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Doubling Down in Afghanistan: Why We Refuse to Fold a Losing Hand
As Congress moves toward rubber-stamping yet another “emergency” supplemental bill that includes more than $33 billion for military operations, mainly to fund the latest surge in Afghanistan, maybe we …
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William Rivers Pitt | Down to Raisins
There is an old story about Abraham Lincoln spending vast amounts of time in the telegraph room of the War Department waiting for dispatches from his commanders in the …
CIA Drone Operators Oppose Strikes as Helping Al-Qaeda
Washington — Some CIA officers involved in the agency's drone strikes programme in Pakistan and elsewhere are privately expressing their opposition to the programme within the agency, because it …
On Having the Right to Remain Silent
The Supreme Court has just ruled, in the case of Berghuis v. Thompkins, that a person has the right to remain silent as long as they tell law enforcement …
Meet the People on the Front Lines of BP
The Justice Department has confirmed it’s opened a criminal and civil investigation into the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, now believed to be the worst environmental disaster …
Breaking Up With Arizona
President Obama has a closed-door meeting today with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. DC is abuzz. What to call it? Is it a huddle, showdown, summit, smackdown or negotiation? The …
Connie Schultz | Let’s Give the Kids a Real Summer
Ah, June. Time for the carcinogenic clouds of outdoor grills, the buzz of neighborly yard tools drowning out low-flying aircraft and family arguments over who gets to wear …
John Pilger | The Black Art of “Master Illusions“
How do wars begin? With a “master illusion,” according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA's pioneers in “black propaganda,” known today as “news management.” In 1983, he described …
Robert Scheer | Treat Palestinians Like Jews
It was an act of international terrorism, pure and simple. There can be no valid claims of self-defense on the part of Israeli commandos who attacked a ship of …