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In the last 24 hours, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has launched missiles at not just one or two, but three of its neighbors! The attack against an Islamic State base in Syria does not seem to seem to have attracted any real protests, but yesterday’s...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 02:51 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi, JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 10:19 PM PST
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Please post your news items, thoughts, hopes, concerns, images, and greetings to one another in the comment thread. California Flex Alerts and elec emergencies may limit host responses — all friends are encouraged to co-host. This Week In The War...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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My Application To Host Afghan Family Has Been Accepted! Bittersweet, Because Of The Son Left Behind. I received word on Thursday from my attorney, who I served with overseas when neither of us had a wrinkle on our faces, that my request to host an Afghan family was finally accepted. A specific Afghan family. It took longer than expected because of the...
by Tevye
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on Sat Feb 19, 2022 at 03:10 PM PST
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Welcome to an all day open thread hosted by “Foreign Policy and International Events Group”. Drop by to share links and stories or for commentary. (or just play peekaboo and say look what I found). Who are we and what we are trying do → Launching A...
by Torilahure
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on Tue Mar 09, 2021 at 05:30 AM PST
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First thing first: a massive congratulations and best wishes to our next vice president, Kamala Harris! The rest of the election news is a mixed bag. A record 132 women will serve in Congress, including a number of “firsts.” For the first time in...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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on Sat Nov 07, 2020 at 05:00 PM PST
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Through word of mouth, Jonathan Miles learns of children in Syria, Iraq and Gaza who need Israeli medical care, and coordinates with doctors on both sides. Miles is the Director of Shevet ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Tue Nov 05, 2019 at 08:00 AM PST
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I can’t stand it. He’s ranting about his Great Accomplishment in Saving Countless Lives And Making Peace In The Middle East and Our Troops Are Safe And We Ended A Terrible War Between Turkey And The Kurds That Lasted Three Days Plus Hundreds of Years....
by Colorado Blue
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on Wed Oct 23, 2019 at 08:50 AM PDT
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This takes a lot of guts. Captain Alan Kennedy speaks out in a video op-ed — I hope you can see it, if not hopefully it will filter out through the pay wall. He says he joined the military to prevent genocide, not to enable it, and that he fears for...
by Colorado Blue
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on Fri Oct 18, 2019 at 05:01 PM PDT
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Hell has frozen over. David Brooks is not equivocating. This in itself is a minor miracle. But he’s a long time small-government conservative so for him to endorse Warren, albeit he’s a never Trumper, is a big deal. It shows, too, how bad our situation...
by Colorado Blue
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on Fri Oct 18, 2019 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Senator Romney stood up today in the Senate and made a fine and powerful speech deploring Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds in Syria. Here’s a video and full text from c-span. www.c-span.org/... He said in part: LET ME BRIEFLY RECOUNT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN...
by Colorado Blue
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on Thu Oct 17, 2019 at 06:06 PM PDT
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Once upon a time, I posted pro-Turkish comments here. Well before Erdogan’s mask slipped and his totalitarian nature was revealed. It’s still my hope that as a highly educated nation, young Turks my age will reclaim their democracy. That they will...
by OllieGarkey
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on Mon Oct 14, 2019 at 01:37 PM PDT
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Cadet Bonespurs managed to pull off a military feat that foreign adversaries have failed to for generations: he made US Troops hang their heads in shame. The story originally appeared in a series of conversations with The New York Times, where brave...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Oct 15, 2019 at 10:43 AM PDT
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TRUMP YOU TRAITOR. Now look. Turkish forces who launched multiple artillery rounds near a U.S. Special Operations outpost in northeastern Syria on Friday have known for months that Americans were there, according to four current and former U.S....
by Colorado Blue
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on Sat Oct 12, 2019 at 03:30 PM PDT
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Originally published: 1/16/2009 I’m standing by this one. When the Twin Towers fell, the citizens of the United States of America felt a distinct camaraderie. The flag—the national garment—that had been tattered and torn in its decent from the top of...
by epjmcginley
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on Thu Oct 10, 2019 at 04:00 PM PDT
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It's NICOLE SANDLER back with you again today, guest hosting the BradCast. The good news is that Brad and Desi will return on Monday, so you'll just have to deal with me for one more day. As has been the case the entire time Brad's been gone, the news...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Oct 10, 2019 at 02:56 PM PDT
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No, not your Beautiful Wall, of which not a single inch has been built. Not your quest to deny medical care to millions or airports to Muslims or a modicum of respect to your own minions. No, you have assumed a mantle so grand, outrageous and heinous...
by Crashing Vor
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on Wed Oct 09, 2019 at 04:43 PM PDT
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The Republican Party owns Donald Trump. Every Republican who has done nothing to stop him is fully complicit, and that includes every Republican member of the Senate. That also includes the ...
by Laurence Lewis
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on Sun Oct 13, 2019 at 08:40 AM PDT
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It's your friendly Guest Host NICOLE SANDLER, again filling in for Brad and Desi on the BradCast, for a show that deals with Donald Trump and the administration, Congress and its role in trying to perform oversight, and the Supreme Court, now back in...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Oct 08, 2019 at 04:42 PM PDT
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Monday began with an attempt by Individual-1 to draw attention from Ukraine by allowing Turkey to intensify military operations against the Kurds. This is why Trump didn’t play golf Sunday, because of his “great and unmatched wisdom” needed to...
by annieli
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on Mon Oct 07, 2019 at 09:04 PM PDT
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