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The Yemeni people are unrelenting in their demands for democracy. Millions continue to stage rallies across their country in a display of will that is proving the most robust out of all the Arab revolutions. The Yemenis face great challenges, however, including the political vacillation of their country’s opposition, and the US’ military and strategic [...]

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¿Qué significa victoria?
Ahora que Washington se encuentra ante seis guerras, por lo menos (Iraq, Afganistán, Pakistán, Libia, Yemen, y de modo más general, la guerra global contra el terror), los estadounidenses viven en un nuevo mundo bélico. Aunque no se hayan alistado en las fuerzas armadas compuestas solo de voluntarios, en [...]

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Business as Usual on Steroids
In the seven weeks since the killing of Osama bin Laden, pundits and experts of many stripes have concluded that his death represents a marker of genuine significance in the story of America’s encounter with terrorism.  Peter Bergen, a bin Laden expert, was typically blunt the day after [...]

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El Directorado paquistaní de Inteligencia Inter-Servicios (ISI) merece una medalla de honor. Su tremenda operación de inteligencia, haya sido realizada directamente, subcontratada por la inteligencia militar o mediante elementos “delincuentes”, ha superado muchos crímenes semejantes.
Después de todo, un periodista paquistaní –no un extranjero– que se atreve a escribir que al-Qaida [...]

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Tras la muerte de Osama bien Laden, hay una oportunidad perfecta para que la administración Obama ponga fin a la “guerra contra el terror” que dura ya una década, se retire de Afganistán y cierre la prisión en la Bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba.
La justificación de ambas aberraciones, tanto de la invasión [...]

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Un signo más de los muchos que ilustran la profunda crisis moral de la “civilización occidental y cristiana” que Estados Unidos dice representar lo ofrece la noticia del asesinato de Osama Bin Laden. Más allá del rechazo que nos provocaba el personaje y sus métodos de lucha, la naturaleza de la [...]

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Editor’s note: Chris Hedges made these remarks about Osama bin Laden’s death at a Truthdig fundraising event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening.
I know that because of this announcement, that reportedly Osama bin Laden was killed, Bob [Scheer] wanted me to say a few words about it … about al-Qaida. I [...]

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President Obama’s shocking May Day announcement that Osama bin Laden has been killed and his body captured promises to usher in a new era of U.S. foreign and domestic policies alike. But what will this portend in actual practice? The implications for the future are potentially staggering in their full import, [...]

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Persistent waffling on dates for American troop withdrawals from Afghanistan has eroded any remaining patience with the Obama White House among peace activists and voters, a majority of whom favors a timeline for US troop withdrawals.
Nancy Youssef of McClatchy reports that the White House has decided to de-emphasize its pledge to begin withdrawing US [...]

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Right now, in what still remains largely a post-Cold War arms race of one, the U.S. is racing to produce ever more advanced drones to fight our wars, with few competitors in sight. In the process, we’re also obliterating classic ideas of national sovereignty, and of who can be killed by whom under what circumstances. In the process, we may not just be obliterating enemies, but creating them wherever our drones buzz overhead and our missiles strike. In the 1990s, we were said to be in an era of “globalization” which was widely hailed as good news. Now, the U.S. and its detached populace are pioneering a new era of killing that respects no boundaries, relies on the self-definitions of whoever owns the nearest drone, and establishes planetary free-fire zones. It’s a nasty combination, this globalization of death.

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