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10 stories more important than Weinergate

David Sirota
From record greenhouse gas emissions to the failed War on Drugs, here are the real scandals the media ignored
Troops of Pakistan army seen at Shaltalo in the Upper Dir region of Pakistan on Monday, June 6, 2011. Pakistani security forces had battles with militants in the Pakistani border town of Shaltalo along the Afghanistan border. Pakistani helicopters and artillery forced back militants who crossed over from Afghanistan and triggered battles that have killed many people, an official said. (AP Photo/Dilawar Jan) (AP)

Pakistan army chief says US aid should be diverted

Associated Press
General said U.S. aid meant for the military's fight against Islamist militants should go to ordinary people
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, looks at NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen during a round table meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, June 9, 2011. NATO defense ministers shift their focus from Libya to Afghanistan during talks on Thursday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) (AP)

Gates: No U.S. “rush for the exits” in Afghanistan

Associated Press
Defense secretary spoke after NATO secretary-general said July troop withdrawals will not affect Afghan security
Unidentified US soldiers from L Troop, 4/2SCR, rest, before a foot patrol in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (Associated Press)

The Afghan war, now through 2017

Justin Elliott
A general suggests that an "enduring commitment" will go on for many more years
FILE - This April 1998 file photo shows exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions he hoped would rattle the world's economy and send oil prices skyrocketing, the U.S. said Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP File Photo) (AP)

Al-Qaida’s No. 2 issues eulogy for bin Laden

Associated Press
Al-Zawahri appeared in a white Arab robe and turban, a Kalashnikov at his side, in a 28-minute video
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is seen through camouflage netting as he greets US. Army soldiers at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Shank in Logar Province, Afghanistan, Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool) (AP)

U.S.-led nation-building could leave Afghanistan in a depression

Natasha Lennard
A Senate report released Wednesday says the highly expensive aid program does not help long-term development
A smoke and dust cloud from an explosions rises into the sky after a NATO airstrike in Tripoli, Libya Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight to the death in a defiant speech Tuesday after NATO military craft unleashed a ferocious series of daytime airstrikes on Tripoli. (AP Photo/Abdel Meguid al-Fergany) (AP)

NATO to push for more involvement in Libya strikes

Mike Corder
Mission escalates as ten explosions shake Tripoli early Wednesday
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Is a bipartisan coalition emerging to oppose the National Security State?

Glenn Greenwald
What is the significance of GOP opposition to the Patriot Act and the wars in Libya and Afghanistan?

Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies

Barry Schweid
The foreign-services veteran, 80, held the top post at the State Department under George H.W. Bush
A Pakistan army helicopter take off as troops wait for clearance to use heavy artillery towards alleged militants hideouts in the mountain ranges in Mamad Gat, in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region along the Afghan border, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. A top Pakistani army commander said that the military has no imminent plans to launch an offensive in the North Waziristan tribal region, home to numerous militants who focus on attacking U.S. and NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

Al-Qaida militant killed in US strike in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mehsud
The senior operative, Ilyas Kashmiri, was a possible successor to bin Laden

The Gitmo no one talks about

Justin Elliott
Not only has Obama not closed Guantanamo, he has also vastly expanded a similar prison in Afghanistan

Spies hack al-Qaida’s Inspire magazine

Paisley Dodds
British intelligence agents replace bombmaking instructions with cupcake recipe
Anwar al-Awlaki

Criminalizing free speech

Glenn Greenwald
The administration now justifies punishing or even killing citizens, like Anwar al-Awlaki, because of their ideas
FILE- In this April 1998 file photo, exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April 1998 picture in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's Yemeni wife once dismissed the terror leader's offer to return to the safety of her home, saying she wanted to stay and be "martyred" alongside her husband, her family says. In interviews with The Associated Press, Amal al-Sada's relatives paint a portrait of an ambitious, resolute and conservative young woman told friends and family she hoped to "go down in history" after her marriage to the world's most wanted man. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

How compromising is Osama’s “paper trail”?

Emma Mustich
As the U.S. continues to analyze intelligence from Abbottabad, older documents remind us: We may be in for details
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angered by civilian casualties, Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against strikes that the military alliance says are key to its war on Taliban insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Afghanistan “sovereignty”

Glenn Greenwald
The Afghan President's decision to bar NATO air attacks on homes is deemed "merely symbolic"
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks to family members of fallen service members at a Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors seminar, Friday, May 27, 2011, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Obama chooses Dempsey to be next Joint Chiefs head

Robert Burns
Accomplished Iraq war veteran set to succeed Navy Adm. Mike Mullen this autumn, pending Senate confirmation
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Establishment thought and the War on Terror

Glenn Greenwald
The bin Laden killing is used to justify an acceleration, rather than winding down, of the War on Terror
An Afghan policemen stands guard as an aerial view of Kabul city is seen from atop a hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi) (AP)

NATO troops among those killed in Afghan attack

Rahim Faiez, Jon Gambrell
Suicide bomber disguised as police officer sets off deadly blast in northern Afghanistan
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a news conference at U. S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Friday, May 27, 2011. Clinton said that relations between the United States and Pakistan had reached a turning point after the killing of Osama bin Laden and Islamabad must make "decisive steps" in the days ahead to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (AP)

Clinton: Bin Laden raid a watershed for Pakistan

Anne Gearan, Nahal Toosi
"We have reached a turning point," Clinton says after meeting with senior Pakistani officials
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a news conference at U. S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Friday, May 27, 2011. Clinton said that relations between the United States and Pakistan had reached a turning point after the killing of Osama bin Laden and Islamabad must make "decisive steps" in the days ahead to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (AP)

Clinton: Pakistan needs to take ‘decisive steps’

Anne Gearan, Nahal Toosi
The secretary of state also said any peace deal in Afghanistan would not succeed unless Pakistan was involved

House backs tribunals only for terror suspects

Donna Cassata
The bill limits President Barack Obama's authority handling detainees

The Army gives you superpowers!

David Sirota
The Pentagon has long used movies as a recruiting tool but its new X-Men campaign is dangerously hypocritical
A man walks in front of the Deauville Congress Center, in Deauville, western France on Monday, May 23, 2011 where world leaders of the G8 will meet for a summit May 26 and May 27. World leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations will put aside the squabbling over deficits and austerity that has marked their recent gatherings and seek to marshall their combined economic might behind the grass-roots democracy movements that have swept North Africa and the Middle East since their last meeting a year ago. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Arab uprisings top agenda as Obama attends G-8

Julie Pace
Two days of meetings in France are getting under way today
Then Republican presidential hopeful, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, speaking at a campaign rally in Clearwater, Fla., Monday, Jan. 28, 2008.

Does Rudy Giuliani know how to take a hint?

Ben Adler
He wants us to believe he might jump in the presidential race -- four years after his epically disastrous campaign
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