to San Francisco, hundreds of sign-waving, drum-beating, flyer-hawking protesters gathered in Bayfront Park this afternoon, drawing supportive honks from cars pouring down Biscayne Boulevard and bewildered stares from tou ... More >>

Do Implant Bombs Mean Miami Is Now More Dangerous Than Mazar-i-Sharif?

Suspicious.​Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise ... More >>

Editor Chuck Strouse Wins Sigma Delta Chi, Top Columns in Nation

Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse has won the Sigma Delta Chi award for the nation's best columns in a nondaily publication.Strouse, a codger who writes so seldom that many people don't even know he can hold a pen, topped all entries for five of his columns, including three about Louis Maxwell, a ... More >>

Twenty-Two Dead in Afghan Protests Over Florida Koran Burning, But is Terry Jones Directly to Blame?

​Twenty-two people, including several United Nations workers, have been killed in Afghanistan during protests over Florida pastor Terry Jones's burning of a Koran in his tiny Gainesville church. Jones, who had postponed the burning after threatening to hold International Burn a Koran Day on the ni ... More >>

Bombs Bursting in Air

Big Orange is Back

Miami-Dade Cops Close To Adding War in Afghanistan-Style Drone To Arsenal

via HoneywellMiami Dade cops hope to soon start flying this robotic drone called the T-Hawk.​In places such as Kabul, Gaza, and Baghdad, unmanned aerial vehicles hovering over homes, following suspects, and tracking enemies of the state are a daily reality. So where are the high-tech drones buzzin ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Will Burn Korans Now

Back when we first picked up on the story of Dove World Outreach Center's planned "International Burn a Koran Day," back before it had become a media spectacle, we mused, "The Westboro Baptist Church currently holds the title of most insane thing purporting to be a Christian church in America, ... More >>

Remember 9/11 and Say No to the Ground Zero Mosque

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times.This week, Luke says no to the Ground Zero mosque.I don't believe there should be a mosque next to the Ground Zero memorial site in Ne ... More >>

Nino Pernetti's Caffe Abbracci Cookbook

​Nino Pernetti graciously sent me a copy of his then just-published cookbook after I'd done a short interview with him about it for Short Order  in 2008. The subtitle, His Life Story and Travels around the World, pretty much describes the narrative, in which Nino's co-authors Ferdie Pacheco a ... More >>

Gulf Oil Spill Sticking With Us: Top Five Things We Thought Went Away But Really Didn't

Taint gone: the oil spill is with us for years to come, whether we like it or notYesterday scientists at the University of California, San Francisco published a report on the dangers to humans and wildlife still posed by the gigantic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To the cha ... More >>

Hamid Karzai likely had Louis Maxwell killed

Louis Maxwell murdered by Afghan Army, Part 2

Los Afganos asesinan a Louis Maxwell: Segunda Parte

Les Halles & Pacific Time Clock Out, Enrique Fernandez Needs To Tune In

​Read My Lips"Pacific Time will remain open through the summer." -- Jonathan Eismann to Short Order, June 16, 2010 Pacific Time shut its doors two weeks ago.I Hear The War In Afghanistan Is Going Pretty WellLes Halles has also halted service, the ominous Temporarily closed for renovations sign pos ... More >>

Radar vs. Wolf Versus You at Sweat Records Friday

​A long time ago I came to the painful realization that my dreams and aspirations would go unfulfilled. Publishing a collection of original poetry titled "Fetch Me the Pliers" by downtown Kabul's most exclusive post-Soviet literary house didn't bring in the cash. So I did what many failed los ... More >>

Did Efraim Diveroli's Crony Ship Missiles to Hezbollah?

Courtesy of Miami-Dade CorrectionsEfraim DiveroliIn early 2007, after winning a $300 million U.S. Army contract to equip Afghanistan with munitions, Miami Beach arms dealer Efraim Diveroli, age 21, went scavenging in Albania. There he subcontracted Ylli Pinari, head of that Balkan country's state-ru ... More >>

More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others

Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

News Roundup: So Many Thieves; The U Breaks ESPN Ratings Records

Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches an ... More >>

World leaders should see the Frost Art Museum's latest exhibits

Broadway Ocho

The Revolution Will Be Televised

News Roundup

Commissioner Marc Sarnoff thinks Miami 21 might make a repeat appearance this fall. [SFBJ]A Miami man was shopping at his local Publix (5715 NW Seventh St.) when some idiot managers thought he stole some eye drops. So they made him go into the bathroom and take off his clothes. I don't know why ... More >>

Land Mine Legacy in Coral Gables

Photos at the Spanish Cultural Center remind us wars linger.

Memo From Baghdad: Miami Soldier Says Obama's Withdrawal Plans Will Work

Capt. Agustin Dominguez understands the ebb-and-flow of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as only a battle-hardened soldier who's been there truly can.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAn Iraqi soldier on patrolDominguez, a Miami native and '98 grad of Palmetto Senior High, followed a stint in northern ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of March 5, 2009

"Let him foolishly make money off of these animals, and we'll mop up the mess when something tragic finally happens."

Guantanamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Armed Again

Indicted Miami Beach weapons dealer Efraim Diveroli is still making millions of dollars from the U.S. government.

Cheney Still Hearts Gitmo; the Senate Does Not Heart Cheney

You've got to give Tricky Dick some credit. The man sticks to his guns (even when they're clearly shooting someone in the face).Amid the Bushie farewell tour over the past week, Cheney has time and again stuck up for his administration's use of, ahem, "questionable" tactics in treating prisoners at ... More >>

Spy vs. Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.

American Realist

In Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford probes the façade of a nation.

Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

Padilla Trial Gets Under Way With a Focus on History

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Puppet Punch

Osama’s Thug

Jose Padilla is (a) a punk; (b) a terrorist in training; (c) an unwitting pawn for Uncle Sam and al-Qaeda; or (d) all of the above

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Two very different plays about boys with toys

Modern Drunkard

Have a swill time with Dave Attell

Night&Day

What Haiti Teaches

Starving children don't respond to military firepower

World Beats

Progressive acts manufacture new sounds

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Code Orange

It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine

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