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The bionic dog.

The Week in Uppers

Peter Finocchiaro
Inventors, veterans and bionic dogs are just a few of this week's feel-good stories
U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, speaks with other U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, and Lindsay Graham, R-SC, unseen, during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, July 3, 2011. Three U.S. Senators visiting Kabul on Sunday say they worry that President Barack Obama's planned withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by September 2012 could undermine Afghan morale, embolden the insurgency, and hamper efforts to defeat Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

McCain: Afghan drawdown ‘unnecessary risk’

Solomon Moore
John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham express concern about withdrawal plans
Afghans carrying anti Pakistan slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated 36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks. Pakistan's army has said no rounds were intentionally fired but that some may have accidentally fallen in Afghanistan in fighting with militants carrying out cross-border attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Border strife in Afghanistan shows wider tensions

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore
Afghan government officials have accused Pakistan of launching more than 761 rockets over the border since May
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Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded

Glenn Greenwald
The DOJ, with the exception of two likely murders, closes the book on all of the past decade's torture crimes
President Obama delivers an address on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Does Obama idolize the military?

Tom Engelhardt
The president's Afghanistan speech featured disturbingly fawning rhetoric about the armed forces
Central Bank Governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat, left.

Arrests of top bankers finally begin

Glenn Greenwald
In Afghanistan, but not the U.S.: who should teach whom about the rule of law?
Canadian and U.S. army soldiers attached to 1st Battalion, 22nd royal regiment rest during a patrol in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan June 26, 2011. Canada is winding up combat operations in Afghanistan and all combat troops will leave by the end of July, after nearly ten years fighting in Afghanistan. U.S. President Barack Obama also said on June 22 he would pull 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by year's end, followed by about 23,000 more by the end of next summer and a steady withdrawal of remaining troops after that. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS) (Reuters)

Cost of post-9/11 wars: $4 trillion

Justin Elliott
A group of researchers tackles the vexing question of the costs -- economic and human -- of America's recent wars
Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul

Afghan police: suicide bomber strikes Kabul hotel

Associated Press
There was no immediate word on casualties, and streets leading to the Intercontinental hotel are blocked

Cost of air conditioning in US wars: $20 billion

Justin Elliott
Or 40 times the annual federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Libyan chant slogans against Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration in the rebel-held capital Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, June 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

International judges order arrest of Gadhafi

Mike Corder
Libyan strongman charged with crimes against humanity
President Barack Obama visits with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, many of whom have just returned from Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Fort Drum, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama gave commanders leeway on Afghan pullout

Robert Burns
Military leaders will be able to use their discretion in deciding the manner in which troops are sent home

Why should holding office be for old people only?

John Seery
According to the Constitution, an 18-year-old can fight and die in Afghanistan, but can't run for Congress
An injured Afghan man, a victim of a blast lies in a hospital bed in Kunduz city in the northern province of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 25, 2011. A bicycle rigged with explosives ripped through a bazaar in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer. At least 24 people were wounded in the attack, according to an Interior Ministry statement. (AP Photo/Balal) (AP)

Car bomber kills 35 at Afghan clinic

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore
Militant in SUV claims dozens of lives, injures more in suicide attack
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, places his hand on his heart as a gesture of respect to the lawmakers, foreground, as some of them clench their fists while chanting slogans, at the start of their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 29, 2011. A picture of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs at rear. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader) EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES (AP)

Iran’s supreme leader accuses U.S. of terrorism

Ali Akbar Dareini
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rails against American military force in Middle East
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2001 file photo, Osama bin Laden, left, and his top lieutenant Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, right, are seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast. Al-Qaida has selected its longtime No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, to succeed Osama bin Laden following last month's U.S. commando raid that killed the terror leader, according to a statement posted Thursday, June 16, 2011 on a website affiliated with the network. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File) (AP)

Osama wanted new name for al-Qaida to repair image

Matt Apuzzo
In his final writings, the terrorist leader lamented that the West was winning the public relations fight
FILE - This April 1998 file photo shows Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Federal authorities dropped terrorism charges against bin Laden in court papers filed Friday, June 17, 2011, formally ending a case against the slain al-Qaida leader that began with hopes of seeing him brought to justice in a civilian court. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan approved a request made by federal prosecutors to dismiss the charges — a procedural move that's routine when defendants under indictment die. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Report: Bin Laden courier’s phone provides leads

Associated Press
The cellphone reveals contact between al-Qaida and a militant group called Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen
(© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Is Obama embracing unconstitutional powers?

David Sirota
A recent Hill article on Libya reveals the administration's disturbing disdain for checks on presidential authority
U.S. President Barack Obama (from 2nd L-R) smiles as he names U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey his pick to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy Admiral Sandy Winnefeld to be the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and General Ray Odierno to be the new Chief of Staff of the Army in an announcement in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, May 30, 2011. Also pictured is Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L). REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) (© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Our new language of perpetual war

Tom Engelhardt
From "victory" to "withdrawal," we look at nine words that have been redefined to justify our military actions
President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)

Mullen sees risk in quicker Afghanistan withdrawal

Ben Feller, Julie Pace
"Only the president, in the end, can really determine the acceptable level of risk we must take"
President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)

Primer: Reactions to Obama’s Afghanistan plan

Natasha Lennard
The president's announcement gets some approval abroad, but appeases neither war critics nor hawks at home
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Obama: 30,000-plus surge troops leaving Afghanistan

Ben Feller, Julie Pace
"The tide of war is receding" he declares in an address to Americans
President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

An Afghanistan peace dividend in our time?

Andrew Leonard
President Obama announces the withdrawal of 33,000 troops. Can we focus on the domestic economy now?

Our nickel-and-dime slide to libertarian hell

Andrew Leonard
Proof of societal decline: A $5 fee if you don't print out your own boarding pass
**FILE** In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee peers through his hands from inside his cell at the Camp Echo detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a ruling, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States. The men have been cleared for release from Guantanamo, but the United States will not send them home to China for fear they will be tortured. So they remain in prison while the U.S. figures out what to do with them. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (Associated Press)

The true definition of “Terrorist”

Glenn Greenwald
Two Iraqi nationals are so branded for fighting against U.S. troops in their country
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