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How Many More Billions In Taxpayer Dollars Will The Military Industrial...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! Unless you read your NY Times in Pakistan, where the story was disappeared, you probably read about how the Pakistanis knew exactly where Osama bin-Laden was while...

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Barbara Lee’s First Endorsement

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! Barbara Lee made history– captured on the video above– when she displayed the guts to stand up and say “NO” to Bush/Cheney’s rush to war against Afghanistan in the...

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Call Congress TODAY to Repeal 2001 AUMF

From our partners at Just Foreign Policy We have an opportunity this week to push for the repeal of the 2001 AUMF. The Schiff-Garamendi amendment (#21) to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...

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Action alert: wars are not gym memberships

From our partners at Peace Action West Our longest war just got even longer.  President Obama just announced that the US will have boots on the ground in Afghanistan for another 2 ½ years. When...

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When Did The GOP Become The Unpatriotic Party?

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! I just started reading Rick Pearlstein’s new book, The Invisible Bridge: That Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. In the first chapter, he talks about who...

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Report your call telling your Senator to #StandWithReid on Bergdahl diplomacy

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Warmonger Media Storm Against Saving Sgt. Bergdahl Shows Why We Have So Much War

From our partners at Just Foreign Policy  If you want to understand why it’s the case that on the one hand the U.S. public and the majority of Congress turned against the war in Afghanistan a long time...

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Just what we need now is "Big Dick" Cheney and his ilk polluting public...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! And these lies and imbecilities come from a scumbag who should be living out the rest of his wretched existence in prison for his war crimes and crimes against...

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In the firing of SecDef Chuck Hagel, the person who comes out looking best...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! In announcing Secretary Hagel’s departure Monday, President Obama said only good things about him, but people who work for the president had already made sure that...

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American Octogenarians, Feinstein and Grassley, Demand A New War On Drugs… In...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! I was in Afghanistan twice, both times for extended stays, the first being in 1969. Over the years, I’ve written a few disparate posts about it on my travel blog...

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Gosh, if we’d only known about Mullah Omar, we could’ve at least sent a card...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! We could have had, like, a little memorial service? Or maybe sent a nice floral arrangement? (A local florist would have known what’s in season over there.) Milt...

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A Dark Side Of "Gay Culture"– In Traditional Afghanistan

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! How do you go into a relatively primitive traditional culture and demand it change because it doesn’t meet our 21st-century standards? I can remember arguing with...

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About that "War Crime"— Hospital Was Raided By Afghan Forces Three Months...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! by Gaius Publius There’s new reporting on the U.S. bombing of the Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. As...

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Call-in: Tell your Rep. to sign Ellison-McGovern-Lee-Grijalva for...

From our partners at Just Foreign Policy The October 3 US military bombing of a Doctors Without Borders [MSF] hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan killed twelve humanitarians and ten patients, including...

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The 2016 Primary: A Proxy Vote on the Afghan War?

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! Credit: Finbarr O’Reilly, file photo, Reuters (source; click to enlarge) by Gaius Publius We have yet to write much about Clinton’s foreign policy, partly because...

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$43 Million Gas Station In A Remote Part Of Afghanistan– Paid For With...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! I’m not in the least bit mechanically inclined. I came to terms with it before I even went to high school. Not too many years after high school, though, I was...

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Action alert: wars are not gym memberships

From our partners at Peace Action West Our longest war just got even longer.  President Obama just announced that the US will have boots on the ground in Afghanistan for another 2 ½ years. When...

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Time for the “zero option” in Afghanistan?

From our partners at Peace Action West   Reality seems to be setting in at the White House, with President Obama reportedly considering removing all troops from Afghanistan in 2014 rather than leaving...

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Was The Orlando Shooter Gay?

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! I just got back from my from my first visit to Azerbaijan. Corruption is rife and the government is authoritarian but those aren’t aspects tourists notice. The...

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America’s Longest War Isn’t Ending… Not As Long As It Continues To Feed...

From our partners at DownWithTyranny! Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Keith Ellison and Raúl Grijalva issued a statement after Obama’s press conference on Afghanistan: “We are disappointed...

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