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Constitutional law and Padilla

…September 11, 2001, to attend an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. At that time Al Qaeda and the Taliban were fighting against a remnant of the Northern Alliance containing…

What are we going to do now? Your choice.

…many of their own fellow citizens. Now it is happening again, in small but growing numbers. For now, about 1,500 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been identified by the…

Air Force increase as predicted

…kept secret of the Iraq-Afghanistan conflicts: an enormous intensification of US bombardments in these and other countries in the region, the increasing number of civilian casualties such a strategy entails,…

…cruise missiles pounded sites in Afghanistan and Sudan Thursday in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. officials say the six sites attacked…

…10,000 troops there, which is down from, obviously, major combat operations.” At the end of major combat operations in Afghanistan, we had 3,000 troops there (see Milbank or Somerby). Dean…

The Road to Calvary

…Invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. Invasion of Iraq, U.S. failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Christian Right comes to dominate southern politics, the continued rise of China, Facebook, Twitter, more startling…