Tens of Thousands Rally in Wisconsin to Declare: "This Fight is NOT Over"
by Jon Nicols
on May 16, 2011
Protest fatigue? Not in Wisconsin. Three months after Governor Scott Walker proposed to strip state, county and municipal employees and public-school teachers of their collective bargaining rights, the governor's agenda remains stymied. Legal challenges,moves to recall Republican legislators who have sided with the governor and the fear on the part of legislative leaders of mass protests have prevented implementation.
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Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
by Michael Moore
on May 13, 2011
Michael Moore: If we really want to send bin Laden not just to his death, but also to his defeat, may I suggest that we reverse all of that right now. End the wars, bring the troops home, make the rich pay for this mess, and restore our privacy and due process rights that used to distinguish us from any other country. Right now, our democracy looks like Singapore and our economy has gone desperately Greek.
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Scores Die in Pakistan Bombings
by The Irish Times
on May 13, 2011
A twin bomb attack near Pakistan's northwestern city of Charsadda has killed 80 people, most of them police cadets, in the largest attack in the country since the killing of Osama bin Laden by the US.
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Obama Nears Key Decisions on Afghan Strategy
by Tom Hayden
on May 13, 2011
At stake politically is whether the president will choose to campaign through 2012 on a platform of ending two quagmires costing trillions of tax dollars and thousands of lives, or whether he will portray himself as staying the course in the βwar on terrorism,β building on the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Boehner's Unreality Check
by Ruth Marcus
on May 11, 2011
The news out of House Speaker John Boehner's speech to the New York Economic Club was his demand for "cuts of trillions, not just billions" before the debt ceiling can be raised. Not just broad deficit-reduction targets, the Ohio Republican insisted, but "actual cuts and program reforms."
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Video: Obama Outlines Afghan War Drawdown Plan
by PBS Newshour
on May 11, 2011
President Obama promised a significant drawdown of American troops. That was then. This is now.
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Military Draws Up Afghan Exit Plan
by Wall Street Journal | JULIAN E. BARNES AND ADAM ENTOUS
on May 11, 2011
U.S. military officers in Afghanistan have drawn up preliminary proposals to withdraw as many as 5,000 troops from the country in July and as many as 5,000 more by the year's end, the first phase of a U.S. pullout promised by President Barack Obama, officials say.
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The US Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland
by Robert Weissman
on May 10, 2011
It's a good rule of thumb: If the US Chamber of Commerce β the trade association for large corporations -- is whipped up about something, there's probably good reason for the public to strongly back whatever has sent the Chamber into fits.
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The Rocket's Red Glare
by Abby Zimet
on May 10, 2011
Here's a bizarre video of a U.S. soldier in full battle gear in Afghanistan dancing on his tank as rockets explode behind him. I'm not sure what to say about it except it somehow captures the surreal nature of this misbegotten, and possibly any other war, much as Michael Herr's psychedelic "Dispatches" captured the Vietnam War. It also brings to mind our national anthem. Which upon rereading is pretty intense in a blood-soaked sort of way.
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Calls Mount to Push U.S. Troop Presence in Iraq Past 2011
by David Elkins
on May 10, 2011
Amid high-level U.S. congressional delegations to evaluate developments in Iraq, a growing number of voices here, from both the Barack Obama administration and members of Congress, are concerned about a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country by December 2011 β a deadline set forth in the supposedly inviolable Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the U.S. and Iraqi governments back in 2008.
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