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Obama, Progressives and Afghanistan

Robert Creamer | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Islam, Military, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Breaking News, Obama, Progressive Movement, Al Queda, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Progressives must not lose sight of the fact that, although we may disagree with President Obama's decision on Afghanistan, he shares a progressive vision of American foreign policy.

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Afghanistan: Obama's Fantasy Island

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Mcchrystal, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Afpak, Al Queda, Afghanistan, Hillary Clinton Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, Pakistan, World News
Michael Brenner

Obama will do the predictable next week and sign on to plans for an expanded American commitment in Afghanistan. In truth, he could not do otherwise -- for three reasons.

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French Charge 'Big Bang' Scientist

AP | NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Switzerland, Al-Qaida, Al Queda, Al Qaida, France, Cern, Big Bang Theory Terrorist Scientist, Particle Scientist France, World News

PARIS — A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of a...

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Afghanistan: Let's Go Home

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Al Queda, Hamid Karzia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

We are spending a fortune and in treasure and lives to defend a bad regime without gaining the gratitude of the people that we are supposed to be helping.

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Obama: Afghanistan War Is "Fundamental"

CBS News | Stephanie Condon | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Queda, War in Afghanistan, September 11th, Politics News

The war in Afghanistan is "fundamental to the defense of our people," President Obama said Monday, addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference ...

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Martini Movies, Francois Truffaut, Variety Magazine, On the Beach, Julius Rosenberg, Reagan, James Anderson, Al-Queda, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Los Ultimos Cinco, Enrico Fermi, Charles Bronson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stepin Fetchit, The Day the World Ended, Wille Zur Macht, Manhattan Project, Emperor Hirohito, Mokusatsu, Taliban, Carl Sagan, Mulholland Highway, Cosmos, William Phipps, Rod Serling, Pearl Harbor, Suzuki Kantaro, Harry Truman, Lord of the Flies, Genesis, Hiroshima, Arch Oboler, Leo Szilard, Klaus Fuchs, Potsdam Decleration, Douglass Macarthur, Nagasaki, Nietzsche, H.G. Welles, The Day After, Stalin, Orson Welles, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Lampkin, Uranium Fission, Fahrenhei 451, Nuclear Holocaust, Lavrentii Beria, Fat Man, Twilight Zone, William Golding, Red Army, Will Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mao Tse-Tung, North Korea, African-American Poetry, 5ive, Schopenhauer, Manchuria, Gyokuon-Hoso, Semipalatinsk, Five, The Late Show, Living News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Al Qaeda Offers Obama Conditional Truce If Troops Leave Muslim World

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Obama Administration, Obama Al Qaeda, Al Queda, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Al Qaida, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Advocacy, Qaeda Obama Offer, Al-Qaeda Number 2 Offers Truce, Al Qaeda's Conditions for Truce, Al Queda Truce Offer, Al Qaeda Truce, Al Qaida Offers Obama a Truce, Al Qaeda Conditional Truce, Conditional Truce Offer He Said Had Been Made by Al Qaeda Leader Osama Bin Laden., World News

CAIRO — Osama bin-Laden's deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader's offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe r...

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Guantánamo Detainees in U.S. Federal Courts

David Laufman | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Federal Court, Al Queda, Criminal Justice System, Obama Guantanamo, Criminal Trial, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
David Laufman

As the Obama Administration grapples with resolving the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo, one option which must be preserved is the criminal prosecution of detainees in U.S. federal courts.

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17,000 Troops? What's Really Behind the Thinking?

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Taliban, Al Queda, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Paul Fitzgerald

Whether it realizes it or not, Washington has placed itself in a fight for its life in Afghanistan, just the way the Soviets did.

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The Doctrine of "Sovereign Immunity" Presents a Grave Danger to Our Security

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sidney Harman, Mike McConnel, Congress, 12th Centrury, Saudi Princes, Green, Al Queda, Opec, Sovereign Immunity, The Adiministration, Fred Kaplan, Saudi Arabia, Representative Jane Harman, Energy, Aspen Institute, Wmd, Aspen Ideas Festival, Politics, Gen. Jack Keane, Michael Chertoff, Politics News
Raymond J. Learsy

Sovereign Immunity has its roots in old English law postulating that neither the sovereign nor the sovereign state can commit a legal wrong. It is an anachronism of another time and poses a great danger to our security.

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Adam Gadahn, American Al Qaeda Spokesman, Discusses Jewish Heritage

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

Read More: Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Adam Gadahn, Adam Gadahn Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Al Queda, Al Qaeda in America, Gadahn, World News

CAIRO — Al-Qaida's American spokesman said in a message released over the weekend that his grandfather was Jewish and encouraged him to visit Is...

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Listen to We, the People, Not They, the Obstructionists

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yemen, Economic Stimulus Package, American Indians, Scott Mcclellan, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Cnn, Saudi Arabia, Budget, Tony Snow, Neoconservatives, Geroge W. Bush, Media, Al Queda, Robert Gibbs, Stimulus Package, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

Republicans and their war bankrupted us and put us in harm's way. Now those same Republicans are helping Rush Limbaugh get his wish by making Obama and America fail.

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"I Hope Obama Fails" -- Limbaugh and Al-Qaeda Agree on Obama

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Violence, Coulter, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Marines, Politics, Service, James Dobson, Al Queda, Patriotism, Media News
Frank Schaeffer

American success terrifies some on the right. They know America's success and President Obama's success is, for now, one and the same.

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Why We Have The Wrong Strategy to Combat "Terrorism"

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Queda, Terrorism, Politics News
Sean Gilfillan

Instead of using all of OUR assets in intelligence, diplomacy, and military, we need to lead the way on creating an international law enforcement agency to fight against organizations that use terrorist tactics.

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Iraq: US Sunni Allies Protest Killings

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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Al Qaeda Targets Swedish Newspaper For Publishing Mohammed Cartoon

Editor & Publisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Swedish Newspapers, Al Queda, Prophet Mohammed, Mohammed Caricatures, Media News

A Swedish newspaper is under death threats from Islamic extremists after publishing a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed. Al Qaeda in Iraq is offering a...

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