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Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami hold a banner during an anti-American rally through the streets of Karachi May 6, 2011

How to lose friends in the Middle East

Tom Engelhardt
The real impact of the billions we're throwing at the region? Everyone hates the U.S.
President Barack Obama and former president Ronald Reagan

Obama gets to play Ronald Reagan

Joan Walsh
He praised him on the campaign trail. Now he's channeling his ability to compromise. Why won't the GOP go along?

The antiwar movement isn’t dead

Medea Benjamin
Todd Gitlin says peace protesting is done. Just because we're not marching doesn't mean we're not fighting
Captain America salutes reasonableness at the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2010

The politics of Captain America

Bob Calhoun
From Jon Stewart's rally to Tea Party gatherings, people don the superhero's costume. Whose side would he be on?
Sgt. Ray Lewis asks Betty White to be his date.

Marine asks out Betty White on YouTube

Drew Grant
Is this latest viral video a sign that the trend's gone stale ... or raising the bar for future applicants?
-- ADDS DAY AND DATE PHOTO WAS MADE -- In this photo provided by ISAF Regional Command (South), U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commanding general of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), salutes before administering the oath of re-affirmation and re-enlistment to 235 U.S. service members during a ceremony called "Operation Enduring Commitment - The Red, White and True," held at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday July 4, 2011. (AP Photo/ U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Haraz N. Ghanbari) (AP)

Petraeus hands over command in Afghanistan

Patrick Quinn
General transitions out after one year to assume top post at Central Intelligence Agency
A Yemeni boy sits inside a wreckage of a car while anti-government protestors, attend Friday prayers, during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abduallah Saleh, in Taiz, Yemen, Friday, July 15, 2011. Tribesmen killed a Yemeni army officer and two of his aides in an ambush Friday, and government shelling killed two civilians in a volatile southern area, officials said. (AP Photo/Anees Mahyoub) (AP)

The War on Terror, now starring Yemen and Somalia

Glenn Greenwald
The U.S. continues to spawn the very Terrorism problem it claims to combat, with the media helpfully in tow

Where have all the war protesters gone?

Todd Gitlin
The largest demonstrations ever have largely dissipated, even as we've launched new wars. Why a movement sputtered
A car burns outside Hotel Madina during a protest in support of Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, in the streets of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, June 10, 2011. Two boys were shot dead in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday during a second day of protests against a deal to extend the mandates of the country's president and parliament, residents said. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) (© Feisal Omar / Reuters)

The secret war in Somalia

Justin Elliott
Who the U.S. is fighting in the Horn of Africa, and why
Leon Panetta (AP/Paul J. RIchards)

Panetta’s profanity-laced, flub-filled trip

Natasha Lennard
The new Defense Secretary's maiden voyage abroad was a memorable one
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2010 file photo Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) (Associated Press)

Bomber targets service for Afghan leader’s brother

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan
Militant carries out suicide attack at funeral for Ahmed Wali Karzai in Kandahar

Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs

Glenn Greenwald
Compare the claims Wired magazine made about what it concealed to what it was actually hiding
Rupert Murdoch leaves his home in Mayfair, London, as British Prime Minister David Cameron joined demands for the media mogul to drop his BSkyB takeover bid in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal Wednesday July 13, 2011. Britain's House of Commons is poised to demand that Rupert Murdoch give up on his ambition of taking over a lucrative broadcaster while a phone hacking scandal rages around his British newspaper holdings. Cameron has put his party's weight behind an opposition motion up for a vote Wednesday which declares that bidding for full control of British Sky Broadcasting would not be in the national interest. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Finally, Rupert Murdoch gets his due

Gene Lyons
Don't be misled by the romantic aspects of this British scandal -- it is a moral tragedy

We’re stuck in Bush’s America

Tom Engelhardt
W. and Cheney have faded from public view, but Obama continues to carry out their destructive war on terror
FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 file photo Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second from right, is met by his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, left, in Argandab district of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, file) (Associated Press)

Afghan president’s half-brother assassinated

Mirwais Khan
Ahmad Wali Karzai, a leader in Kandahar and suspected drug trafficker, was killed by a bodyguard in his home

Welcome to the second age of decolonialization

Michael Lind
South Sudan's independence is a step toward borders in Africa, Asia and the Middle East that actually make sense
The unlikely couple: Mila Kunis and Sgt. Scott Moore.

Lucky Marine scores date with Mila Kunis

Drew Grant
How a viral video from Afghanistan netted Sgt. Scott Moore a "Friend with Benefits" (benefits not included)
President Barack Obama meets with congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House,Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Washington, to discuss the debt House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and House Speaker John Boehner. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Associated Press)

The catastrophic debt ceiling debate

James K. Galbraith
An archaic, bad-faith law is being pressed to its absurd extreme -- and we're all going to pay the price
An unarmed U.S. "Shadow" drone is launched in this undated photograph, released on January 5, 2011

Will drones change how we see war?

Barbara Ehrenreich
As machines take the place of humans on the battlefield, our relationship to combat is shifting
A Pakistani army soldier takes a position during a military operation against militants in Pakistan's Khurram tribal region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. A military operation in Kurram tribal region has been launched to clear the area of terrorists involved in various terrorist activities, including kidnapping and killing of locals, suicide attacks and blocking the road connecting Lower with upper Kurram, Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) (AP)

In Pakistan, many say aid “snub” dims U.S. sway

Sebastian Abbot
America withholds one-third of annual military assistance, as some warn of unintended consequences
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The great generational threat

Glenn Greenwald
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledges how puny is the Al Qaeda menace even as the War on Terror escalates
Bradley Manning

Why Bradley Manning is an American hero

Chase Madar
If the private did leak documents, his only "crime" is pushing the U.S. back to our tradition of transparency
FILE - In this May 24, 2011 file photo, media magnate Rupert Murdoch speaks during the e-G8 conference, gathering Internet and information technologies leaders and experts, in Paris. Britain's prime minister demanded inquiries into a burgeoning phone hacking scandal as allegations mounted Wednesday, July 6, 2011, that a tabloid eavesdropped on missing schoolgirls and the families of terrorist bombing victims as well as celebrities and royals. The scandal poses a threat to Murdoch's global media empire, and is causing a growing number of companies to pull their ads from the News of the World tabloid in disgust. In addition, calls are mounting for Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's top executive in Britain, to step down. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File) (AP)

UK veterans group severs ties with News of World

Robert Barr
Report reveals that News Corp. publication targeted relatives of military personnel killed in Iraq
This is an undated file photo shows then-al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan. After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that instantly iconic photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade: finding bin Laden. (AP Photo) (AP)

The man who hunted Osama bin Laden

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Meet the CIA analyst who tracked down the al-Qaida leader over the course of a decade
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