Listen to Ann Jones on Monday’s Scott Horton Show The Afghan War is officially winding down. American casualties, generally from towns and suburbs you’ve never heard of unless you were born there, are still coming in. Though far fewer American troops are in the field with Afghan forces, devastating “insider attacks” in which a soldier …
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The horrible carnage inflicted by the Somali Al-Shabab Islamist group on a Kenyan shopping mall should cause the U.S. government to reassess its foreign policy of profligate worldwide intervention. Like most other reporting on terrorist attacks, the American and, to a lesser extent, foreign media seemed to treat this incident a senseless attack by Islamist …
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The government "shutdown" isn’t really a shutdown: the National Security Agency (NSA) is still functioning at full throttle, spying on Americans and violating the Constitution with impunity. And I doubt those aid packages to the Syrian rebels are being delayed by even a minute: after all, a heart-eating cannibal can’t live on human blood alone. …
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At least 13 Iraqis were killed today, while another 24 were wounded. Also, the Iraqi government reported that 23 people were executed during the last week. Three of them were convicted on criminal charges, but the rest were accused of terrorism offences. Meanwhile, Antiwar.com compiled a total of 1,271 deaths for September.,
