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Opinion: Why It Matters that We Call the Russian Invasion What It Is: Genocide, Not War
we shouldn’t refer to their acts of barbarism and wholesale mass murder as “war.” We need to call it what it is: an act of genocide
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Worries Arise Over Where Trump’s Sudden Militarism Will Take Us
Trump’s isolationist hypocrisy is the least of our problems. It is where that hypocrisy is taking us, and at an ever-increasing pace
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Opinion: Trump Doesn’t Care That American-led Airstrike Kills 18 Syrian Allies
Central Command issued a statement calling the careless attack on American allies a tragic episode and said the cause of the 18 Syrian rebels’ deaths is under investigation.
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Krugman: Trump Distracts From the GOP Pledge To Double Down On W. Bush Policies
Krugman says the GOP establishment is determined “to take whatever didn’t work from 2001 to 2008 and do it again in a more extreme form”
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Paris Terror Attacks Will Trigger Weekend-Long Republican War-gasms
The Islamic State counts on the response they’re going to get from Republicans this weekend, and GOP leaders will be only too happy to oblige
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Bernie Sanders Shreds Republican Hypocrites For Not Understanding The Real Cost of War
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is completely shredding Republicans by calling out their hypocrisy of being pro-war, but refusing to take care of our veterans.
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If Republicans Really Supported The Troops They Wouldn’t Propose Privatizing the VA
If Republicans supported the troops and appreciated the sacrifice of those who made it home alive then they would not propose privatizing the Veterans Administration.
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Ralph Nader Attacks the Imperial Presidency but Ignores the Do-Nothing Congress
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
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The Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Think Tank. Think Tank?
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
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An Examination of a Legit Defense Expenditure Would Out a Number Of Illegitimate Money-Wasters
The U.S. has an enormous number of military personnel and weaponry in the U.S. territory of Guam. It’s legit, but are other ‘occupations?’
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It’s Time to Start Treating Cuba as a Neighbor
The American government persists in shutting out communist Cuba while welcoming communist Vietnam and China. It’s time to bring Cuba aboard.
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The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview
Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and his recent scree
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One fiery speech and the Syrian threat is taken to a whole new level
Reporting on the recent Assad defiant speech and a recent story on Russia’s role in the Syrian civil war. Syria may explode
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Opposition to Chuck Hagel is a No-Win Scenario for the GOP
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
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The civil war in Syria may be coming to a head as negotiations urged
The Syrian civil war drags on. Russia is sending ships and marines to Syria and both the U.S. and Russia are pressuring Assad to negotiate.
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Tea Party Fantasies of Sending Obama to Prison for Benghazi
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
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Pamela Geller Really, Really Hates Islam, Obama, and the UN
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
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Obama’s Support for Israel’s Iron Dome Gives GOP Fits of Cognitive Dissonance
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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What do Kim Kardashian, Milkshakes and the Middle East have in common?
Kim Kardashian is heading for the mid-east to open 2 new Milk Bars. She’ll also learn move about the region after a twitter controversy.
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How the Pax Americana is to Blame for Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
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In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
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Pamela Geller’s New Ad Campaign Calls Muslims Savages
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
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Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
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Romney and Ryan – The Haters in Chief
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
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Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago
John Kerry exposed the Romney-Ryan foreign policy as the neocon shell game that it is, contrasting it with the steady hand of Barack Obama
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The GOP’s Dystopian Dream of America’s Future
Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren’t mountains without tops more frightening than an IUD?
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The Tea Party May Think it Runs the Country, but They are Wrong
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
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American Fatwa: Challenging the Drone Killing of Progressive Values
We should be really clear about the lines we’re crossing if we don’t challenge the undemocratic killing of what are effectively international gang leaders.
Big Money is Rolling in for State Candidates
While political attention is riveted on Washington, millions of dollars are flowing into state campaign coffers in preparation for a rebirth of the Articles of Confederation where states will function as their own bosses and to hell with Washington..
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Senate Study Proves Republicans Wrong on Torture
After a three year study, the Senate Intelligence Committee is confirming what many of us already know. Aside from being un-American, immoral and illegal, the Bush Administration’s torture policy didn’t work.
The Catawampus State of 2012 America
The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.
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How the Republican War Machine Has Lied to America About Iran
The imminent threat from Iran that Republicans like to fear monger about has existed since Ronald Reagan, and the surest way to blow up the world is to allow the GOP to bomb Iran.
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Deadbeat War Hawks Want more Blood and Pillage in Iran
The American military industrial complex is gearing up our army to butcher through the Iranian people, and the bill will land in our laps.
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Mitt Romney’s Errand Boy, Ron Paul Calls Rick Santorum a ‘Liberal’
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney’s errand boy, who is in charge of making Rick Santorum look bad to his conservative base says Rick is very liberal.
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Are Britain and Argentina Headed for Falkland Islands War Redux?
Argentina is demanding the “return” of the Falkand Islands, which are British territory and inhabited by English-speaking British citizens.
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Incontinent Marines Are Unintentional Anti-Heroes
While we cannot excuse deplorable behavior, we ought not to delude ourselves that the urinating Marines are unusual. Rather, it is symptomatic.
Santorum Doctrine to Attack Nations If We Don’t Like Their Religion
Santorum says it is okay to attack another country if we don’t like their religion, even though that religion sounds a lot like Christianity
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Sarah Palin Doesn’t Know the Difference Between North and South Korea
This morning on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Sarah Palin revealed that she thinks North Korea are our allies and she’s gravely concerned over Obama’s handling of our North Korean allies. So, yeah. Sarah Palin doesn’t know the difference between North and South Korea.
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America Falling Down: We’re Not the Good Guys Anymore
We suffered a mental collapse, the same thing that happened to William Foster in Falling Down. But what Foster did was wrong; what America did was wrong.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry Dreams of a Second Mexican War
Rick Perry is talking about a Second Mexican War à la Zachary Taylor and the Halls of Montezuma. Maybe he sees himself as another Black Jack Pershing.
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Bryan Fischer Wants You to Leave Him on the Battlefield
Saving lives is feminine. We’ll remember that if Mr. Fischer ever finds himself on a battlefield. “Sorry, it wouldn’t be manly to save you. You understand.”
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Those Don’t Tax But Spend Republicans At it Again
American defense spending in 2007 alone amounted to just over half of what was spent in the entire world. In 2008 it was close to 70%. It hasn’t declined appreciably since. I will ask again: Who is going to attack the United States?
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Going Rogue: The Bush Doctrine and American Exceptionalism
For Bush, war became THE political instrument. No longer does war pick up where politics leave off; war becomes a substitution for politics.
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The Tale of the Weepy Orangeman
In the wake of the 2010 midterm elections it is important to know who John Boehner is and what it will mean to have him as Speaker of the House. Obviously,there are some concerns with Boehner’s very old-fashioned, shall we say…conservative…positions. One might say ULTRA conservative.
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The GOP’s Unconstitutional Remedies
The American Revolution ended British rule; the Constitution created the United States of America, and that creation did not all happen at once. It was a process; the United States is the result of political compromise and evolution, not violent overthrow.
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The GOP is Living on a Prayer
The Republicans talk a lot about prayer, a natural off-shoot of their tendency to talk about God. If there was any lingering doubt about the Grand Old Party having become God’s Own Party, the 2008 elections should have dispelled it, and the lead-up to the 2010 midterms have only cemented the new Republican focus. Sharron…
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Propaganda Tool Sarah Palin Uses Pat Tillman to Glorify War
Sarah Palin spoke in San Jose yesterday, where she engaged in her usual faux-military cheerleading speechiness. Never mind that in Alaska Palin was known for being disdainful and disrespectful of many vets who served her, this is a narrative about the great Divider who waves the flag and loves blood, so naturally she has to mix God and war together. In the course of this, she felt compelled to bring up Pat Tillman since he was from San Jose.
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Republicans Defy Military Leaders By Not Condemning Quran Burning
Both top US commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, and one of his deputies, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, are warning Americans that burning the Quran will endanger the troops in Afghanistan (and around the world), who are there fighting a war started by Republican President George Bush. A fearful nation awaits a leader from the Republican Party to grow enough courage to take a stand for us and for our troops and their mission.
About Last Night, Republicans….
And then yesterday, as the President got ready to announce the last combat troops were out of Iraq, and the nation could finally let out its war-weary breath on one front, Republicans had the nerve, the unmitigated gall, to warn the President of the United States to not take “credit” for Iraq. Instead of acknowledging these sacrifices over your mistake, instead of fighting for Veterans’ benefits, instead of finding one damn thing to be positive about, Republicans can not stop being ungrateful, petty, small-minded, empty-hearted partisan hacks.
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Sarah Palin Glenn Beck And The Conservative Hero Myth
The conservative demand for heroes is more intense than ever. There can never be enough dead heroes, Reagan, McCarthy and others, and living heroes seem even more in demand to judge by the quality of those being put forward, like Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, and by his own reckoning, Glenn Beck.
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The Ghost of Vietnam Haunts the Left and Right Over Iraq
I don’t know about you, but for years, I’ve been secretly longing for that Time Life moment post World War II; the kiss of a returning soldier, the final exhale of an exhausted nation. I can’t say that I pictured a happy America, but I had imagined a unified America. But we aren’t going to get that moment, because there was a war in between WWII and Iraq. We’re scared. Not only have we’ve been lied to rather recently (WMD), but we’re battling with our national scars from our defeat in Vietnam.
Reflections on a Crusade Gone Wrong: Bush’s Iraq War 2003-2010
Now that the last US combat brigade has driven into Kuwait, it is an appropriate time to look back at the Iraq War and to reflect on how it matters a great deal who we elect as our leaders. There are lessons to be learned, and we owe it to future generations to heed them.
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A Plea for American Healing As the War in Iraq Winds Down
The criticism of leaving Iraq comes from all sides. For the Left the troops can’t get out fast enough, and to the Right the troops should never leave at all. The Iraq War is a moral dilemma that has divided America for seven plus years. As it winds down, it’s time to start healing.
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The Voices for Peace Prevail as Obama Keeps His Iraq Promise
During his year a half as President, the nation, struggling under the weight of epic economic woes, easily tossed their hope and change by the wayside. Cynicism was the mood of the day. In August 2010, Americans find themselves a nation so battered by economic troubles and weary of war that they are unaware that our President is keeping his word on Iraq.
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President Obama Relieves General McChrystal of His Post
McChrystal arrived at White House ready to tender his resignation Wednesday at 10:00 AM. At 1:15 PM, MSNBC announced that President Obama relieved General McChrystal of the Afghanistan war which McChrystal was commanding. MSNBC is reporting that General Petraeus has been chosen to replace General McChrystal as commander of the Afghanistan forces.
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Rachel Maddow Lasers in on McChrystal’s Counterinsurgency Doctrine
What may come as a surprise to the General is that his own actions are casting doubts regarding the General’s own counterinsurgency approach in Afghanistan, and I would take that a step further and suggest that it’s time that civilian political leadership take back control of our military strategy, rather than relying so heavily on professional military officers.
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Franklin Graham’s One Man Jihad Against Freedom of Religion
Franklin Graham wants to use democratic principles to establish Christianity as the official state religion of the USA. He uses the idea of representative democracy and majority rule to qualify repression of the Muslim faith and sanction Christianity as the official religion of the United States of America.
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How Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy Will Save the World
After the historic Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty signed the previous week between the United States and Russia, the seemingly logical next step was to get as many nations together as possible to be on the same page. The threat of nuclear weapons getting into the wrong hands like al Qaeda or rogue nations like North Korea or Iran, who are currently developing nuclear weapons, should be of grave concern to the entire world.
Superman Obama Finds Bush’s Kryptonite Emails
The old right wing knows how to play the left’s justified concern over justice, truth and transparency to a t! Oh, I’m sure the unplanned delay of the announcement wasn’t politically motivated. LOL. I mean, just because everything else in the Bush Justice Dept was is no reason to think….Sure, many of the same people who were illegally appointed under Bush are still in the DoJ. But I’m still sure it’s all Obama’s fault, even if he fixed it.
Palin’s Hagiography Tour Strains Federal Law at Ft. Bragg
Sarah Palin appeared at Fort Bragg today, promoting her book, “Going Rogue” to the military. Palin had promised to limit herself to signing books, no politicizing her visit, amidst general concerns that her signing would violate Federal Law (Titles 10, 2, and 18, United States Code), Department of Defense (DOD) Directives, and specific military regulations strictly limit a military active duty person’s participation in partisan political activities.
Republicans Impose Their “Decider” Approach re Afghanistan Strategy
Republicans are insinuating that Obama’s “delay”, aka, seeking input from naysayers and congress before making a decision regarding strategy in Afghanistan, is indicative of weakness on Obama’s part. Apparently, Republicans have been suppressing Congressional War Powers and the Constitution for so long now that they just assume it’s a given that everyone does so, and failure to do so is smugly rebranded as “delay”.
Republicans Threaten Terrorist Attacks if Holder Investigates Torture
Republicans are playing the terrorism card to dissuade Attorney General Eric Holder from investigating torture. Nine GOP lawmakers have sent a letter to Holder warning that the U.S. could face a terrorist attack if the attorney general appoints a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA’s use of torture against “war on terror” suspects.
Coleman Congratulates Franken on Senate Win
After the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Al Franken should be certified the winner of the 2008 US Senate race in Minnesota, Republican Norm Coleman released a statement conceding the race, and congratulating Franken. Coleman said, “The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken and I respect its decision and will abide by the result.”
Republicans Accuse Al Franken of Trying to Steal the Election
The Republican National Committee and the Coleman campaign released statements today calling Democrat Al Franken’s attempt to certify his Senate victory outrageous and underhanded. The RNC statement also claimed that Franken’s lead is artificial.
Reid Pressures Coleman to Concede
During his statement to the new Congress, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) waded into the disputed Minnesota Senate race by referring to Republican Norm Coleman as a former senator, and he called on him to concede, but Coleman said he will be filing suit to contest the certification of Al Franken as the winner.