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Julie Christie: I feared Bush would unleash a wave of sadism - he did »
Posted by: dissent 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
In a letter published earlier this week, she accused the Government of duplicity and the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, of helping to cover up the ...
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Kyrgyzstan moves to evict US troops »
Posted by: dissent 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan moved a step closer to evicting US troops on Monday after the government sent to parliament the final package of documents required to ...
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Afghan Pres. Karzai hopes Obama will "settle down," show "better judgment" »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Now, it seems the new U.S. president has a problem with another president, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, which Obama has long maintained is the ...
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Mohamed Farag Bashmilah: Disappeared in the Name of National Security »
Posted by: dissent 10 months, 1 week ago in News
From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with ...
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Obama Answers Cheneys Attacks »
Posted by: capj71 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
It is unusual for a vice president from the previous administration to attack the national security policy of the current president, but this is exactly ...
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Obama Drops the Term Enemy Combatant, but Keeps the Policy Vague | Politicususa »
Posted by: capj71 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
It was announced by the Justice Department that they would be dropping the term enemy combatant, and while this is a significant symbolic change, for ...
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Zubaydah: First Blood »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
What was the effect of this very dramatic and clear first foray into the dark side? It was not to reassess and pull back, given ...
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Barbara Ehrenreich: My unwitting role in acts of torture »
Posted by: dissent 10 months, 1 week ago in News
I was shocked to read online a Mail on Sunday article headed "Food writer's online guide to building an H-bomb ... the 'evidence' that put ...
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Memos Reveal Scope of Power Bush Sought in Fighting Terror »
Posted by: bubba2 10 months ago in Political News
The secret legal opinions issued by Bush administration lawyers after the Sept. 11 attacks included assertions that the president could use the nation's military ...
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War Reporting and Propaganda in Iraq and Afghanistan »
Posted by: dissent 10 months, 1 week ago in News
I have been there, you are right, and what I know I know from actually seeing it. The truth is, I didn't meet a ...
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Republican Hypocrisy on Terrorism Reaches New Levels of Awful »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 2 days, 4 hours ago in Political Opinion
Preside over the biggest terrorist attack in American history and it's an epic win for President Bush. Preside over a failed attack and it ...
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The two most noticeable incarnations of American oppression are the War on Terror and the War on Drugs »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 4 months ago in News
In short, if you read the inscription on the base of the Statue of Liberty, and think that phrases like "your huddled masses" might apply ...
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Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine »
Posted by: Beau7890 1 year, 4 months ago in News
Senator John McCain arrived late at his Senate office on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just after the first plane hit the World Trade ...
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Obama and the Politics Of Bollocks »
Posted by: hyperbola 11 months ago in Political News
There is a lot of bollocks about at the moment.... Far from "deconstructing [sic] the war on terror", Obama is clearly pursuing it with the ...
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'War on terror' was wrong »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 11 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The phrase gives a false idea of a unified global enemy, and encourages a primarily military reply
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