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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Resetting common sense

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TRADE WINDS Did Obama Just Reset the Entire Western Hemisphere? For Five Decades, the U.S. Has Obsessed Over a Small Caribbean Island a...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The deaths of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri were a serious blow to Isis, but the roles they had vacated were quickly filled by the alumni of Camp Bucca – whose upper echelons had begun preparing for this moment since their time behind the wire of their jail in southern Iraq. “For us it was an academy,” Abu Ahmed said, “but for them” – the senior leaders – “it was a management school. There wasn’t a void at all, because so many people had been mentored in prison.

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Isis: the inside story One of the Islamic State’s senior commanders reveals exclusive details of the terror group’s origins inside an Ira...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

The U.S. overthrew 41 governments in Latin America between 1898 and 1994 - The road to Baghdad, in other words, ran through Panama City. It was George H.W. Bush’s invasion of that small, poor country 25 years ago that inaugurated the age of preemptive unilateralism, using “democracy” and “freedom” as both justifications for war and a branding opportunity.

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How the Iraq Wars began with the Invasion of Panama By  contributors   |   Dec. 22, 2014   | Printer Friendly By Greg ...
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