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By Peter Stothard
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By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
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AP/Karim Kadim
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Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday; kidnappers abducted eight policemen on a highway to Jordan and Syria; and attackers shot dead a Sunni cleric in the country’s Shiite-majority south.
Posted on May 18, 2013
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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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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on May 5, 2013
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Klearchos Kapoutsis (CC BY 2.0)
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After the deadliest month of political fighting in five years, Iraq appears to be sliding rapidly into a new civil war that “will be worse than Syria,” leaders say.
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 4, 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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By Amy Goodman — “Ultimately, the success of the nation depends on the character of its citizens.” So said George W. Bush in his speech at the dedication of his presidential library in Texas last week.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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geyergus (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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“In any normal society,” writes a skeptical Robert Fisk of the media and government blowup over the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, “the red lights would now be flashing.”
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Kim Alaniz (CC BY 2.0)
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By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch —
After Roman legions invaded Egypt, during one of the battles waged by Julius Caesar against the brother of Cleopatra, fire devoured most of the thousands upon thousands of papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria. A pair of millennia later, during George W. Bush’s crusade against an imaginary enemy in Iraq, most of the books in the Library of Baghdad were reduced to ashes.
Posted on May 1, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on May 1, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 1, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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Seeking to clarify his “red line” position on the Syrian government’s possible use of chemical weapons, President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider a “range of options,” but he also urged patience.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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Vladdo, Semana, Colombia, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 29, 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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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
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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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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Shutterstock photo of Boston.
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By David Sirota — After an explosion like those in Boston, it is indeed hard to hear one’s own internal monologue, much less meditate on such horrific events.
Posted on Apr 19, 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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Flickr/Cliff (CC-BY)
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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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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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mrbill78636 (CC BY 2.0)
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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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Exothermic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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By Dahr Jamail, TomDispatch —
According to the Bush administration, the siege of Fallujah was carried out in the name of fighting something called “terrorism.” And yet, from the point of view of the Iraqis I was observing at such close quarters, the terror was strictly American. But governments are rarely referred to in the same terms.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Iraq whistle-blower reminds us that Bush lied. Plus: Obama in the Holy Land, antagonizing fat people and fighting to save a great work of political art.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Iraq whistle-blower reminds us that Bush lied. Plus: Obama in the Holy Land, antagonizing fat people and fighting to save a great work of political art.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss President Obama’s reception in Israel, the possibility of that country attacking Iran if nuclear development continues and the deadly blunder of 10 years of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Plus, a GOP autopsy.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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AP/Aleppo Media Center
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the American war machine might be revving up for another strike, this time in Syria.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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