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Human Right Watch Decries Efforts to Reject People Fleeing Wars in Syria and Iraq
Friday's deadly attacks in Paris have set off a storm of calls to close borders and reject refugees.
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William Rivers Pitt | Hillary Clinton Goes Bush League
Terrorists are not the only ones who use terrorism for personal gain.
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The US Is Still Manipulating the UN After 70 Years
Seventy years after the founding of the United Nations, armed conflict, especially US wars that violate the UN Charter, continues to plague the world.
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It’s a $cam! The US Way of War in the 21st Century
Somewhere between $31 billion and $60 billion taxpayer dollars have been lost to fraud and waste in the US' “reconstruction” of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Empire of Chaos: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Chomsky discusses the chaos and destabilization born of raining destruction upon other nations.
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Hillary Clinton Hasn’t Learned a Thing From Iraq
Clinton could shatter the glass ceiling for women, but she'd leave the old boys' military industrial complex intact.
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The United States’ Elite Forces Deploy to a Record-Shattering 147 Countries in 2015
Iraq, Afghanistan and other Special Ops “successes.”
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William Rivers Pitt | An Ample Presence of Corpses: The Legacy of George W. Bush
The invasion and occupation of Iraq was a smash-and-grab robbery writ large.
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What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
No one is predicting a world war from the mess in Syria. However, one finds a lot of pieces in play inside a tinderbox.
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Is the US Media Ignoring Military Burn Pits’ Harm to Middle East Civilians?
US media coverage of toxic burn pits during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars excludes the health impacts to civilians.