truthdig.com - 5/11/2009
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The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war. READ THE WHOLE ITEM ...
agonist.org - 5/12/2009
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agonist.org —
The Big "Con" Taliban About to Defeat Pakistan
, Take Control of Nukes, and It's Another 9/11...
Michael Collins A strange feeling of déjà vu arises while listening to the administration sell further U.S. military intervention in ...
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The Big "Con": Holbrooke, Taliban, and… "Another 9/11"?
longwarjournal.org - 5/12/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
The US has conducted another airstrike in Pakistan's
Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. Eight Taliban fighters...
are said to have been killed in the second strike in South Waziristan in three day. An unmanned Predator strike ...
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US strikes in again in South Waziristan
article.nationalreview.com - 5/7/2009
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Digest for May 9th through May 11th
The Republic of T. —
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for May 9th through May 11th:
The Next Detainee Photo Scandal: Get Ready for Abu Ghraib, Act II -
Why Bush’s Torture Program Failed -
The GOP’s Desperate Fear Mongering -
Comedian Wanda Sykes has a field day at the 2009 White House Correspondents Dinner -
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy -
The GOP Clings to Guns, Gays, God, and "Go-Home" -
Hard Times for Women Living on the Edge: Economic ...
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