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A note that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is said to have left on an interior wall of the boat where police found him after the April 15 attacks claimed responsibility for the bombings and described them as retribution for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying the Boston dead were “collateral damage” in the same way Muslims are in the American-led conflicts.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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The U.S. Army (CC BY 2.0)
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By David Vine, TomDispatch —
After an extensive examination of government spending data and contracts, I estimate that the Pentagon has dispersed around $385 billion to private companies for work done outside the U.S. since late 2001, mainly in the military baseworld.
Posted on May 15, 2013
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U.S. Marine Corps./Gunnery Sgt. Michael Kropiewnicki
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By David Sirota — On June 30, 1973, a 24-year-old plumber’s apprentice became the last American forced into the armed services before the military draft expired.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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U.S. Navy/MC2 Edwin L. Wriston
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By William Pfaff — The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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U.S. Marine Corps./Lance Cpl. Juanenrique Owings
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By Eugene Robinson — For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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White House (Archive)
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By Joe Conason — Not so fast, please: There are a few salient questions that George W. Bush (or at least his library) ought to address before the rehabilitation begins.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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Jeff Vespa/WireImage
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With his new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” Jeremy Scahill brings the last decade of the American government’s clandestine war making into the clearest possible focus.
Posted on Apr 27, 2013
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By David Sirota — You are not allowed to honestly discuss the Central Intelligence Agency’s concept of “blowback” without putting yourself at risk of being deemed a traitor to country.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In retrospect, George W. Bush’s legacy doesn’t look as bad as it did when he left office. It looks worse.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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AP/Karim Kadim
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A British businessman was convicted Tuesday of fraud for selling fake bomb detectors for as much as $40,000. Despite being “completely incapable of detecting explosives,” as police Detective Superintendent Nigel Rock put it, the devices are still in use.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of recession.
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By William Pfaff — The blood runs cold when one fully appreciates how vulnerable official policymakers and the Western policy community are to slogans and to magical thinking.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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In an hourlong special on “Democracy Now!” on Tuesday, author and Nation magazine war correspondent Jeremy Scahill tells the story of the radicalization of Islamic cleric and American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and the U.S. government’s subsequent pursuit and assassination of him and his son.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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Nation Books
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
With “Blowback,” Chalmers Johnson aimed to paint a portrait of how America’s informal empire and its historically unprecedented garrisoning of the world looked to others, and so explain why animosity and blowback were building globally. Now we have a secret history of 21st-century American war in Jeremy Scahill’s latest book, “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.”
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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AP/Brendon Smialowski
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By Robert Scheer — The horror of Boston should be a reminder that the choice of weaponry can be in itself an act of evil.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Dallas Edwards
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By Richard Reeves — More than 8,000 interpreters are employed by the United States military, and many thousands of other Afghans are working for the occupiers.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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AP/Julio Cortez
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“I’m up for us ‘All Being Bostonians Today’. But then can we all be Yemenis tomorrow & Pakistanis the day after?” Greenwald’s Guardian colleague Gary Younge wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Edd Turtle
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By Jeremiah Goulka, TomDispatch —
It didn’t take much. No battles. No dead bodies. I spent just three and a half weeks as a contractor in Iraq, when the war there was at its height, rarely leaving the security of American military bases.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976 that it has dubbed “The Kissinger Cables.”
Posted on Apr 10, 2013
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Shutterstock illustration of a drone.
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By William Pfaff — War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Dilip Hiro, TomDisaptch —
Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. But none of the relevant documents refer to the single most relevant fact: that the fraud and misconduct originates in Washington itself.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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Giacomo Carena (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Consider the plethora of blood-soaked little anniversaries that Americans could observe, if they cared to, from a decade-plus of the former Global War on Terror.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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Almost half of the 2.2 million troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan report problems on returning home, but the attention and care many receive from the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs are not enough, a report published Tuesday finds.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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AP/Emilio Morenatti
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Of the 1.5 million Iraqi refugees who have fled the country, only about 80,000, or 5 percent, have been resettled here in the U.S.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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CMYKane (CC BY 2.0)
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By Ann Jones, TomDispatch —
Picture this. A man bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. The invader isn’t an American soldier leading a night raid on an Afghan village, nor is the enemy an anonymous Afghan householder. This warrior is just a guy in Ohio named Shane, and he’s doing what so many men find exhilarating: disciplining his girlfriend.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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U.S. Army/Spc. Michael J. MacLeod
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By Col. Ann Wright — A decade ago, I resigned my post in opposition to President George W. Bush’s war on Iraq.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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The Department of Veterans Affairs was accused before Congress this week of numerous accounts of negligence, including hiding or obscuring research data involving Gulf War veterans and failing to treat former soldiers outright.
Posted on Mar 16, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady
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By Richard Reeves — If you Google "Afghanistan," you get your choice of occupiers.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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AP/Biswaranjan Rout
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By William Pfaff — A day will undoubtedly come when Osama bin Laden will occupy the same place in 21st century history books as Gavrilo Princip holds in the histories of the 20th century. Both committed acts that provoked great wars, brought down empires and profoundly altered their times.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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YouTube/thealmost
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A short film about the Iraq invasion explores how the horror and threat that were forced upon the American people and the world were generated from within the White House, not by Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Wikimedia Commons / The White House
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By Juan Cole — Once again, the erratic president of Afghanistan had U.S. officials shaking their heads in disbelief after he gave a speech in which he blamed the interactions of the U.S. and the Taliban for his country’s security problems.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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Claudia Cuellar
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By Chris Hedges — After being paralyzed in Iraq, the Army veteran went on to become a leading anti-war activist. Now, under hospice care, he is waiting to die. This is the face of war they do not want you to see.
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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AwayWeGo210 (CC BY 2.0)
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By Victoria Brittain, TomDispatch —
In the last decade, I didn’t travel to distant refugee camps in Pakistan or destroyed villages in Afghanistan to see my government’s war against Islam. I stayed in Great Britain, where by a series of chance events, I found myself inside it, spending time with families transformed into enemies.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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AP/Richard Drew
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By William Pfaff — A Gallup poll issued this month says that 99 percent of the American public now has become convinced that Iran’s civilian nuclear program will threaten “the vital interests of the United States in the next ten years.” Eighty-three percent say this will be “a critical threat.” Why?
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman, TomDispatch —
Since 2003, the Department of Homeland Security has grown into a miniature Pentagon. But unlike the Pentagon, it draws no attention whatsoever—even though this country has spent an amount of money equivalent to more than one and a half New Deals on “homeland security” since 9/11.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Chris Christie being omitted from a major conservative event and Stephen Colbert breaks character to make his first political endorsement.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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By David Sirota — In my years reporting on the intentional narrowing of political vernacular to guarantee specific outcomes, I have encountered no better example of Orwellian newspeak than that which now dominates the conversation about America’s drone war.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Joe Conason — No doubt President Obama was deeply stung over the weekend to hear Dick Cheney criticize his new national security team.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address was so wide ranging and inclusive, it’s almost difficult to recall the most ambitious proposals.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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By William Pfaff — In 2009, the former head of the international law department of Israel’s military establishment, Daniel Reisner, said that “International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it.”
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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By William Pfaff — Military interventions by powerful nations into lesser ones, such as now continues in Mali (and Afghanistan), and is being urged by many into the Syrian civil war, are inherently reckless since even the most powerful states can have the whole project blow up on them.
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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AP/Mohammad Hannon
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As he watches neighboring Syria “implode,” the king of Jordan worries that the country will fracture and become a hotbed of religious extremism.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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