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By Paul Rieckhoff @ 2:46 PM (EST)
Shortly after Army Spc. Brandon Garrison returned from Afghanistan last June, his nightmares began:
“I remember waking up in the middle of the night. I’d sit straight up in bed and it was just hard to breathe and I was panicking and I remember my wife Lily asking me [...]
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by Cliff Schecter @ 11:56 AM (EST)
Many have already pored over the ins and outs of a Democratic debate tailor-made for “Enquiring minds” earlier this week on ABC. Well guess who just happens to be coming to dinner…or This Week, this weekend?
Why none other than John McCain!
So in the spirit of seeing how all the [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 8:56 AM MST
Midwest Earthquake Shakes Up Chicago Loop, Homes In Cincinnati
JIM SUHR | April 18, 2008 10:50 AM EST |
WEST SALEM, Ill. — Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago’s Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no [...]
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GEF @ 6:08 AM MST
Senate Ethics Chair Barbara Boxer Wants To Put Rep. Don Young in Jail?
Via: C&L
Rep. Don Young is looking at a world of trouble right now. He is accused of illegally adding a $10 million dollar earmark to a 2005 transportation bill after it had been signed off on by [...]
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Sudhan 10:20 CET
Newly Released Government Documents Show Special Forces Used Illegal Interrogation Techniques In Afghanistan
By American Civil Liberties Union, April 16, 2008
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents today from the Department of Defense confirming the military’s use of unlawful interrogation methods on detainees held in U.S. custody in Afghanistan. The [...]
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Sudhan @10:00 CET
Marjorie Cohn | Global Research, April 17, 2008
On April 1, a secret 81-page memo written by former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo in March 2003 was made public. In that memo, Yoo advised the Bush administration that the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel would not enforce U.S. criminal laws, including [...]
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Sudhan @09:40 CET
Leader
The Guardian, UK, Friday April 18 2008
Like the Kennedy Library in Boston, where Gordon Brown makes the main foreign policy speech of his US visit today, most American presidential libraries are monuments to the past. The Carter Centre, near Atlanta, is totally different. Like its begetter, Jimmy Carter, it is focused on [...]
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