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President Obama, Commute Manning’s Sentence to Time Served 23 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
From our partners at Just Foreign Policy On August 21, U.S. citizen Bradley Manning – now known as Chelsea Manning -was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information to the publi...
Time for the “zero option” in Afghanistan? 10 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
From our partners at Peace Action West Reality seems to be setting in at the White House, with President Obama reportedly considering removing all troops from Afghanistan in 2014 rather than leavi...
The House Finally Voted To End The War In Afghanistan 16 Jun 2013 | 04:20 am
From our partners at DownWithTyranny! It’s been a dozen years but on Thursday the House finally voted to end the war in Afghanistan. By backing an amendment to a military spending bill, all but 9 Dem...
NDAA roundup: Afghanistan victory and budget ignominy 15 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
From our partners at Peace Action West Last night, we saw years of committed organizing pay off, with the House of Representatives voting 305-121 supporting accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan. Th...
What we’re watching in this year’s NDAA 13 Jun 2013 | 09:20 pm
From our partners at Peace Action West UPDATE: The amendments crossed out below were not allowed to come to the floor for a vote. The House will start voting tomorrow on the National Defense Authoriza...
Should We Be Taking This Syrias? 23 May 2013 | 08:40 pm
From our partners at The Agonist It may, in fact, not be the Assad government using chemical weapons. It may actually be the rebels: Carla del Ponte told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicio...
We’re Still In Afghanistan To Save The Ladies? 12 May 2013 | 05:20 am
From our partners at DownWithTyranny! And what happens if we stay? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the same week the CIA reassured Hamid Karzai that nothing– including the Sequester here– woul...
Do The Millions Of Dollars In Bribes To Afghan Warlords Get Sequestered Too? 2 May 2013 | 06:00 am
From our partners at DownWithTyranny! What do you know… the same cheerleaders for the disastrous war in Iraq, the endless, draining occupation of Afghanistan and the intervention in Libya are the ver...
Obama’s Afghanistan announcement 15 Feb 2013 | 01:40 pm
From our partners at Peace Action West Tuesday night, President Obama announced that another 34,000 troops will come home from Afghanistan by this time next year. This is wonderful news for those 34,0...
There’s Something INHERENTLY Wrong With U.S. Drone Policy– And Congress Isn’t Doing Anything About It 12 Feb 2013 | 08:20 am
From our partners at DownWithTyranny! Saturday we looked at the other nightmare inherent in drone warfare: so-called collateral damage or, less elegantly, technologically indiscriminately slaughterin...
