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An 'F' For Antiterrorism by <i>Foreign Policy</i> and The Center For American Progress, | June 26, 2006
Eight-four percent of foreign policy experts say the Bush administration is not keeping Americans secure. read more »Provoking A Fight: Your Letters by TomPaine.com Readers , | June 23, 2006
Sparring over The Good Fight, the minimum wage battle and the war in Iraq. read more »An Awkward Kerry Embrace by Matthew Rothschild, | June 22, 2006
A Democratic senator recalls Paul Wellstone as he clumsily backs a timetable for Iraq withdrawal. read more »Blasting Beinart's 'Fight' by Bill Scher and Isaiah J. Poole, OurFuture.org | June 20, 2006
Your intrepid editorial staff sat down Monday for a brown-bag lunch and discussion with author Peter Beinart about his book that is cutting through left-Democratic circles in D.C. like a hot macho knife through soft liberal butter. It’s called The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. read more »Saving Us And The Planet by John Sloboda , | June 19, 2006
The obsession of major world powers with terrorism gobbles resources we should use to solve far more dangerous planetary threats. read more »Real Peace In Sudan by Colin Thomas-Jensen, | June 19, 2006
The U.S. should lead the way on making the Darfur Peace Agreement more than a piece of paper. read more »The Guantánamo Peril by Aziz Huq, | June 19, 2006
What calling the Guantanamo suicides a "PR stunt" reveals about the Bush administration. read more »China's Power Grab by Martin Jacques, The Guardian | June 15, 2006
The China-United States relationship is set to define global politics. read more »Wall Street Doesn't Like This War by Ken Miller, | June 13, 2006
While some may profit from war, the instability it brings harms everyone. read more »Guantánamo's Ugly Truth by Zachary Katznelson, The Guardian | June 12, 2006
What drives a man to take his own life? The answer shames the Bush administration and its allies. read more »
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Obama Seeks Extra Funds for Wars, BBC News | April 10, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama has asked Congress for an extra $83.4 billion to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. In his official letter to the House, he said the request was his "last planned war supplemental [payment]". The supplementary money is needed to pay for the new Afghan strategy and the reduction of combat troops in Iraq. more »
'Cyberspies" Infiltrate Power Grid, BBC News | April 9, 2009
Computer hackers have embedded software in the United States' electricity grid and other infrastructure that could potentially disrupt service or damage equipment. The code in the power grid was discovered in 2006 or 2007. Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano would not confirm such a breach, but said that there has been no known damage caused by one. The U.S. more »
Pentagon Preps for Economic Warfare, Politico | April 9, 2009
The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis. The two-day event had all the earmarks of a regular war game. more »
A Help-Wanted Sign for Fraud Investigators , The New York Times | March 22, 2009
Suicides Linked to 'Stressed and Tired' Force, | March 19, 2009
An increase in the number of suicides among military personnel can be traced, in part, to a "stressed and tired force" made vulnerable by multiple deployments, a military leader said. "We must find ways to relieve some of this stress," said Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, vice chief of staff of the Army, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee. more »
Pentagon to Stop 'Stop Loss', CNN | March 18, 2009
The military will phase out its "stop loss" program, the contentious practice of holding troops beyond the end of their enlistments, for all but extraordinary situations, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced. Instead, the military will use incentives programs to encourage personnel to extend their service. more »
U.S. Moves to Replace Contractors in Iraq, The Washington Post | March 17, 2009
The decision not to renew Blackwater Worldwide's security contract in Iraq when it expires in early May has left the State Department scrambling to fill a protection gap for U.S. diplomats and civilian officials there. Two other U.S. more »
Obama to End Iraq Mission by 2010, CNN | February 27, 2009
President Obama will say in his speech at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq will end next year. "Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," Obama will say. Congressional officials said the president told congressional leaders of his plan. more »
Senate to Investigate CIA Under Bush, Los Angeles Times | February 27, 2009
The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under President George W. Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial operations in recent agency history. more »
Looted Iraq Museum Opens, The New York Times | February 24, 2009
Well over half the exhibition halls in Iraq’s National Museum are closed, darkened and in disrepair. And yet the museum, whose looting in 2003 became a symbol of the chaos that followed the American invasion, officially reopened. Thousands of works from its collection of antiquities and art — some of civilization’s earliest objects — remain lost. more »
