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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 —
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
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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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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a war criminal, the liberal filmmaker and activist contends.
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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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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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a rare one involving American GIs that actually made its way into the military justice system.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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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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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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By Juan Cole — Paul’s strand of libertarianism, insofar as it deeply distrusts big government, typically opposes policies that increase the size and power of government, chief among them ones pertaining to war.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Do conservatives still believe in American greatness? The question is not intended to discourage the healthy debate being pushed by Rand Paul and his allies over whether Republicans in the George W. Bush years were too eager to deploy our country’s armed forces overseas. After the steep costs of the Iraq War, it is a very necessary discussion.
Posted on Mar 17, 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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On Wednesday, a Senate Armed Services subcommittee held a hearing to discuss rape and sexual assault in the military, the first one in nearly a decade. During the hearing, military lawyers answered questions about how the armed services handle such cases. But their answers left Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand “extremely disturbed.”
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Authorities in Florida and five other states carried out a massive raid on a politically well-connected charity that has been called a fraud by the Internal Revenue Service.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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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 look at the day’s political happenings, including Sarah Palin announces her next book project and Iran mulls a lawsuit against Hollywood.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation violated court rules when late Monday it released the full audio of Manning’s statement before a military court in Fort Meade, Md., marking the first time since his May 2010 arrest that the American public has heard the Army private speak.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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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 E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There are, believe it or not, grounds for hoping that the sequester, stupid as it is, might open the way to ending our nation’s budget stalemate.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — You could say that a filibuster occurs when a senator drones on and on. The problem with the U.S. Senate was that there were too few senators speaking about drones this week.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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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 Ivo Mijnssen — Russia’s weapons merchants are back in the international limelight and the industry is booming.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. “Sequester” is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive, but ungrammatical as well.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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By Chris Hedges — His trial is not simply the persecution of a courageous whistle-blower, but a state mechanism to destroy the independence of the press and its ability to expose the power elite’s criminal activity.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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One good thing might come out of the sequester, according to comedian Andy Borowitz. In a satirical report for The New Yorker, he writes that the budget cuts may prevent American forces from fighting “totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts.”
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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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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