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Islamic State, Kurdistan, and the New US War in Iraq
More than a decade after the start of the second Gulf War, the United States has embarked on a bombing campaign targeting Islamic State forces.
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There’s No Republican Mandate for More War
Some political pundits are spinning the Republicans' Senate takeover as a decree from the US electorate that Americans want President Obama's policies to be “more Republican.”
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At the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Fear Is the EntrĂ©e
Globalized techno-capitalism will own the future when it totally owns the spin-making machinery.
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Bold Satire Skewers Political Missteps
In her new book, ‘Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power,’ Susie Day uses wit and humor to critique contemporary politics.
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Attack on Canadian Parliament Fuels “Anti-Terror” Laws, Ignoring Ties to Mental Illness, Drug Abuse
As Canada mourns the death of a soldier gunned down while standing guard at the National War Monument in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing new anti-terrorism legislation.
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Truthout Interviews William Rivers Pitt on Chemical Weapons in Iraq
US soldiers did find chemical weapons in Iraq, but they weren't the weapons we were told about.
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Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Executives Remain Free as Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre
A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against four Blackwater operatives involved in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's Nisoor Square.
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Stop the Killing
We in the US must give up our notions of exceptionalism, recognize the economic and societal misery our country caused in Iraq, recognize that we are a perpetually war-crazed …
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William Rivers Pitt | George W. Bush: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
If US troops found thousands of chemical shells, which they dealt with at their peril, why didn't the Bush administration bellow the fact to the heavens?
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The Missing Context: “Islamic State” Sectarianism Is Not Coincidental
Iraqis turned against one another, as US troops mostly watched the chaotic scene from behind the well-fortified Green Zone.