26 November 2010
Afghanistan is about perpetual war
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Harvey Wasserman
The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan.

It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest Asia.

And it is the tombstone of the Obama Presidency.
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24 November 2010
Iran-Nuke NIE Stopped Bush on War
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Ray McGovern
Why should George W. Bush have been “angry” to learn in late 2007 of the unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier? Seems to me he might have said “Hot Dog...
22 November 2010
American predicts Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi will be assassinated
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The American who swam across a lake in 2009 and illegally spent two nights with Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, resulting in an extension of her house arrest, said now that she is free, she...
21 November 2010
A follow up on my fifth grade essay: education at gunpoint
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Ramzy Baroud
I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on "Education and Youth". Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, it might have read something like this:

"Youth is the backbone of any nation...
20 November 2010
U.S. wars are bankrupting the world
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David Swanson
The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "...
14 November 2010
Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi gains freedom & challenges regime
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Freed after seven years under house arrest, Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Sunday (November 14) she will investigate "many allegations of vote-rigging" in last week's election, but offered to talk...

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