Global War on Terror

America As Self-Declared Victim

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Obama Administration, Obama Kill List, Kill List, Barack Obama, War on Terror, Terrorism, American Exceptionalism, Global War on Terror, Politics News
Michael Brenner

We have made torture a national policy, we have besmirched our good name in the eyes of the world, we have been passive accessories in repealing some of our most cherished liberties, we lie with impunity and we accept lies from our rulers as natural and necessary.

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Troops Out, Now What?

American Anthropological Association | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Support the Troops, Global War on Terror, Afghanistan, US Troop Withdrawal, Ptsd, Counterinsurgency, Iraq War Veterans, College News
American Anthropological Association

Militarism in the U.S. seems to have a gravitational force pulling a wide array of resources and sectors into its orbit. Our involvement with Iraq serves as a case study for how deeply rooted militarism is in American culture and political life.

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Scoring the Global War on Terror

Andrew Bacevich | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: U.S. Afghanistan, U.S. Iraq, War on Terror, Global War on Terror, Global-War-on-Terroism, War on Terrorism, World News
Andrew Bacevich

With the United States now well into the second decade of what the Pentagon has styled an "era of persistent conflict," the war formerly known as the global war on terrorism (unofficial acronym WFKATGWOT) appears increasingly fragmented and diffuse.

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Most Americans Want to Support Troops, They Just Don't Know How

Torrey Shannon | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Veteran Care, Wounded Veterans, Patriotism, Veteran Support, Helping a Hero, Veterans PTSD, Impact News, Nonprofit News, Traumatic Brain Injury, Nonprofit Organizations, Global War on Terror, Military Support, Adaptive Housing, Spark Energy, Iraq Soldiers Amputees, Impact News
Torrey Shannon

Less than 1% of our American population is serving in the military. The other 99% of Americans must -- and need -- to do their part. A yellow ribbon bumper sticker just won't cut it anymore.

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Six Things to Grieve on 9/11 Anniversary

Lisa Schirch | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Politics, War on Terror, US Security, September 11, 9/11, US Foreign Policy, Global War on Terror, Human Security, World News
Lisa Schirch

Without any real public deliberation or contemplation, the U.S. rolled out the Global War on Terror playbook that instead of bringing security, has brought an expanded list of reasons to grieve and things to think about on this anniversary.

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35,000 Convicted For Terror Offenses Worldwide Since 9/11

AP | MARTHA MENDOZA | Posted 11.03.2011

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At least 35,000 people worldwide have been convicted as terrorists in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. But while some bombe...

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Republican Debt Ceiling Tactics Hold National Interest Hostage

Peter S. Goodman | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Tarp, Iraq War, Deficit, Debt Ceiling, War on Terror, Default, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Debt Limit, u.s. Deficits, Global War on Terror, U.S. Default, Business News
Peter S. Goodman

In any reasonable negotiation, both sides can assume that certain outcomes can safely be ruled out, chief among them the possibility that one party wi...

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Terrorism Where We Least Expect It

Paul Heroux | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Anwar Al Awlaki, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Beltway-Snipers, Fort Hood, Adam Gadahn, Pakistan, Terrorism, Terrorist, Global War on Terror, Nidal Malik Hasan, Osama Bin Laden, Home-Grown Terrorists, World News
Paul Heroux

President Bush used to say that terrorists hate freedom. Actually, terrorists use freedom, need freedom and have exploited freedom.

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Dan Froomkin

Reassessing The Cost Of The Post-9/11 Era, Post Bin Laden

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Global War on Terror, Costs of War, War on Terror, Iraq, Post 9/11 Era, Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden's death doesn’t end the post-9/11 era, but it does provide an occasion to look back at everything that’s happened si...

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CIA Director Panetta Declares War

Richard H. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard H. Smith

I have reservations about the basic counter-terrorist strategy in Afghanistan and beyond, inherited from a disreputable Republican administration. Unfortunately, I haven't heard of a better alternative.

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The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Crusades, Islam, American Islamophobia, Muslims, Cold War, Global War on Terror, Muslims in America, World News
John Feffer

This transformation of Islam into a violent caricature of itself comes at a somewhat strange juncture in the United States. All the elements seemed in place for us to turn the page on an ugly chapter in our history.

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Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread

Mark Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Levine

Perhaps politicians could see the folly of borders if they rode the Baghdad Railway together. But until then, a diverse group of musicians are reestablishing that once-promised cultural interchange.

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UK Law Should Recognize That Terrorists Aren't Just Criminals, They're Traitors

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamic Extremists, Global War on Terror, Europe, Islamic Radicalism, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, World News
Azeem Ibrahim

A terrorist is not the same as someone trying to cause physical damage who does not know why. They are seeking very specifically to rupture British security as a nation.

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The Chasm Between the Right and the Rest

Miles Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Miles Jaffe

The Right rejects all efforts by the center and left, Obama, European leaders or the United Nations, and ecumenical religious leader, to calm the storm and to appeal to Islamic moderates and isolate Islamists.

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All politics is local: Al-Qa'eda and the Afghanistan War

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Mull

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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Recovering from Empathy

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global War on Terror, Wikileaks Video, Media, Empathy, Iraq, Lynching, Afghanistan, Politics News
Robert Koehler

What I thought of, straight off, as I watched that 17-minute WikiLeaks video of Iraqis - including a Reuters photographer and his driver - being stra...

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The War in Iraq: Sunrise or Sunset?

Frida Berrigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frida Berrigan

Just as the Pentagon is preparing its exit plan -- or at least the rhetoric for its exit plan -- pressure is mounting for the military to stay.

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Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

Collaborative work is emblematic of the increasingly important field of global health diplomacy and the Muslim world has an enormous role to play in this new conversation.

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Messages To Fallen Soldiers: Myspace Memorials (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Mathew Palevsky/Mallika Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thousands of American men and women have lost their lives in the Global War on Terror since it began in 2001. For the loved ones left behind, the MyS...

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Veteran's Day: Share Your Stories And Memories

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq Death Count, President Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Global War on Terror, Veterans Day, Iraq, War on Terrorism, Video, Politics News

Veteran's Day commemorates the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, when an armistice signaling the end of World War I des...

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US-British Cooperations May Have Caught More Terrorists: Commentary

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three British men connected to Al Qaeda were convicted Monday of masterminding a massive terrorism plot that could have resulted in thousands of death...

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Missing Word, Missing World

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Engelhardt

Maybe what we need is fewer lies, less wind, and a new, stripped-down, weeded out, more honest vocabulary for our political world, words that don't fall so far short of the world as it is.

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Dick Cheney - The Republican Gift that Keeps Giving

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Global War on Terror, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Republican, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The Cheney model for the post-vice presidency seems to be to become the party's lead attack dog. It is difficult to fathom why Cheney has chosen to do this, but supporters of Obama should not be ungrateful.

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Blue Gold, Turkmen Bashes, and Asian Grids

Pepe Escobar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geo-Politics, Oil, Global War on Terror, Overseas-Contigency-Operations, Big Oil, World News
Pepe Escobar

As in any game of high stakes Pipelineistan poker, it all comes down to the top two global players. Place your bets: will the winner be Washington or Beijing?

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Getting Real on Shariah

M. Zuhdi Jasser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Islamist, Global War on Terror, Islamist, Shariah, Overseas Contingency Operation, World News
M. Zuhdi Jasser

Until Muslims are able to separate mosque and state, the slippery slope of Islamic supremacy will be a constant regardless of how deceptively modern \Shariah is.

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