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Led by the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) the U.S. is stepping up its war in Somalia, The Nation magazine reports.
Today, 11 million people in and around Somalia are currently at risk of starvation amidst the worst drought to hit the nation in a generation. Forty years ago, on the first day of August, George Harrison and Friends and fans got together for two shows at Madison Square Garden, New York City and blew the [...]
Read it and weep, Sophocles. The war in Vietnam is the American tragedy of our lifetimes. The saddest part of the story is that it’s not over yet. Long after the last bombs dropped and the shooting stopped, the war we lost has profoundly influenced American foreign policy. This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and [...]
As Mother’s Day approaches, my stomach begins to ache. It’s a familiar, if old pain, tucked away in my soul, born of the loss of my son, Dan, killed at the age of 22 while working as Reuters photojournalist in Somalia more than 17 years ago. It seems a long time for that hurt to [...]
Osama Bin Laden once said that he worshiped death, while his enemies worshiped life. Yet al Qaeda’s original Dr. Evil and Global Terror’s bête noir did not go out in a blaze of glory at a time of his own choosing, but rather was summarily dispatched by U.S. Navy Seals in his own bedroom. In [...]
As Mother’s Day approaches, my stomach begins to ache. It’s a familiar, if old pain, tucked away in my soul, born of the loss of my son, Dan, killed at the age of 22 while working as Reuters photojournalist in Somalia more than 17 years ago. It seems a long time for that hurt to [...]
Scramble the film backwards. Rewind. Go back to the day 10 years ago when the air here in Manhattan was thick with ash and Osama bin Laden was gloating. There were two options for the United States government — to pick up a scalpel, or to pick up a blowtorch. With the scalpel, you go [...]
Crossposted with TomDispatch.com Back in the 1960s, Senator George Aiken of Vermont offered two American presidents a plan for dealing with the Vietnam War: declare victory and go home. Roundly ignored at the time, it’s a plan worth considering again today for a war in Afghanistan and Pakistan now in its tenth year. As everybody [...]
By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis Death and taxes are the only certainties in life. And these days, they go hand in hand. While our fiscal woes have led Congress to slash food aid this year to the world’s poor — rest assured, fellow Americans — the U.S. government will keep using your tax dollars [...]
