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Afghanistan: Time To End This War

March 7th, 2012 Comments Off

Western officials are hoping the violent outburst after the careless Koran burning at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan will not happen again. Despite their deepest desires there is no doubt that it will. This was not the first furious demonstration against the U.S. and its NATO partners, who Afghans consider occupiers, and it definitely will [...]

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Today’s Take – As the World Turns

August 25th, 2011 Comments Off

This week’s earthquake is all but a distant memory. After covering it incessantly for several hours, showing the horror of the tremor that knocked chairs over and shook the CNN newsroom, most news stations went back to their continuous coverage of “the almost fallen” “yet to fall” “inevitable fall” of Qaddafi and his regime in [...]

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Today’s Take – Muddle in the Middle East, GOP Gods and more…

August 22nd, 2011 Comments Off

The Muddled Middle East We start today with the news that one more repressive government, this time in Libya, is gone – well more or less. So far it seems as though The National Transition Council (NTC) spokesperson Mustafa Adel Jalil, is in control control and saying all the right things about equality, peace, justice [...]

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OBAMA's WAR: The Next Best Steps in Afghanistan?

December 1st, 2009 4 Comments

This article was originally posted at The World Policy Institute. Tonight, America’s commander-in-chief will address the nation to outline his new Afghanistan strategy. Among other things, this means many of the West Point cadets in the audience will learn what their immediate futures have in store. According to White House officials, President Obama will comply [...]

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Face Off: Afghanistan

November 4th, 2009 Comments Off

Tune into my segment with Max Boot and Jeremy Schahill on Lou Dobbs. “

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