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By Allen Barra
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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 Cora Currier and Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
The nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director has prompted intense debate on Capitol Hill and in the media about U.S. drone killings abroad. But the focus has been on the targeting of American citizens – a narrow issue that accounts for a miniscule proportion of the hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen in recent years.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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AP/Bernat Armangue
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Two teenagers were hospitalized Monday after Israeli soldiers tried to end a Palestinian demonstration near Bethlehem by firing on the crowd, The New York Times reports.
Posted on Feb 25, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The deficit that should concern us most right now has to do with time, not money. Money can be recouped. Time just disappears.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — The Academy Awards ceremony will make history this year with the first-ever nomination of a feature documentary made by a Palestinian.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 18, 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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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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AP/U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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By Bill Blum — Assassinations have long been regarded as a basic element of foreign relations that largely remained in the dark, unspoken of but widely practiced in response to perceived threats to national security.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
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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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The courts will now decide if we will fatally damage our democracy and become a military state or protect what is left of our rights as citizens.
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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Mark Rain (CC-BY)
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The Iranian president has offered to negotiate personally with the United States over his country’s nuclear program—with one proviso.
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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Nick Anderson —
Posted on Feb 9, 2013
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Signe Wilkinson —
Posted on Feb 9, 2013
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Flickr/CSIS: Center for Strategic & International Studies
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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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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
Hundreds of drone strikes have occurred under the authority of a concise law passed one week after 9/11. The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is now more than 11 years old. Will it cover this “new phase” of war?
Posted on Feb 6, 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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It’s unclear which benefits the spouses of gay and lesbian armed services members will receive, but legal experts say there are at least 100 that the Pentagon cannot extend while the Defense of Marriage Act is still being enforced.
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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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 27, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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U.S. Navy/MC1 Kenneth G. Takada
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By David Sirota — Four years into his presidency, Barack Obama’s political formula should be obvious.
Posted on Jan 25, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — As President Barack Obama prepared to be sworn in for his second term as the 44th president of the United States, two courageous journalists premiered a documentary at the annual Sundance Film Festival.
Posted on Jan 23, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — The overall failure of American foreign policy during the first Obama presidency was foreseeable.
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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By David Sirota — After more than a week of residual buzz from radio host Alex Jones’ now-famous meltdown during a CNN discussion of gun control, it is worth taking a deep breath and considering the spectacle’s two big lessons, especially now that the White House is pushing Congress to debate firearm legislation.
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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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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The U.S. Army presence is rapidly increasing in Africa, especially in countries with alleged ties to al-Qaida; according to Fox News, teaching children algebra is just another liberal ploy; meanwhile, some researchers have started studying the effects of the “natural experiment” resulting from China’s one-child policy. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
You might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia—a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s national security approach—remain shrouded in secrecy. Here’s a guide to what we know—and what we don’t know.
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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