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Obama’s secret wars: How our shady counter-terrorism policies are more dangerous than terrorism

Obama’s secret wars: How our shady counter-terrorism policies are more dangerous than terrorism

Obama should be held accountable for vastly expanding the military establishment's worldwide license to kill. By FRED BRANFMAN Alternet Although President's Obama's partial Afghan troop withdrawal announcement has received more attention, his June 29 "National...

Bitten by History: From the Gulf to Gaza and Afghanistan, the Familiar Way Proves the Wrong Way

Bitten by History: From the Gulf to Gaza and Afghanistan, the Familiar Way Proves the Wrong Way

By TOM ENGELHARDT Posted by Bulatlat.com History, or the future (however you want to look at it), has a funny way of rearing up and biting leaders who think they know what they're doing. Take Barack Obama. Only weeks before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in...

What’s Really Behind Conservative Pundit George Will’s Call for Total Withdrawal From Afghanistan?

What’s Really Behind Conservative Pundit George Will’s Call for Total Withdrawal From Afghanistan?

By BYARD DUNCAN AlterNet International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) On Sept. 1, conservative columnist George Will published a seemingly out-of-nowhere, eye-popping op-ed for the Washington Post titled, "Time to Get out of Afghanistan." The piece, which called for "a...

Afghanistan for Dummies

Afghanistan for Dummies

By RAY MCGOVERN truthout International Posted by (Bulatlat.com) I'm going to ask for my money back. I've seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title. As in an early scene from the Vietnam version, U.S. military officials are...

Filipinos and Other Foreign Civilians Die, Uncompensated, for US Army in Iraq

Filipinos and Other Foreign Civilians Die, Uncompensated, for US Army in Iraq


Tens of thousands of civilian contract workers from poverty-stricken countries -- among them Filipino Rey Torres (left) -- were hired to support the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. In case of injury or death, they are supposed to be covered by workers' compensation insurance financed by American taxpayers. But the program has failed to deliver medical care and other benefits.

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