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 …...
Foreign Policy
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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Obama’s Multigenerational Shadow War
“If George W. Bush is remembered by getting America stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s looking like Obama wants to be remembered as...
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Iraqi General Wants U.S. Troops to Stay Until 2020
Two British newspapers, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, quoted in their August 12 editions statements made by Iraqi Lieutenant General Babakir Zebari, who...
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Military Building Case to Delay Afghan Troop Pullout
The New York Times reported on August 11 that U.S. military officials are building a case to reduce the planned withdrawal of some...
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Public Support for War in Afghanistan Falls
A USA Today/Gallup poll released last week found that public support for President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy declined from 48 percent in February...
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Obama Claims “End” of Combat Operations in Iraq (Sort of)
President Barack Obama announced “America’s combat mission in Iraq would end” in an August 2 address to the Disabled American Veterans, but the...
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Who’s at Fault if WikiLeaks Endangers Innocents?
The federal government loves corporate whistleblowers; they get paraded before congressional committees and treated as selfless heroes out to protect the little guy...
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Pentagon Can’t Account for Iraq Reconstruction Funds
“A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi...
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Financial Reform Bill Fortified with “Conflict Minerals” Mandate
Is there any conflict in the world too remote or too irrelevant to U.S. national security for Washington not to interfere in it...
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Eight U.S. Troops Die in Afghanistan
Eight U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan during a 24-hour period running from July 13-14. A NATO statement cited by AP and...
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Alleged Wikileaks Source Bradley Manning Arrested
Federal officials charged the alleged source for the April Wikileaks video that exposed U.S. helicopter gunners committing war crimes in Baghdad in 2007,...
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Obama Proposes Supplementing Afghan/Iraq Soldiers With Social Workers
President Obama renewed his call for a “Civilian Expeditionary Workforce” to supplement the efforts of soldiers in U.S. war-zones in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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Steele Galvanizes Neocon Hawks
Michael Kinsley famously defined a gaffe as “when a politician inadvertently tells the truth.” That being the case, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael...
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