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Just finished reading Red Line, by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Joby Warrick. It was published in February 2021. Warrick tells the story of how, since the 1980s, the Assad regime in Syria built a massive chemical weapons...
by theaccidentalrabbi
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on Wed Sep 29, 2021 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Are these the times when even the Times promotes war?
Yesterday, 12/7/15, in ‘Obama Says of Terrorist Threat: 'We Will Overcome It,’ the NYT reported on Obama’s oval office speech.
You’d thi
by douglassmyth
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on Tue Dec 08, 2015 at 04:01 PM PST
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by Scott Anderson
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on Mon Dec 07, 2015 at 10:38 AM PST
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It's one thing for the United States to profess a desire for peace and prosperity for peoples around the globe, but it's a whole different matter when our consequent actions put the lie to our words ...
by Jerry Anderson
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on Sat Apr 18, 2015 at 11:12 AM PDT
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Our military used to think they were on football fields, on the ninth down… Now it's surgeons: battlefields are their operating rooms. They excise the cancer, i.e. the enemy.
But the world doesn'...
by douglassmyth
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on Thu Sep 25, 2014 at 05:23 PM PDT
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Our President has decided: given American foreign policy up to now, he couldn't have decided otherwise, because America Leads the Mideast…towards "order."
Oh, it could be worse. If McCain were ...
by douglassmyth
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on Thu Sep 11, 2014 at 09:36 AM PDT
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American interventions in the Mideast have been little short of disastrous: starting with the CIA coup in Iran in 1953, which led to the Islamic Revolution and the current Islamic state. Further, ...
by douglassmyth
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on Sun Sep 07, 2014 at 07:56 AM PDT
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First I thought it was my imagination. So I hit the "Replay" button on my remote. Sure enough, Luke "Ace" Russert referred to the Iraqi Sunnis as the "Sushis." Was he dreaming about lunch at that ...
by mojave mike
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on Thu Aug 14, 2014 at 07:13 AM PDT
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Iraq more and more appears to be a three-ring circus, where it is hard to separate out the clowns from the lion-tamer. You got the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. Baghdad politics is for the clowns. ...
by ForeignPolicy
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on Wed Aug 13, 2014 at 02:30 PM PDT
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I see virtually no commentary about the Gelb/Biden plan for Iraq, but there should be more. The current situation provides a controlled experiment of their plan, without getting much commentary on ...
by wildhypotheses
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on Fri Jan 10, 2014 at 06:26 PM PST
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1698 - Russia's Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.
1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II. House Republican immediately began efforts to repeal that decision.
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by agnostic
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on Thu Sep 05, 2013 at 09:08 AM PDT
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This is my attempt at a translation of this article about Saudi Arabia in the German ...
by lotlizard
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on Fri Mar 25, 2011 at 05:14 AM PDT
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But they’re no longer about Cleopatras nose.
If we look at the world from a distance, instead of a series of highly differentiated conflicts, we see one big conflict that pits haves against ...
by Deena Stryker
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on Tue Jul 06, 2010 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Amidst all the recent talk about Iran's nuclear program and Israel's intentions towards Iran something potentially far more important has been developing between two worlds, the Arab and the Persian,
by Shane Hensinger
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on Sun Aug 30, 2009 at 05:07 PM PDT
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You know, if John McCain and the rest of the GOP could manage to see past the end of their noses once in awhile, and not be so obsessed with putting profit over everything else -- including ...
by markthshark
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on Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 02:24 PM PDT
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It is about judgment stupid. NY Times/CBS News poll finds 45% say efforts to stabilize Iraq are going well but 6 in 10 still think the U.S. should have stayed out in ...
by Engine 08
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on Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM PDT
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The fact-challenged Kristol defaces Memorial ...
by sandyt2k
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on Mon May 26, 2008 at 12:18 PM PDT
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There are some items up on News Unfiltered that may interest the community.
Pelosi pushes for resolution in support of Tibet:
Speaker ...
by News Unfiltered
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on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 12:54 PM PDT
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The Village, via Cokie Roberts, gives their very serious assessment of Iraq on ABC's This Week:
by dday
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on Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 05:57 PM PDT
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As many of you have, I’ve become somewhat of a keen observer of the ongoing occupation in Iraq over the past 5 years. If your travails have even remotely resembled my own during the course ...
by markthshark
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on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 05:47 AM PDT
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