Nick Turse on TomDispatch.com: Defining success in Afghanistan
In today's TomDispatch, Nick Turse, author of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan, weighs in on the parameters for success in Afghanistan, ...
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David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York
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This week, CUNY announced that it would be bringing on an exciting new staff member: Former CIA director David Petraeus, who has been named "Visiting ...
Admiration of the Nation
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Sen. Lindsey Graham turns wine to vinegar on Obama and national security
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s recent harsh criticism of President Barack Obama over national security is a marked change from the South Carolina Republican’s ...
Army orders removal of Bible references from Fairbanks soldiers' weapon scopes
The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers at Fort Wainwright, an Army post in Interior Alaska adjacent to Fairbanks, to remove references to two Bible ...
Succeeding in Afghanistan
By: Peter F. Schaefer If we ignore village life – or try to bend it to our view of what it should be – we will fail in Afghanistan as we did in ...
Political Opportunism. The Boston Marathon Tragedy Used as a Pretext To Extend the “Global War on Terrorism”
In a 2011 interview for an Australian TV channel, US Republican Senator John McCain talked about Islamic extremism ‘spreading’ if left unchecked by ...