war
Real story of war: one damn thing after another
October 8, 2010WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange got it right about Afghanistan: "It's one damn thing after another ... the everyday squalor of war." What steps can we take to end it?
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California Senate contenders slug it out in debate
October 1, 2010Boxer said her Republican opponent, while CEO of Hewlett Packard, "laid off 30,000 workers, shipped jobs overseas, and she says she's proud of her record - well, that's her record."
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A view from Iraq
September 1, 2010How the Iraqis see it: an interview with Salam Ali of the Iraqi Communist Party on the continuing political impasse in Iraq and the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces.
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The U.S. and Iraq: what now?
August 27, 2010Since President Obama took office, more than 90,000 U.S. troops have come home from Iraq. The question is: now what?
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U-turn in Afghanistan
August 26, 2010As the ninth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan approaches, the war is failing, casualties are escalating among both U.S.-NATO forces and Afghan civilians, and Americans' support for the conflict is at its lowest ebb.
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