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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Nation writer Jeremy Scahill ripped into Republicans and Democrats on the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, claiming that both parties are to blame for the war during a recent appearance on MSNBC.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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AP/Hadi Mizban
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Nearly 10 years to the day after the start of the Iraq War, some 19 car bombs and a shooting in the country’s capital left 57 people dead, almost 200 wounded and many more wondering whether they’ll ever feel safe again.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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The Iraq War has killed at least 189,000 people to date, including a minimum of 123,000 civilians, and could cost taxpayers a total of $4 trillion as interest accrues on money borrowed to fund the invasion and subsequent occupation.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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AP/Ric Francis
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By Robert Scheer — A majority of Americans now believe the Iraq War was a mistake, but memories fade. Most 18-29-year-olds say sending U.S. troops to Vietnam was not a mistake.
Posted on Mar 19, 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 Guardian has released a full-length documentary on the ties between “dirty wars” veteran and retired Col. James Steele, who played a crucial role in setting up and overseeing a network of detention and torture centers in Iraq that committed some of the worst acts of torture, and the top brass at the Pentagon.
Posted on Mar 17, 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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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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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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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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By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —
By invading Iraq, the U.S. did more to destabilize the Middle East than we could possibly have imagined at the time. On the 10th anniversary of the war, we recognize that we—and so many others—will pay the price for it for a long, long time.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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ABr / José Cruz via WikiMedia Commons (rights reserved)
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By Juan Cole — The foreign policy of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez imagined that socialism and anti-imperialism are the same thing, and that he could lead a new sort of socialist international. These considerations shaped his Middle East policy in ways that were contradictory and hypocritical.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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Elvert Barnes (CC-BY)
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The Guardian and BBC Arabic are reporting that the U.S. helped fund and organize a network of torture centers that fueled Iraq’s sectarian violence.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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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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AP/File
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Newly released documents show that the U.S. endorsed a third-party deal to send weapons to Iran just six months after the hostage crisis ended there, a move that helped plant the seeds for the later Iran-Contra scandal.
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Feb 19, 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/J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — It is bizarre that Chuck Hagel, a war hero with a long record of sensible views on the deployment of military power, gets blocked as the president’s nominee to run the Pentagon, while Jack Lew, steeped in Wall Street greed, sails through as Treasury secretary.
Posted on Feb 14, 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 Ralph Nader —
Behind the public relations sheen, the photo opportunities with groups of poor people in the developing world, an increasingly militarized State Department operated under Hillary Clinton’s leadership.
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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AP/Emad Matti
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On Sunday morning, a suicide car bomber disguised as a policeman attacked the police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing 36 people and wounding 105 in the blast, according to The New York Times.
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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You know you’re on shaky ground when you quote a source like the defense secretary with the words, “He basically said. ...” FAIR’s Peter Hart compares ABC’s lazy quoting on Syrian chemical weapons to the kind of WMD fear mongering that led the U.S. to war with Iraq.
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Kelly Branan
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More than 40 years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr., one of the great prophets of American democracy, has been reduced to little more than a lifeless statue. Yet his courageous call for peace and criticism of his government at a time of war must not be lost to history.
Posted on Jan 20, 2013
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Still from "Zero Dark Thirty," released by Columbia Pictures.
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By Robert Scheer — Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Pfc. Bradley Manning?
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record high last year as 349 soldiers—far more than were killed in active combat—took their own lives.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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U.S. Navy/MC1 Eileen Kelly Fors
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By William Pfaff — The utopian and missionary qualities of American political belief began in the Puritans’ Calvinist theology of “the Elect,” the chosen people.
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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