Read more radical stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4872/radical.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:56:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/52729/the-twilight-of-students-radical-reading.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA few decades ago, college kids turned to radicals to satisfy their literary thirst, but on today’s campuses, “you're more likely to hear a werewolf howl than Allen Ginsberg,” writes Ron Charles in the Washington Post . Other than Barack Obama’s tomes, the bestselling books among college students these days are...http://www.newser.com/story/52729/the-twilight-of-students-radical-reading.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Mar 2009 16:03:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52315/french-pols-receive-death-threats-along-with-bullets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSeven French politicians, including President Nicolas Sarkozy, have received death threats accompanied by live ammunition, the Independent reports. The letters, which included 9mm rounds, were signed by an unknown group called Solidarity Earth. Though the name perhaps suggests an environmental group, and anti-terrorism officials are investigating, those in the know...http://www.newser.com/story/52315/french-pols-receive-death-threats-along-with-bullets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Mar 2009 15:35:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42712/unrepentant-ayers-i-was-demonized.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWilliam Ayers broke his silence this morning on Good Morning America , and he was anything but repentant. The former ‘60s radical called the attacks on him “a profoundly dishonest narrative” designed to “demonize” him, ABC reports. But he didn’t apologize for controversial deeds by him or the Weather Underground, including...http://www.newser.com/story/42712/unrepentant-ayers-i-was-demonized.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 14 Nov 2008 8:56:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/40613/is-obama-a-radical-or-reconciler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama may be on the brink of the presidency, but many still wonder whether he’s a closet radical, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post . He carries a liberal Illinois legislature record, associations with Ayers, Alinsky, Wright, and ACORN, and an “elitist disdain for bitter, God-clinging conservatives,” Gerson notes....http://www.newser.com/story/40613/is-obama-a-radical-or-reconciler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Oct 2008 13:11:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40299/mccain-had-a-60s-radical-friend-of-his-own.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn McCain has been busily exploiting and distorting Barack Obama’s passing relationship with '60s radical Bill Ayers, but McCain himself had a much closer relationship with another '60s radical, David Ifshin, writes Joe Klein of Time . Ifshin was an anti-Vietnam radical whom many people accused of treason after he flew...http://www.newser.com/story/40299/mccain-had-a-60s-radical-friend-of-his-own.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Oct 2008 13:48:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/39118/how-obama-crossed-paths-with-a-radical-60s-bomber.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBill Ayers' past as a bomb-planting '60s radical has been largely forgiven in Chicago—even the mayor says, “He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally”—but it keeps popping up to haunt Barack Obama, the New York Times reports. The pair live in the same neighborhood...http://www.newser.com/story/39118/how-obama-crossed-paths-with-a-radical-60s-bomber.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 04 Oct 2008 10:04:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28271/brit-cafe-bomber-preyed-on-by-extremists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish police believe a mentally ill man who tried to blow himself up in a restaurant yesterday was taken advantage of by Islamic extremists, the Guardian reports. The recent convert to Islam walked into a busy restaurant in the West Country city of Exeter and exploded a device. The only...http://www.newser.com/story/28271/brit-cafe-bomber-preyed-on-by-extremists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 May 2008 3:47:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2338/clashes-in-lebanon-kill-39.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA gunbattle between the Lebanese army and al-Qaeda-linked militants in Tripoli today left 22 soldiers and 17 insurgents dead, the AP reports. The fighting—the worst in the city in two decades— began when police raided an apartment occupied by militants. The army later shelled a Palestinian refugee camp which...http://www.newser.com/story/2338/clashes-in-lebanon-kill-39.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 May 2007 14:20:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2015/fort-dix-terror-plot-foiled.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSix alleged terrorists are under arrest after plotting an attack against New Jersey's Fort Dix Army Base. The men, Islamic radicals from Albania and the former Yugoslavia, had hatched a deadly (if decidedly low-tech) plan: storm the base with automatic weapons and execute as many soldiers as possible.http://www.newser.com/story/2015/fort-dix-terror-plot-foiled.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 May 2007 10:37:35 CDT