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washingtonpost.com - 13 days ago
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Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says
he no longer knows why his nation is fighting
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
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nytimes.com - 12 days ago
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KABUL, Afghanistan Ahmed Wali Karzai , the
brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player
in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency , and has for much of the past eight years, ...
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Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll
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online.wsj.com - 30 days ago
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Associated Press Honduras's ousted President Manuel Zelaya
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Jim DeMint: What I Heard in Honduras
huffingtonpost.com - 25 days ago
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It's been a big week for Joe Biden,
with his position on Afghanistan landing him on the
cover of Newsweek. I have an idea for how he can capitalize on all the attention, and do what generations to come will always be grateful for: resign. On ...
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Why Joe Biden Should Resign
politico.com - 40 hours ago
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops delivered
a critical endorsement to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on
Saturday by signing off on late-night agreement to grant a vote on an amendment barring insurance companies that participate ...
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Bishops endorse the bill
nytimes.com - 11 days ago
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This article is by Thom Shanker , Peter
Baker and Helene Cooper . WASHINGTON President Obama
’s advisers are focusing on a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials said Tuesday, ...
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U.S. to Protect Afghan Population Centers, Officials Say
washingtonpost.com - 27 days ago
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Number of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Overlooks Thousands ...
people-press.org - 17 days ago
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There has been a sharp decline over the
past year in the percentage of Americans who say
there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. And fewer also see global warming as a very serious problem 35% say that today, down from 44% in ...
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Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
abcnews.go.com - 3 days ago
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Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded
in a shooting spree at a Texas military base
by what officials believe was possibly carried out by an Army officer. The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. The ...
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Twelve Soldiers Killed in Fort Hood Shooting
nytimes.com - 29 days ago
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Washington CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of
Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is
rapidly approaching zero. The divisions in our country on how to deal with climate change are deep. Many Democrats insist on ...
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Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)
nytimes.com - 28 days ago
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THOSE of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald
must acknowledge that he did get one big thing
wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Marion Barry, or William Shatner.) The real question is whether everyone deserves a second act. Perhaps ...
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Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco
nytimes.com - 9 days ago
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MEXICO CITY A lingering political crisis in
Honduras seemed to be nearing an end on Friday
after the de facto government agreed to a deal that would allow Manuel Zelaya , the deposed president, to return to office. The government of Roberto ...
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Deal Reached in Honduras to Restore Ousted President
thinkprogress.org - 3 days ago
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ThinkProgress’ Lee Fang snapped this photograph of a
prominent sign being displayed at today’s GOP anti-health care
rally. It’s unclear whether this sign is being handed out by Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group sponsoring today’s ...
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Right-wing protesters at GOP rally display prominent ...
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nytimes.com - 19 days ago
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AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its
active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman
emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry ...
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Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast
faustasblog.com - 9 days ago
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The BBC phrases it tactfully: Honduras rivals resolve
deadlock The interim leader of Honduras says he is
ready to sign a pact to end its crisis which could include the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Roberto Micheletti said the agreement would create a power-sharing government ...
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Honduran government caves into US pressure, agrees to ...
news.yahoo.com - 2 days ago
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FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting
rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead
reported that the gunman shouted " Allahu Akbar !" before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said officials had not yet ...
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Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted `Allahu Akbar'
lvrj.com - 21 days ago
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Stewart Rhodes, left, founder and spokesman of Oath
Keepers, talks to Kyle Zortman, 17, of Cedar City,
Utah, right, along with Oath Keeper members John Francois, second from left, and Pat Kerby of Pahrump during the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on ...
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READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 16 days ago
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Jeremy Ben-Ami of the liberal lobbying group J
Street is the man of the moment: The group's
upcoming conference in Washington has become a source of great controversy for many reasons . I interviewed Ben-Ami yesterday by telephone, and here is an ...
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Ami On Zionism and Military Aid to Israel
nytimes.com - 16 days ago
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia NATO defense ministers gave their
broad endorsement Friday to the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan
laid out by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal , increasing pressure on the Obama administration and on their own governments ...
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NATO Defense Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort
nytimes.com - 26 days ago
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Russia Resists U.S. Position on Sanctions for Iran
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Russia Resists U.S. Position on Sanctions for Iran
