The All-embracing United Nations
Item: The Associated Press reported on July 15 on the UN’s proposed Arms Trade Treaty to regulate weapons worldwide: The French Ambassador, Eric...
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U.S. Special Forces Operating Secretly in 120 Countries
Most Americans are aware that U.S. forces are involved in missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Those who pay closer attention to the...
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Cost of War Brought Home by Deaths in Afghanistan
While much of the nation's news for the past several weeks has been focused on the national debt, the killing of 30 U.S....
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Foreign Intervention: “Moral” Attacks?
When Chalmers Johnson, a retired Asian scholar and former Naval officer during the Korean War, visited Japan in the mid-1990s, he was surprised...
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UN Arms Trade Treaty Closer to Passage
The United Nations is preparing to finalize its Arms Trade Treaty in 2012, better known in the United States as the Small Arms...
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Shh! There’s a Secret CIA Prison in Somalia
With President Barack Obama having issued an executive order banning secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons and then-CIA Director Leon Panetta having stated that...
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Rep. Allen Criticizes Plan to Sell U.S. Tanks to Egypt
A strong supporter of Israel, Florida Republican Representative Allen West (left) has openly railed against the plan to sell U.S. tanks to Egypt...
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Secy. Clinton Recognizes Libyan Rebels as Official Govt of Libya
The Associated Press reports: ...
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Has Delta Airlines Signed on to Anti-Jewish Saudi Policy?
The American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ), a conservative legal advocacy group, is targeting Delta Airlines’ new partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines,...
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Wars’ Costs Pegged at $4 trillion; $20 billion a Year for Air Conditioning
The cost to the United States of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan over the past 10 years has been somewhere between...
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Secretary Clinton Says No Peace Without the Taliban
On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that peace negotiations in Afghanistan must include the Taliban if they are to be successful...
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Obama Troop Withdrawal Will Leave 70,000 Soldiers in Afghanistan
President Obama addressed the nation June 22 to announce a gradual drawdown of the approximately 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan by withdrawing some 10,000...
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Obama’s Falklands Policy: a Break from the Founders
In a break with America’s conventional policy on the matter, the Obama administration announced earlier this week that it would once again be...
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Incoming Defense Chief Indicates Prolonged U.S. Iraq Role
American troops have occupied Iraq since March 3, 2003. Eight years later, after the declaration of one president that the mission was accomplished...
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Panetta: Iraq Likely to Request U.S. Troops Stay On
Think U.S. troops will be leaving Iraq by the end of the year? Think again. CIA Director Leon Panetta, who has been nominated...
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