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20 hours ago ago from nicolanasser
By Nicola Nasser* Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by the U.S. occupying power. An editorial of The Washington Post on December 8 hailed the passing two days earlier of an ...
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Veterans Group Calls on Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq Monday 14 December 2009 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t Report In response to President Barack Obama's announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward! , with comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their ...
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6 hours ago ago from Christian Data Resources
Is it time to withdraw from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Let's step back for a moment and consider the current status of both wars: Cost The cost of lives for the U.S. is about 6,000: 5,200 from our military, plus 800 civilian contractors and journalists. The deaths for Iraqi soldiers and other Coalition forces total 10,500. Estimates for the number of Iraqi civilians killed range as high as 600,000. In addition, the ...
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Wikipedia describes the war on terrorism this way: The War on Terrorism or War on Terror is the common term for what the George W. Bush administration perceived or presented as the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism, Islamic militants and regimes that supported them, and was specifically used in reference to operations by the United States, the United Kingdom and its allies since September 11, ...
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2 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The President and his Generals By Karel van Wolferen (8 Dec 0 9) One of the best things that has happened since Barack Obama took over from George W. Bush is that 'the most powerful man in the world' no longer sounds like he is speaking to 11 year olds. Obama's oratory has been not only a great asset for himself - it elevated him to where he is - but also a pleasure to listen to, even though in the past eleven months it has largely been ...
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Recently, President Barack Obama hosted a White House Tribal Nations conference with representatives from all 564 federally recognized U.S. tribes. Bringing "about meaningful change for those who had, for too long, been excluded from the American dream," was a driving force behind his presidential bid, Obama said. "And few have been more marginalized and ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans, our first Americans." The ...
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