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News in Brief: Taliban Say They Are Winning the War in Afghanistan, and More
The Taliban has told the BBC that they are winning the war in Afghanistan and would refuse to negotiate with the coalition forces after US and British commanders suggested …
Cuba Travel Ahead for Americans? House Committee Advances Measure
Washington - Americans sunning on Cuban beaches and selling farm products without restrictions to the Cuban government – would such unfettered Cuba travel and trade boost prospects for freedom …
Counterinsurgency Down for the Count in Afghanistan
President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working. So said a parade of Afghanistan watchers during the flap over war commander General Stanley McChrystal’s firing. But what does that phrase, so …
Confirmation Wars: Why Talk of Elena Kagan’s “Judicial Impartiality” Is Missing the Point
Critics of the Senate's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are right to complain that the proceedings have degenerated into little more than political theater and grandstanding. …
UK to Repatriate Kids to War-Torn Homes
Amid immigration stresses, Britain plans to turn asylum-seekers away. London, UK - Amid growing controversy over the treatment of refugees, the British government plans to begin forcibly returning child …
Hummer Rules
We need leadership that can reveal the invisible hand of government and remind the public that government is the instrument by which we the people regulate ourselves.
The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse Than the BP Oil Disaster
How many crises will it take? The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and Big Oil will pale in comparison to the destruction wrought by Big Nuclear if we …
House Passes Financial Reform, but a Senate Hurdle Awaits
President Obama got one step closer to signing a major financial reform bill, as the House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a House-Senate compromise on the measure. …
The Politics of Death: Throwing Mumia Abu-Jamal Under the Bus
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” -Frederick Douglass
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Liberal Militarist Diversion
On May 27, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to the latest defense spending bill that would lift the ban on gays in the US military and …