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New York Times journalists to be released by Libyan forces

Associated Press
Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, announced the release in an ABC News interview with Christiane Amanpour
President Barack Obama makes a statement about Japan following last week's earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear concerns, Thursday, March 17, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Obama on presidential war-making powers

Glenn Greenwald
As candidate, he insisted that presidents lack the power to enter conflicts without approval. What will he do now?
A man is screened for radiation exposure at a shelter after being evacuated from areas around the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged by last week's major earthquake and following tsunami, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Fukushima city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) (AP)

Journalistic irony

Glenn Greenwald
NYT: The "cozy relationship" between Japanese reporters and government officials leads to suppression of facts
Bill Kristol

Kristol dismisses Barbour as a surrender monkey

Justin Elliott
The neocon Weekly Standard editor lashes out at the Mississippi governor over his skepticism of the Afghan war
An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Taking the “war” out of air war

Tom Engelhardt
What US air power is actually doing in the War on Terror

Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy

Glenn Greenwald
A former CIA operative perfectly expresses the mindset driving the U.S. government's role in the world

4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya

Associated Press
Two reporters and two photographers reportedly swept up by government forces, incommunicado since Tuesday morning

New scientific terror baby study proves seriousness of terror baby menace

Alex Pareene
Thousands of future jihadists are born in the U.S. to students and tourists every year, according to a guy
FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2011 file photo, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Cut spending, no matter what. Don’t let the government borrow any more. Shut it down if you have to. The cast of potential White House contenders is telling Congress to be tough, cut spending and, if necessary, close the doors to federal agencies if the Republicans don’t secure enough concessions from Democrats. However dangerous such brinksmanship is for lawmakers, and the country, it offers White House hopefuls the opportunity to criticize Washington spending while portraying themselves as the commonsense alternatives. (AP Photo/Steve Pope, File) (AP)

Haley Barbour: Anti-war candidate?

Justin Elliott
The Mississippi governor expresses skepticism about the war in Afghanistan
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2011, file photo, Pakistani security officials escort Raymond Allen Davis, center, to a local court in Lahore, Pakistan. President Barack Obama pledged nearly two years ago to fix the broken system of awarding and managing federal contracts. But a new report paints a grim picture of the government’s reliance on the private sector for support in war zones. U.S. intelligence agencies also employ contractors. Davis was working as a CIA security contractor in Pakistan when he shot and killed two armed men last month in the eastern city of Lahore. (AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed, File) (AP)

”Blood money” frees CIA contractor in Pakistan

Babar Dogar
Raymond Davis pardoned by families of two slain Pakistanis in exchange for compensation
President Barack Obama speaks at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo) (AP)

Various matters: Afghanistan, Libya and Manning

Glenn Greenwald
In the news: A liberal consensus arises on Obama's detention defense, while war lessons seem never to be learned
Concussed Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Randolph, Massachusetts from the 1st Battalion 8th Marines Alpha Company rests in a compound providing cover after a rocket propelled grenade exploded near his position during a battle against Taliban insurgents in the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, November 1, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT) (© Finbarr O'reilly / Reuters)

Poll: Support for Afghan war plummets

Justin Elliott
But the bipartisan Washington consensus in support of the war appears unmoved
Phillip Crowley, Bradley Manning and Barack Obama

The clarifying Manning/Crowley controversy

Glenn Greenwald
Criticism from the left is particularly harsh in the wake of this growing scandal

If not a no-fly zone, then what?

Adam Clark Estes
NATO allies agree they are unprepared to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
President Barack Obama returns a Marine honor guard salute as he steps off Marine One upon returning to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, after traveling to education and fundraising events in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

The embarrassments of empire

David Bromwich
Washington wonders what to say about Arab freedom
A still from "Battle: Los Angeles"

“Battle: Los Angeles”: Bizarre fantasy of imperial decline

Andrew O'Hehir
Is this ludicrous alien invasion film an attempt to make us feel better about the war in Afghanistan?
Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, speaks with reporters following a weekly Republican policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. He is joined at right by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and at left by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Senate rejects rival GOP, Democratic budgets

Andrew Taylor
Move meant to show partisans on both sides of the aisle that budget compromise is necessary
This video image taken from Libyan state television broadcast on Wednesday March 9, 2011 shows Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi addressing supporters in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Libyan state television via APTN) LIBYA OUT, TV OUT (AP)

Libya official flies to Egypt with Gadhafi message

Maggie Michael, Paul Schemm
Libyan officer lands in Cairo with message for Egypt's military leadership
Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who handed control of the country to the military, at night in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

The disappearance of the nightmare Arab

James Carroll
How a revolution of hope is changing the way Americans look at Islam
An anti-Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi protester prays as he holds the old Libyan flag, during the Friday prayer at the court square, in Benghazi, eastern Libya, Friday March 4, 2011. Fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi set up checkpoints in Tripoli, searching cars, ahead of planned anti-government protests Friday, raising fears of new bloodshed in the Libyan capital where a heavy crackdown the past week has spread fear among residents. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

The neocons are trying to talk us into war — again

Michael Lind
A no-fly zone over Libya would be a gateway drug that leads to all-out American military invasion and occupation
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

Petraeus, Gates caught joking about Libya

Peter Finocchiaro
"You gonna launch some attacks on Libya or something?"
An anti-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi rebel, holds his anti-aircraft missile as he looks to the sky, in the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 6, 2011. Thousands of Moammar Gadhafi's supporters poured into the streets of Tripoli on Sunday, waving flags and firing their guns in the air in the Libyan leader's main stronghold. Earlier, the city woke to the crackle of heavy machine-gun fire that rattled the capital before dawn.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Against Libya’s rebels, Gadhafi controls the skies

Ryan Lucas, Paul Schemm
As the U.N. scrambles on a no-fly zone resolution, the loyalist forces launch air attacks on rebels
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

What our Secretaries of Defense keep getting wrong

Tom Engelhardt
Gates still doesn't understand the real mistake we made in Afghanistan and Iraq: sending troops in at all
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, gestures towards journalists during joint press conference with Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic, not in picture, at The Presidential Palace in Kabul , Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb, 19, 2011. Afghanistan's president says any decision on a permanent U.S. military presence in the country must be made by Afghans and take into account the concerns of neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

Afghan president rejects U.S. apology over killings

Patrick Quinn
Karzai says civilian casualties are no longer an acceptable consequence of U.S. occupation
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