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Bill Moyers: On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture

2012-05-24T16:21:36Z

If we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, we'll redouble our efforts to make sure we're worthy of their sacrifice; we'll renew our commitment to the rule of law, for the rule of law is essential to any civilization worth dying for.

Read more: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Dilma Roussef, Abu Zubaydah, 9/11, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, Mohammed Al-QahtaniX Reckoning With Torture, South Africa, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Torture, Memorial Day, Memorial Day 2012, War on Terror, Politics News

Bruce Kluger: The GOP's War on Children

2012-05-23T01:56:38Z

As in most presidential election years, noisy battles have been raging as the nation's political armies gear up for what promises to be an even nois...

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The Badger Herald: Gitmo Trials Show Absurdity of War on Terror

2012-05-17T09:22:51Z

KSM's trial is the condensed metaphor for the way the west has dealt with terrorism. Only in this case, the prosecution knows better than to give in to what al Qaida wants.

Read more: Khalid Sheik Mohammad, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Bush Adminsitration, Ksm, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Benjamin R. Barber: The Beastie Boys and Interdependence: Adam Yauch's Civic Courage

2012-05-07T10:53:08Z

As we remember Adam Yauch and his pioneering musicality, we should also acknowledge his pioneering civic courage -- his identity as a punk musician and rapper for whom citizenship was a natural expression of art, and interdependence a necessary concomitant of citizenship.

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Fahad Faruqui: Guantanamo: Using Religion As A Tool For Torture

2012-05-06T09:01:26Z

Speaking to former Guantanamo detainee 727 was like talking to a prisoner of Azkaban, that terrible prison guarded by soul-sucking Dementors from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Read more: Quran, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Faith, Torture, Islam, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, War on Terror, Geneva Convention, Religion News

Arie Kruglanski: Learning From Bin Laden's Death

2012-05-04T22:05:11Z

Are we safer now than we were before the launch of our massive counterterrorism effort?

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Bob Cesca: Republicans Can't Handle the Truth About Bin Laden

2012-05-02T13:30:30Z

Regarding the campaign commercial, yes -- more like that, please. It's an important distinction that's crying out to be defined: while the Republicans might be good at coming up with scary bumper sticker slogans, the Obama team can actually do the job.

Read more: Bill Clinton, Fearmongering, Fear Mongering, President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Terrorism, War on Terror, Osama Bin Laden, Video, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Politics News

Richard N. Haass: Afghanistan: More Questions Than Answers

2012-05-02T10:33:36Z

Past sacrifice is a poor justification for continued sacrifice unless it is warranted. The truth is that while the United States still has interests in Afghanistan, none of them, other than opposing al-Qaeda, rise to the level of vital.

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Matthew VanDyke: How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life

2012-05-01T15:36:21Z

The course of my life was altered dramatically by Osama bin Laden in ways that I had never considered. Specifically, the response by my country to bin Laden's attack on 9/11 changed my fate and exposed me to a world and experiences that would lead me down a very strange path.

Read more: Libya, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Bin Laden, Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Politics News

Michael Brenner: The Eternal "War on Terror"

2012-05-01T10:03:15Z

We are into the second decade of the "war on terror." It now ranges from the mountains of Afghanistan to the jungles of Colombia. It has dominated our lives since 9/11. Yet there is no measure of success to gauge progress or to say when it may end.

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Imagining A Terrorist Attack On LA

2012-04-23T15:39:53Z

If Los Angeles were to fall victim to a terrorist attack, one of the most likely methods would be a "dirty bomb," USC researcher Adam Rose told The Hu...

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Daphne Eviatar: Obama Administration Writes Rights Out of New Indefinite Detention Law

2012-04-18T13:05:45Z

The Obama administration had an opportunity to make clear that it takes due process rights and international law seriously, and that, as the war in Afghanistan winds down, it plans to bring indefinite military detention without meaningful review, charge, or trial to an end.

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Malou Innocent: 'The American Homeland Is the Planet'

2012-04-17T18:05:50Z

Wars are incredibly wasteful and counterproductive to the goal of stopping terrorism. Unfortunately, U.S. officials remain hostage to the outdated notion that a specific territory matters -- they remain possessed by a sort of safe haven syndrome.

Read more: Homeland Security, War on Terror, Safe Havens, Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, War, Counterinsurgency, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Bill Quigley: Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

2012-04-13T13:08:30Z

The advanced technology of the war on terrorism, combined with deferential courts and legislators, have endangered both the right to privacy and the right of people to be free from government snooping and tracking.

Read more: Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Homeland Security, Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Government Surveillance, Counterterrorism, National Security Agency, GPS Tracking, Electronic Surveillance, Tracking, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

Pakistan To United States: No More Drone Strikes

2012-04-13T08:02:57Z

ISLAMABAD, April 12 (Reuters) - Pakistan's parliament on Thursday unanimously approved recommendations from its national security committee on tie...

Read more: Drone Attacks, South Asia, Cia, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Islamic Extremists, US-Pakistan Relations, Drone Strikes, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News

Robert Koehler: Chemical Warfare

2012-04-12T14:53:51Z

To fight our insane wars, we're wrecking our soldiers' ability to live with themselves and function in society, then regulating what's left of them with chemicals, which often make things immeasurably worse.

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Lippold Book Seeks to Put 'Forgotten' USS Cole Bombing Back On 'Front Burner'

2012-04-11T08:52:34Z

WASHINGTON -- Eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, suicide bombers sent by Osama bin Laden blew a huge hole in a U.S. Navy destroyer that had stoppe...

Read more: Uss Cole, Yemen, Video, War on Terror, Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Uss Cole Bombing, Guantanamo Detainees, Kirk Lippold, Guantanamo, Navy, US Navy, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Jess Coleman: Why We've Lost the War on Terror

2012-04-09T08:45:57Z

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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'Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape'

2012-04-08T10:10:45Z

The title of Charlotta Westergren's new exhibition is "SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape." SERE is a military program that originated to tra...

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Crofton Black: PREAL: The "Torture Textbook" That Took CIA Interrogators to the Dark Side

2012-04-05T18:25:59Z

The PREAL manual was a textbook for military instructors, outlining how to do role-plays to teach students about pressures they might be exposed to if captured by an enemy government.

Read more: War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, World News

Matthew VanDyke: Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism

2012-04-02T18:36:36Z

Journalists, pundits and politicians seem increasingly obsessed with fears that Islamists winning elections in the wake of successful Arab Spring uprisings will prove detrimental to democracy, regional security, and the War on Terrorism. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Read more: Libya, Democracy, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Islamists, War on Terror, Terrorism, World News

Harvard Kennedy School Democrats: A New Name for Occupy

2012-03-26T17:22:23Z

The word "occupation" suggests illegitimacy. It suggests force. It suggests a temporary and unfair arrangement. Occupiers in history don't win: it's the people whose land they occupied who are vindicated in the end.

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John W. Whitehead: Mayhem in the Making: A Political Circus, An Out-of-Control Government Bureaucracy and a Distracted Populace

2012-03-21T15:51:03Z

On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the day after the next president is elected, the government as we have come to know it -- corrupt, bloated and controlled by big-money corporations, lobbyists and special interest groups -- will be largely unchanged.

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Karen J. Greenberg: Ever More and Ever Less: The Unstoppable Legacy of the War on Terror

2012-03-19T11:05:24Z

Those who imagine the era of overreach in the name of national security coming to an end any time soon would do well to remember that some spectacular national security trials are on the horizon -- and that we may be entering a new age of governmental vindictiveness.

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Faisal J. Abbas: US-Pakistani Relations "Challenging," Says Ex-Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz

2012-03-19T09:05:51Z

Asked if the Pakistani government or the ISI could have possibly been involved in harboring Osama bin Laden, the former PM replies, "This is totally untrue."

Read more: India, Afghanistan, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, 9/11, Afghanistan Withdrawal, Pervez Musharraf, Iran, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Osama Bin Laden Pakistan, War on Terror, Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, World News