Google News has lately taken to labeling Antiwar.com’s news articles, including this column, as "satire." To take one particularly unfortunate example, an article by Fred Reed on the furor over the photo of Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard’s tragic death in Afghanistan was so classified on the Google search engine. This, I believe, is proof positive …
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Gordon Prather: UN smacks down War Party again
Jeff Huber on those wily Afghan guerrillas
A special report by Robert D. Kaplan
Don’t let Dick off the hook, says Jeff Huber
Ignore the neocons’ artifice, says Muhammad Sahimi
Empire-lite leaves Obama open to attacks, argues Alan Bock
Yes! exclaims Ivan Eland
In what appears increasingly to be an orchestrated campaign, right-wing Republicans and Israel-centered neoconservatives are pulling out all the stops in depicting President Barack Obama as "weak" on national security and promoting democracy abroad. While they have been pressing that charge on Obama since even before he defeated Sen. John McCain in last November’s elections, …
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Much has been said and written in recent days about the way the demonstrators in Tehran have been utilizing new kinds of "social media" to challenge the Iranian theocratic regime. Protesters blog, post to Facebook, and most intriguingly, coordinate their protests on Twitter, the messaging service. On Twitter, young Iranians and their supporters post reports …
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