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Why We've Lost the War on Terror

Jess Coleman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: September 11, Nypd-Investigation, Bush War on Terror, Terrorism, War on Terror, Al Quaeda, Teen News
Jess Coleman

What Americans and world citizens have gone through in the past decade has been excruciating. But when did it become acceptable or rational for government to use grief as an excuse to trample on our rights?

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Anwar al-Awlaki: Eye For An Eye Or A Third Way?

Christian Piatt | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Anwar Al Awlaki, Nonviolence, Al Qaida, Walter Wink, Jesus, Christianity, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Adolf Hitler, Christian, Pacifism, Al Quaeda, Al Qaeda, Religion News
Christian Piatt

If we believe that one life - perhaps even our own - is worth giving up for a change that brings hope to thousands or millions of others, then this third way begins to look like a path worth exploring.

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Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Musery

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Warlords, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbecks, Tajiks, Afghan Communist Party, Afghan Air Bases, Taliban, Heroin, Cia-Leon-Panetta, Al Quaeda, World News
Eric Margolis

Operation Enduring Freedom -- the dreadfully misnamed ten-year US occupation of Afghanistan -- has turned into Operation Enduring Misery.

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David Lohr

WATCH: American-Born Al Qaeda Member Urges U.S. Muslims To Start Killing Americans

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.03.2011

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Adam Gadahn, a highly influential al Qaeda figure born in America, has issued a call to arms for U.S. Muslims. In a newly released video (scroll d...

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Al Qaeda Leaders' Whereabouts On 9/11 Revealed In Leaked Files

The Washington Post | Posted 06.24.2011

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On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan. At a hospital, the accused mastermind of the bombing ...

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John Kerry's Afghan Dereliction of Duty

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Islam, Theodore Roosevelt, New America Foundation, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, U.S. Constitution, Domino Theory, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Quaeda, Afghanistan War, Terror Free Tomorroe, Dante, John Kerry, Vietnam War, William Butler Yeats, Fulbright Hearings, Vietnam, Michael Leiter, Predator Drones, Leon Panetta, Politics News
Bruce Fein

John Kerry should re-read his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971, eloquently urging a withdrawal of United States forces from Vietnam, as he contemplates his duty towards Afghanistan.

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Fleeing to Djibouti: The Life of Somali Refugees

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Uganda, Mogadishu, Unicef, Al Shahab, Somalia, Resettlement, Integration, Sudan, Djibouti, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Kenya, Refugees, Eritrea, Al Quaeda, Ethiopia, Healthy Living News
Jim Selman

According to Ann Encontre, UNHCR representative in Djibouti, southern Somalia and Mogadishu have been relying on local food supplies since WFP withdrew its food aid program in January this year.

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Mohammed Zazi Charged With Attempting To Obstruct A Criminal Investigation

AP | TOM HAYS and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denver Terror Plot, Mohammed Zazi, Denver Terror Cell, Al-Qaeda, Najibullah Zazi, NY Terror Plot, Al Quaeda, Denver News

NEW YORK — The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up bombs made from beauty supplies in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New...

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Why China is Scarier Than Al Queda

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Persian Gulf, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Israel, Tibet, China, Kim Jong Il, Al Queda, Al Quaeda, Biological Weapons, North Korea, Uigher, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

Many people's nightmares are taken up entirely with dark, terrorist fantasies. As understandable as this may be, it's also irrational. Terrorism will ...

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In Iran, Dissent Becomes Resistance and Insurrection May Follow

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Iran, Underwear Bomber, Iran Protests, Geroge Bush, Barack Obama, Al Quaeda, Dick Cheney, World News
Giles Slade

It would be condescending to say that say democracy is coming to Iran as painfully as a toddler cuts his first teeth. This toddler happens to be 5,000 years old.

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Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leon T. Hadar

The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan: A True Alternative

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Brenner

The US must abandon the illusions that American well-being depends on shaping the affairs of other places wherever something happens that discomforts us; and that people in those places want us to take custody of their well-being.

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A New Year: Where We've Been And Where We're Going

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Google, George Bush, Y2k, Ipod, America, 21st Century Breakdown, President Obama, 9/11, Bernie Madoff, Al Quaeda, New Year's Resolutions, Itunes, 2008 New Year, New Year's Resolution, Decade, Youtube, Intractable Problem, The Inner Life, The Future, Healthy Living News
Jim Selman

We've lost a lot of our our innocence in only 10 years. From Al Quaeda to Bernie Madoff, we're waking up to the realization that the American Dream is just a dream if we aren't responsible for it.

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Obama Afghanistan Decision: Not A Question Of Whether To Send More Troops, But How Many

New York Times | Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's advisers are focusing on a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials sa...

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Obama vs Cheney: Future vs Past

Darin Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Darin Murphy

Cheney filled his time speaking with fear-induced anger, inaccurate claims, righteous indignation and cheap shots at Europe.

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Planes, Presidents, and the Big Apple

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Giles Slade

Politicians are mainly now-guys, welded to the present, forced to react to the remorseless wheel of change with little time to see bigger pictures.

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Iraq: US Sunni Allies Protest Killings

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warwire, Al Queda, Sunni Awakening, Sunni Insurgency, Sunnis, The Great Awakening, Al Quaeda, Politics News

BAGHDAD — An anti-al-Qaida Sunni group announced Saturday it was temporarily withdrawing from its alliance with the American military in protest...

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