Issues / Terrorism

  • It's Time to Delist Cuba

    Commentary

    By Arturo Lopez-Levy, May 7, 2013

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    Come off it--Cuba is not a 'state sponsor of terrorism.'

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  • The Great Afghan Corruption Scam

    Commentary

    By Dilip Hiro, April 2, 2013

    The U.S. flooded Afghanistan with military and aid funds, while expediently skipping any process of oversight, and so turned Operation Enduring Freedom into Operation Enduring Corruption.

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  • What Do They Do?

    Commentary / Fiesta Department

    By E. Ethelbert Miller, March 21, 2013

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    Would you recognize a torturer if you saw one?

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  • Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later

    Commentary

    By Phyllis Bennis and Co-signatories, March 19, 2013

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    It didn't take long for the world to recognize that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq constituted a "dumb war." But dumb wasn't the half of it.

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  • Intrigue Surrounds U.S. Arrest of Iran-based Bin Laden Son-in-Law

    Commentary

    By Jim Lobe and Jasmin Ramsey, March 12, 2013

    While Abu Ghaith's trial venue provided the major source of debate on his fate in the U.S., foreign policy experts expressed more interest in how he came into U.S. hands.

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  • Sequestering American Exceptionalism

    Commentary

    By Roger Peace, February 27, 2013

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    The "American Century" is most certainly coming to an end. The goal should be a smooth transition to a more cooperative world order.

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  • The Latin American Exception

    Commentary

    By Greg Grandin, February 19, 2013

    In one region of the world - in this century at least - the sun never rose on US-choreographed torture.

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