Combat in Iraq Continues as Plans for Long-term U.S. Presence Are Laid
On August 31 President Barack Obama announced that “the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.” ...
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News Contradictions: Americans Must Pursue Truth
Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, was once quoted as saying, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the...
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Iraq to Buy 13B in U.S. Military Equipment
USA Today reported on September 2 that Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in U.S. arms and military equipment....
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Obama Claims End to “Combat Operations” in Iraq
President Barack Obama claimed August 31 in an Oval Office address to the nation that “tonight, I am announcing that the American combat...
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(Supposed) End of U.S. Combat Role in Iraq
Speaking in a television address broadcast nationally just hours before the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq on August 31, Iraqi...
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Boondoggles in Baghdad, Basra, and Beyond
Your tax dollars at work, as reported by the Associated Press: “As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds...
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Trilateral Commission Keeps Expanding
Launched in 1973, the Trilateral Commission (TC) listed an initial roster of 187 members, all of whom hailed from three areas: Western Europe,...
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American Held by North Korea Returns Home
Aijalon Mahli Gomes — a U.S. citizen imprisoned in North Korea last January, and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with...
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Karzai Aide Suspected of Link to CIA
The New York Times on August 25 quoted unnamed Afghan and U.S. officials who asserted that the chief of the Afghan National Security...
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Peace Activists Attempt to Stop Iraq Deployment at Ft. Hood
According to the Daily Paul website, early Monday morning, August 23, five anti-war protesters wearing black shirts that read “Disobey,” attempted to block...
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Pentagon Denounces Taliban Claims About PFC Bergdahl
According to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials, missing U.S. Army Private Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, has become a Muslim...
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First U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq Since “Withdrawal” of Combat Troops
The first U.S. soldier in Iraq has been killed since the withdrawal of the last “combat” brigade from the country on August 18,...
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Obama’s Order to Close Guantanamo: 19 Months and Counting
Two days after taking the oath of office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order stating that “the detention facilities at Guantanamo …...
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Pixie Dust, Treason, & Spies
“Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama will try to jump-start economic links this week as Russia’s president travels to Silicon Valley and Washington, building...
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SEC Fines GE Over “Oil for Food Program” Corruption
For years, conservatives and constitutionalists have called for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations for a variety of reasons, specifically...
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