(Men gathered to protest drone strikes in Yemen in January: Times of London) There is one change that the United States could make in response to the terrorism threat that is never discussed. That is to consider the part U.S. policies have played in creating and sustaining it. I understand that we are not supposed […]

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The defeat of the Senate’s gun bill last week reflects the strength of the NRA and other pro-gun membership organizations. But it also reflects the potency of a less examined political force: the gun industry. Senators who scuttled the most ambitious gun regulation bill in decades weren’t just representing their constituents. They were also protecting […]

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(Jeremy Scahill’s new book Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, which reports on America’s covert operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, was made into a documentary that competed at the Sundance Film Festival in January.) Editor’s note: In today’s post from TomDispatch.com, Tom Engelhardt once against connects the dots. In focusing on […]

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(CNN’s John King reported last week that arrests had been made when none had. AP and Fox News followed suit.) By Friday night, when we all felt as though we were craning our necks around police cordons to get a better view of the action through our motley screens, it seemed as though the television […]

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(Boston was locked down Friday as police searched for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: AP via CSM) As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good English and seemed at home in his adopted country. While hundreds of police officers pursued the 19-year-old during a nationally-televised rampage across […]

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