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Global War on Terror

Messages To Fallen Soldiers: Myspace Memorials (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Mathew Palevsky/Mallika Rao | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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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 11.10.2009 | Politics

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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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Opinion: Could U.S.-British Cooperation Have Caught More Terrorists?

GlobalPost | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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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 07.03.2009 | Politics

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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 06.23.2009 | Politics

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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 06.12.2009 | World

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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 06.11.2009 | World

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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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FBI Terror Watch List Highly Flawed: DOJ

New York Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has improperly kept nearly 24,000 people on a terrorist watch list based on outdated or sometimes irrelevant infor...

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"Obama Effect" On Muslim World Falling As Terrorism Rises

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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A new report from the American Security Project, "Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the War on Terror: An Interim Update", outlines troubling glob...

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Requiem for the War on Terror

Ira Chernus | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

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Ira Chernus

The Global War on Terror ends, not with parades and speeches, but with an obscure memo, a few news reports, vague denials, and a seemingly off-handed comment from Hillary Clinton.

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Will Muslims Hear the Change in Tone in Obama's Counter-Terrorism Policy?

Faiza Patel | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

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Faiza Patel

Changing the terms of the discussion signals a willingness to shift the paradigm, and such a signal could well find a receptive audience.

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(Re-) Creating Anbar's Awakening

Gabriel Ledeen | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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Gabriel Ledeen

Describing the Anbar Awakening movement as a miraculous Sunni uprising blinds us to the lessons we ought to have learned.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: March 24, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

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This item from DCist merits some attention: A television crew will create a special effects explosion on the Potomac River, near the Key Bridge, on W...

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The Terrorists are Coming, Warns Missile Defense Lover Cheney

Melissa Rossi | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Melissa Rossi

Word says Obama will slash the arms budget by 10 percent -- and Cheney's beloved missile defense program (the number 1 budget priority in the defense budget) is under the guillotine.

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A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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Kerry Kennedy

A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

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Cheney's Legacy of Deception

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

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Robert Scheer

In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.

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Starving the Murderers

David Suissa | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

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David Suissa

When violence strikes, we get angry and make all this noise about our "Global War on Terror," which only feeds into the jihadists' pathology and apocalyptic visions.

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After Mumbai

John Feffer | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

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John Feffer

This follow-the-leader effect may prove most horrific in the case of India. Believing neighboring Pakistan to be behind the Mumbai attacks, India is edging closer to its own war on terror.

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Obama Soft Power, Smart Power

Nancy Snow | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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Nancy Snow

Those of us who view ourselves as moderate independents may be the most satisfied with what comes out of the sausage factory, er, legislative process under Obama.

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Open Trade Within Closed Civil Society?

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din

A trade route may alleviate concerns for now; but it will take more than a reopened trade route to erase decades of continued manipulation by India and Pakistan over Kashmiri civil society.

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Bin Laden Used a Similar Strategy to Decimate American Capitalism as Reagan Used to Hasten End of Soviet Communism

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Both men used the same strategy: scare them into an arms race which they couldn't afford and which would undermine the very fabric of their economic, social and political system.

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Prisoners of War

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has sparked a great reckoning. Obama now argues that it represents a "failed philosophy." Yet, the Iraq War, surely the worst foreign policy debacle at least since Vietnam, has had little effect in challenging the "failed philosophy" that an imperial America is the "indispensable nation" needed to police the globe.

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Liberty For Not-All: Rethinking "The Global War on Terror"

James Pinkerton | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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James Pinkerton

A wrong-headed idea has infiltrated into our thinking. The cure for terroristic deeds is not freedom, it is control.

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The Ticking Iraqi Clock

John Bruhns | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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John Bruhns

The latest propaganda being formulated by those in a perpetual state of denial is that the Bush initiated this war and occupation as philanthropists for the Iraqi people. Explain that philanthropy to the 4.5 million Iraqi refugees.

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Israel's Exchange and Obama's Enemies

Steve Posner | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Steve Posner

Amid the cheers arising in Hezbollah's Beirut and the Gaza of Hamas, the sound of Obama's defense of Israel may also be heard.

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