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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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Copyright Eugene Richards, from War Is Personal
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — When he dies this spring, Iraq War veteran Tomas Young will have spent his final years struggling to expose the guilt of those who make a holiday of the deaths and suffering of the powerless.
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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By Ann Jones, TomDispatch —
Picture this. A man bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. The invader isn’t an American soldier leading a night raid on an Afghan village, nor is the enemy an anonymous Afghan householder. This warrior is just a guy in Ohio named Shane, and he’s doing what so many men find exhilarating: disciplining his girlfriend.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Last month, University of Chicago anthropologist Marshall Sahlins resigned from the National Academy of Sciences to protest the election to the group of Napoleon Chagnon, a peer whose specious arguments in favor of a natural human tendency toward violence have helped militarize the discipline and legitimize wars of aggression.
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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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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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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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
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 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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U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Lovelady
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By Richard Reeves — If you Google "Afghanistan," you get your choice of occupiers.
Posted on Mar 13, 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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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 11, 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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“Some people do need killing,” the “Real Time” host said on his HBO program Friday. “It’s like what I say about the death penalty: Let’s just kill the right people.”
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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What is the gravest long-term security threat to the part of the world that includes China, North Korea and Japan, according to America’s top military officer there?
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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AP/Andoni Lubaki
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
The civil war in Syria is not a romantic democratic uprising, although one could get that impression from accounts in mainstream media outlets.
Posted on Mar 8, 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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AP/Patrick Semansky, File
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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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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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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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Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP
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By Robert Scheer — What was Michelle Obama thinking? What if the card for “Zero Dark Thirty” had been lurking in that best picture envelope Sunday?
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 21, 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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