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The story which reared its head then dropped off the radar in summer of 2010 is still alive: that the major source of funding for the Taliban is likely …

A US soldier looks over the Baiji Refinery in Baiji, Iraq, December 16, 2009. (Photo: Ayman Oghanna / The New York Times) As I write this, Israel's …

Women demonstrate at Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, on Feb. 25, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) Nabeel Rajab lives in the town of …

Elders and family members prepare to bury the body of three-month old Khan Mohammad at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, on February 8, 2012. Just a …

(Photo: abbyladybug) Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can …

Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum, is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who is fast coming to the fore. He won the Republican primary in Iowa (albeit by …

The most strenuous objection to an Iranian attack by Israel comes from recently retired Mossad head Meir Dagan, who called attacking Iran “the stupidest thing I have ever heard.” …

A photo of natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania, taken in August 2009 for shaleshock.org. (Photo: Attorney Helen Slottje) Pennsylvania's state legislature has effectively signed a death …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although Mitt Romney used the word “conservative” 19 times in a short speech at the February 10, 2012, Conservative Political Action Conference, …

The right is very good at making progressives pay for their mistakes. They still trot out failed programs from the '60s as a warning of the risks of wrongheaded …