War and Conflict

5 More Great 9/11 Songs

Rewind: The Top 5 Best & Worst Songs About 9/11 Looking at it now, 11 years to the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the al-Qaeda-led terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, it's still difficult to underestimate how much the world changed that day. The real ... More >>

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Barry Walter Bujol Jr. Gets 20 Years For Trying To Help Al Qaeda

A Hempstead man got 20 years in prison today for trying to smuggle GPS devices and pre-paid phone cards to Al Qaeda. Former Prairie View A&M Barry student Walter Bujol Jr, 30, had been convicted in November after defending himself in the trial, which featured a boatload of incriminating evidence, ... More >>

Kony: Some Thoughts from a Local Expert (and General Crankiness from Us)

If you're a sentient creature, chances are you've seen, or heard tell of, Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign, and chances are you have an opinion about it. There's also a good chance that, regardless of which camp you're in, you're an insufferable, sanctimonious dillweed. (Sorry; we've just had ... More >>

Friday Night: The Civil Wars at The Wortham Center

The Civil Wars Wortham Center January 20, 2012 Check out our slideshow of Civil Wars playing to a packed house. Strolling up Wortham Center's grand staircase in advance of The Civil Wars show on Friday night, several thoughts went tumbling through Aftermath's head. We weren't certain what to expec ... More >>

Stephen Hunter: Soft Target

Barry Walter Bujol Jr.: Hempstead Student Convicted of Helping Al Qaeda

Guilty, judge says​A 30-year-old Prairie View A&M student has been convicted of providing aid to Al Qaeda. Barry Walter Bujol Jr. had a four-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge David Hittner, who ruled this afternoon. Bujol offered no witnesses or defense to charges he had materially a ... More >>

Top 5 Guns N' Roses Riots

More literal than metaphorical.​"The World's Most Dangerous Band." That was the tag applied to Guns N' Roses in their late '80s heyday, and though the smacked-out bad boys of Appetite for Destruction have largely mellowed into comfortable, safe middle age, Axl's crew can still lay a claim as ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: 99 Percent Protesters March to City Hall for Occupy Houston

See lots more pics of the protest in our slideshow. Joining a movement of protests across the country, several hundred Houstonians gathered at Market Square Park this morning to march to Hermann Square in front of City Hall, which they plan to occupy indefinitely in solidarity with the Occupy Wall ... More >>

Video: Jane's Addiction Announces Bin Laden's Death At Buzzfest

Last night during their Buzzfest 26-closing set at at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, classic alt-rockers Jane's Addiction had the distinct honor of announcing to the nearly sold-out crowd at the shed that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by American special forces.

Film Collage

Johan Grimonprez's stunning work screens at the Blaffer Museum.

Enemies of the People

Barry Walter Bujol Jr. of Hempstead: His Al-Qaeda Career Gets Nipped In The Bud

He'd received a book entitled 42 Ways of Supporting Jihad​A Hempstead man who told an undercover FBI officer he wanted "to travel overseas to fight in violent jihad for" Al-Qaeda was indicted today on charges of trying to help a terrorist organization.Barry Walter Bujol, Jr., 29, was arrested as h ... More >>

Texas State Rep Goes All Hollywood With Matt Damon

​We expected nothing more than "Bourne in Iraq" from Green Zone, but we were pleasantly surprised. Although the movie didn't delve too far into the juicy tales of utter administration incompetence that the book did, it still delivered a good bit of entertainment and a fair recapping of the WMD sea ... More >>

Bad Day On The Political Trail: When Glenn Beck Sounds Saner Than You

​(Updated with Perry reaction)How do you know you're having a bad, momentum-killing day on the campaign trail?When you're forced to put out an official statement saying No, I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job.Debra Medina, who had been surging recently in polls of the GOP gubernatorial primary ... More >>

The Sheriff Of Crosby, N.D Protects His Citizens From Terror Better Than Adrian Garcia

​Harris County Republican chair Jared Woodfill is steamed, according to a letter we first found on Isiah Carey's Insite.He is totally pissed and outraged because Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has "opened the doors" of his office to Al-Jazeera. A, umm, media outlet.Maybe not a media outlet wi ... More >>

Ivan's Childhood

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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

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Life in 1860 Houston: the Civil War and Reconstruction

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U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid War

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Guantánamo's Final Days

As America prepares to close the infamous camp, what about those prisoners?

A Houston Connection To That Mumbai Terror Attack

Photo by stutiIt's a bright day of publicity for one Houston firm -- they're getting written up in papers and on websites all over the globe.On the other hand, they're getting written up for a (somewhat tenuous) connection with the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year, so it's not an unvar ... More >>

Good Morning, Houston -- You're A Target

It's near-freezing, there's a huge accident causing traffic nightmares, half the workforce has called in gay  (and half the others are coming in with hugely contagious flu symptoms just to show they're not gay), so who needs bad news?Houston, apparently.A Washington radio station has talked to ... More >>

Houston Gamer Still Causing Worldwide Angst

Homeland Security Won't Let a Former IRA Man Out of Prison

After living in the U.S. for 25 years, Pól Brennan is now stuck on the Texas-Mexico border

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure

Get Out of Jail Free

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1 in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Apolitical Theater in Stop-Loss

Iraq war movie does its best not to mention the war

Multi-Perspective, Mega-Annoying Vantage Point

The Truth Won't Set You Free

9-11/9-11

Animated short revisits impact of tragedies

Guantánamo: Pictures from Home. Questions of Justice

A FotoFest exhibition questions justice

Well, At Least He Did Better Than the Republicans

SANGRIA

HANS' VILLAGE BIER AND VINO HAUS

Any Means Necessary

Beach Patrol

Hands off the Bolivar ferry, Al Qaeda!

War Through Crayons

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should

Last Laugh

Paradise Now finds humor in the mission of suicide bombers

Fever Pitch

Houston has no equal when it comes to hankering for war, a study finds

Uncivil Defense

All Duct Up

From leftist camps and corporate security to semi-panic and port patrols, Houstonians tackle terrorism threats. Sort of.

Saving Beauty

An exhibit at the MFA highlights Afghanistan's cultural riches

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

Hell of a Long Day

24 has been the most talked-about show of the season and for all the wrong reasons

Bush Spiritual Adviser: Blame the Church, Not Bin Laden

Local Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell points fingers at those who didn't pray for bin Laden

Artsy Activist

Slinging a guitar and the New Testament, Bruce Cockburn preaches the gospel of progressive politics

Mothers Against Deliberate Dying

Some Mother's Son shows an uprising's confusion

Walking Dead Arrives D.O.A.