By Sarah Morrison From Ammon News | Original Article It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war. Fallujah’s homes and businesses were left shattered; hundreds…
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10-16-12 State Department official: Negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan starting soon
By Josh Rogin From Foreign Policy | Original Article Despite statements by Vice President Joe Biden, the State Department is about to begin formal negotiations over the extension of U.S. troops past…
10-7-12 Peace March Against Drones in Pakistan Ends with Rally After Convoy Stopped by Army
By Kevin Gosztola From The Dissenter | Original Article To show solidarity with the people of Waziristan in Pakistan, who have experienced and been victims of US drone strikes, thousands of Pakistanis…
10-5-12 US drone war in Pakistan prompts fear and anger
By Orla Guerin From BBC News | Original Article In Pakistan, former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan plans to lead a march to the tribal areas this weekend to protest against…
10-5-12 Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
By Noam Chomsky From In These Times | Original Article With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most…
10-2-12 Syria, the story thus far
By William Blum From KillingHope.org | Original Article “Today, many Americans are asking — indeed I ask myself,” Hillary Clinton said, “how can this happen? How can this happen in a country…
10-1-12 Finally, Omar Khadr Leaves Guantánamo and Returns to Canada
By Andy Worthington From AndyWorthington.co.uk | Original Article Eleven months late, the Canadian government has finally signed the paperwork authorizing the return to Canada from Guantánamo of Omar Khadr. A Canadian citizen,…
10-1-12 Silence of the Drones
By Ray McGovern From Consortium News | Original Article Exclusive: Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq and has begun to wind down the Afghan War, the lethal reach of…
9-29-12 Romney surrogate slams Obama’s Libya response with homophobic slur
By David Ferguson From The Raw Story | Original Article Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and surrogate for presidential hopeful former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) John Bolton harshly criticized the…
9-29-12 Is CIA chief Petraeus running for president — of Princeton?
By Agence France-Presse From The Raw Story | Original Article A college newspaper has set off a wave of speculation that David Petraeus, the general-turned-CIA-spy-chief, might want to leave his job to…
9-19-12 Protests Against Drones Spreading
By Joe Scarry From World Can’t Wait | Original Article Protests against U.S. drone killing and drone surveillance are breaking out all over — there are events happening in state after state,…
9-19-12 Seeing Afghanistan Differently than the Occupiers See It
By Debra Sweet From World Can’t Wait | Original Article Plans by the U.S. to maintain a Special Forces occupation of Afghanistan until 2024 are being severely tested. But only press from…
9-18-12 Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA
From RT.com | Original Article US President Barack Obama. (AFP photo/Robyn Beck) A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to…
9-16-12 Hicks forced to take high drug doses in Guantanamo
By Natalie O’ Brien From The Sydney Morning Herald | Original Artcle David Hicks in Sydney recently. GUANTANAMO Bay detainees, including David Hicks, were forced to take high dosages of anti-malaria drug…
9-15-12 Death at Guantánamo Bay
Editorial From The New York Times | Original Article Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a Yemeni citizen and one of the first detainees sent to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2002, died there…