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Syria
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American Bombing Still Likely: “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!“
Many Syrians have offered to open their homes to foreign supporters of Syria, who likely would be camped at key potential bombing sites.
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Russia, US Set November Deadline for Ending Syria’s Ability to Use Chemical Weapons
The United States and Russia on Saturday reached agreement on a plan that would end Syriau2019s ability to produce chemical weapons by November and would destroy all materials that …
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You Can Beat City Hall: How We Stopped the US Bombing of Syria
Robert Naiman: It wasn't anti-political engagement loudmouths who stopped the war. It was people who engaged Congress.
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What’s Putin’s Interest in Syria?
Aleksandr Buzgalin: Putin's aims in Syria through a domestic lens.
Systemic Causation and Syria: Obama’s Framing Problem
George Lakoff analyzes the language in public discourse on Syria from the perspective of cognitive science and linguistics.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: After Recession America Remains in a New Gilded Age, and More
In today's On the News segment: According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, based on numbers from the internal revenue service, the top ten …
Chris Hedges and Rania Masri On What the Future May Hold For Syria
Part two of writer Chris Hedges and scholar Rania Masri response to President Obama's Syria address.
Giving New Meaning to the Day After 9/11: Why Saying No to Syria Matters
Once again, we find ourselves at the day after 9/11, and this time America stands alone.
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What the “Average American” is Asking on 09/08/13
All agree that chemical weapons were used (even Assad agrees); the Administration says that we have overwhelming evidence that Assad's forces deployed these chemicals (Assad denies).
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Learning From World War I
The deadliness and unreliability of chemical weapons were not the only lessons of World War I. A far more important lesson is that a war can take on a …