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March 07, 2012 05:00 PM Crooks and Liars- By karoli Mitt Romney’s pathetic efforts to stain the President’s track record when it comes to foreign policy ring hollow and are actually dangerous, or could be. During his news conference yesterday, President Obama addressed Mitt Romney’s irresponsible comments about war with Iran in recent days. Here’s [...]

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February 15, 2012 Addicting Info  By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Rick Santorum is currently the poster boy for conservatism and the candidate leading the national polls among Republicans. Every day, Romney gets a little weaker, and Santorum gets a little stronger. And that makes him a threat to be the Republican Presidential nominee who faces [...]

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truthout Monday 18 April 2011 by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America. We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temple where greed [...]

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Militarized Conservatism and End(s) of Higher Education Tuesday 5 April 2011 by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout The Pathologies of War There can be little doubt that America has become a permanent warfare state.(1) Not only is it waging a war in three countries, but its investment in military power is nearly as much as all [...]

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Bill Kristol gets a war boner Crooks and Liars- By Brad Reed March 21, 2011 03:05 PM One of the many depressing aspects of Obama’s horrific decision to start a third simultaneous war with a Muslim-majority nation is that it’s providing endless pangs of pleasure to Bill Kristol. After all, America’s Chickenhawk-in-Chief hasn’t been able [...]

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Eric Margolis, The Huffington Post, Dec 20, 2010 After nine years of war in Afghanistan, costing over $100 billion in taxpayer money and 700 American lives, the full truth about this murky conflict remains elusive. The government and media have colluded to paint the picture of a noble, heroic, flag-waving American enterprise in Afghanistan that [...]

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by Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe, The Huffington Post,  Dec 5, 2010 When asked by USA Today‘s pollsters last week, sixty-eight percent of Americans said we worry that the cost of the Afghanistan War hurts our ability to fix problems here in the U.S. This week, we learned just how right we were about that. [...]

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Obama’s Massive Power Struggle with the American War Machine Asia Times / By Pepe Escobar Even if Barack Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite war. September 24, 2010 | As that self-appointed court stenographer Bob Woodward reveals in his latest court opus Obama’s Wars – conveniently leaked to the [...]

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by Paul Woodward, War in Context,  July 23, 2010 On September 11, 2001, America froze in shock and the shock was followed by a mix of fear, anger and bewilderment. Yet for some, the first response was also the enduring response: a knowing dread that what followed would be far worse than what just happened; [...]

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Could “Success” in Afghanistan Be Worse Than Failure? Tomdispatch.com / By Tom Engelhardt Success means that the fifth poorest country in the world and foremost narco state is ours for years to come. July 12, 2011, Washington, D.C. – In triumphant testimony before a joint committee of Congress in which he was greeted on both sides [...]

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