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Musharraf’s False Dichotomy

Pakistan's autocratic president, Pervez Musharraf, has been in power for the past eight years. In November 2007, he… more

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Kiriakou and the Kite Runner

The CIA agent who just admitted to waterboarding a high-ranking al Qaeda operative has had an interesting retirement.

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Anthropologists on the Front Lines

The Pentagon's new program to embed anthropologists with combat brigades raises many concerns

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Wingnut Awareness Week

Neocons beat the war drum on college campuses

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Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

Harman doesn't believe homegrown terrorism is a major threat to U.S. security today, but that it is important to learn from experiences in other countries like Britain and Canada, where citizens have been inspired to commit terrorism at home by Islamic propagandists reaching out over the Internet

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Perverse Justice

Jose Padilla’s conviction raises questions about whether detainees who undergo extreme isolation can be given fair trials

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The Guantánamo Hunger Strike

Fasting prisoners force-fed twice a day as 30-inch plastic tubes are forced into their esophaguses

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Reading Harry Potter in Guantánamo

The prisoners at Guantánamo Bay--or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it--have had… more

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For Israel’s Sake

The more we examine the disaster that is the Bush administration's Middle East policy, the more apparent becomes… more

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Love the Warrior, Hate the War

Why progressives have more in common with the military than they think

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I Hate to Say We Told You So, But

Now that the Bush administration has sustained massive, serial repudiations of its tragic folly in Iraq--from the Iraq… more

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Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII

Scare-tactic allusions to war allow Bush to push an extremist agenda.

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Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.

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The Neocons Lexicon

Republican term "Islamofacism" conflates the war on terro as a battle between the Enlightenment and Theocracy.

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9/11 Refracted

Post-9/11 reporting has been full of commercialization, ideology and manipulation, not unbiased reporting.

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The Good War on Terror

How the Greatest Generation helped pave the road to Baghdad

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The Persecution of the American Taliban?

John Walker Lindh was misunderstood and mislabeled as an "American Taliban."

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Europe Turns a Blind Eye to the CIA

EU governments are ignoring the CIA's transportation of terror suspects to torture sitesWhy are EU governments ignoring the CIA's transport terror suspects to torture sites?

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The Senselessness of Guantnamo

Chicago Lawyer Joseph Marguiles' Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon & Schuster) is about as convincing… more

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Irans Powerless President

Kaveh Ehsani speaks about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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