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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Nearly 12 years after it was first enacted, the Authorization for Use of Military Force remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations, to kill people with drone “signature strikes,” based not on guilt but on a remote analysis of a suspect’s “patterns of life.”
Posted on May 22, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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AP/Ivan Sekretarev
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By Juan Cole — Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has Russia asserted itself so forcefully beyond its borders.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 20, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.
Posted on May 15, 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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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Shutterstock photo of EU roundtable.
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By William Pfaff — It is not simply the euro zone that is threatened by the dramatic economic discrepancies that now exist among its members. Now it is the European Union itself that is in danger.
Posted on May 14, 2013
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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A veteran Air Force drone pilot has opened up about his unsettling experiences killing alleged militants and probable civilians from an air-conditioned trailer in the American West.
Posted on May 11, 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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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on May 9, 2013
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By Robert Reich — After years of repeated reports of sexual assaults—and years of promises to prevent them, and then years of studies and commissions to find the best way of doing so—a Defense Department study released Tuesday estimates that some 26,000 people in the military were sexually assaulted in the last fiscal year, up from about 19,000 the year before.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch —
With a recent semi-victory, whistle-blower Robert MacLean may not only have given himself a shot at getting his old job back, but he may have also created a precedent for future federal whistle-blowers. In the post-9/11 world, people like him show us how deep the Washington rabbit hole really goes.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland.
Posted on May 8, 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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AP/Arlington County Police Department
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Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who heads the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, has been accused of the very thing he’s been tasked with trying to stop.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
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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In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning.
Posted on May 5, 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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AP/Ricardo Mazalan
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The president failed the first time he promised to close America’s island gulag, but heading into the fourth month of a hunger strike by prisoners there, Obama renewed his commitment Tuesday to shuttering the facility.
Posted on Apr 30, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama is right to resist the mounting pressure for military intervention in Syria. Action by U.S. forces may or may not make the situation better—but certainly could make things worse.
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 28, 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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Nation Books
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By Jeremy Scahill — The killing of U.S. born, al-Qaida-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki set a dangerous precedent here in America.
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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By Robert Reich — In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday, Sen. Rand Paul urged him to reconsider immigration legislation because of the bombings in Boston.
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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From ronlim.com
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Now that history has shown us how monumentally terrible the idea of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq turned out to be, the president who lied to get us into the quagmire says he’s “comfortable” with what he did.
Posted on Apr 15, 2013
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Glyn Lowe Photoworks (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch —
If we had a government capable of honoring the collective desire for more jobs, smaller deficits, more education funding, reduced reliance on fossil fuels and Medicare and Social Security benefits preserved, our future could be guaranteed at tax time in no time.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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AP/Bernat Armangue
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By Sandy Tolan — Amira Hass, the groundbreaking reporter who has lived in the Palestinian territories for most of the last two decades, defended the rights of Palestinians to throw stones at occupying Israeli forces.
Posted on Apr 10, 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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AP/Tara Todras-Whitehill
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By Col. Ann Wright — The Turkish NGO that coordinated part of the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla says that families of the nine passengers killed by Israeli commandos have rejected the country’s recent apology.
Posted on Apr 8, 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: How the media cover—and promote—war, Robert Scheer defends the messenger, AP disappears ‘illegal’ immigrants, and America’s office slaves, otherwise known as interns, rise up.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: How the media cover—and promote—war, Robert Scheer defends the messenger, AP disappears “illegal” immigrants, and America’s office slaves, otherwise known as interns, rise up.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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By Dina Temple-Raston —
The details about the courts at Guantanamo Bay have remained sketchy. Until now, as a new book explains how a small group of Bush-era political appointees developed a parallel justice system designed to ensure a specific outcome.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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AP/ISNA, Amin Khosroshahi
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By William Pfaff — The war being promoted in the United States against Iran is (or would be) a war of aggression disguised, by but also to the leaders themselves, as a preventive war necessitated by threat.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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