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10 memorable scenes from Afghanistan

James Lee
Slide show: James Lee has captured extraordinary images from the war-torn country. Here are some favorites
FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. In a statement Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Manning and other supporters. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Why Bradley Manning is a patriot, not a criminal

Chase Madar
An opening statement for the defense of Pfc. Manning
FILE- In this file photo dated Friday Jan. 28, 2011, provided by Greenpeace, showing Daniel Domscheit-Berg during a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Domscheit-Berg is about to publish a book it is announced Monday Feb. 7, 2011, giving his insider account about secret spilling website WikiLeaks, entitled "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website". Daniel Domscheit-Berg is the former spokesman for WikiLeaks, but left the site dramatically in September 2010 because of a differences of opinion with founder Julian Assange. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Markus Forte, file) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Assange portrayed as “emperor” in insider book

Kirsten Grieshaber
Former Wikileaks insider describes his disillusionment, accuses Julian Assange of hypocrisy

At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Wrongful CIA renditions and other fatal mistakes haven't kept careerists from climbing up in the agency hierarchy
Anti-government protesters demonstrate in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning Tahrir Square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheeting. The arabic on the sign reads "The rage brings the light of freedom". (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Egyptian opposition defiant over VP’s warning

Maggie Michael
Suleiman's warning has protesters increasingly suspicious about his U.S.-backed reform efforts
Afghans at the scene of an explosion in downtown of Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Afghan police say a bomb has exploded in a crowded intersection in downtown Kabul but there were no reports that anyone was killed. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Hamid Karzai: NATO reconstruction bases must go

Adam Schreck
Afghan president says international development projects undermine his government's ability to gain greater control
Jimmy Carter

How Reaganism actually started with Carter

Michael Lind
Think Reagan was the first modern president to preach low taxes, free markets and morality?
Thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The protests, which saw tens of thousands of people massing daily in downtown Cairo for demonstrations that at times turned violent, have raised questions about the impact on the economy. More than 160,000 foreign tourists fled the country in a matter of days last week, in an exodus sure to hammer the vital tourism sector. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati) (AP)

Pox Americana

Tom Engelhardt
Why we shouldn't date the end of the Cold War to 1991 in Eastern Europe, but to 2011 in the Middle East
George W. Bush

Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest

Justin Elliott
Amnesty International and other groups asked Swiss authorities to investigate the former president for torture
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Assange is accused of sexual misconduct by two women he met during a visit to Stockholm last year and Swedish authorities want him extradited to face the allegations. A two-day hearing that begins Monday will decide Assange's legal fate. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (AP)

Assange lawyer: Risk of ‘denial of justice’

Jill Lawless
Wikileaks founder's attorney cries foul over Sweden's lack of transparency, extradition proceedings on rape charges
File - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, answers a reporter's question during a joint news conference with Rudolf Elmer, not seen, at the Frontline Club in London, in this Monday Jan. 17, 2011 file photo. Assange returns to a British court Monday Feb. 7 2011, to fight extradition to Sweden, where the WikiLeaks founder is wanted for questioning about alleged sex crimes. The 39-year-old Australian has denied the accusations, which his supporters claim are part of a CIA-led conspiracy against his secret-spilling organization. (AP Photo / Lefteris Pitarakis, file) (AP)

WikiLeaks’ Assange faces extradition

AP/Salon
The founder of WikiLeaks begins a hearing that could send him to Sweden for a sex crimes trial
Pakistani paramilitary soldiers survey the site of suicide bombing in Khar, the main town of Pakistan's Bajur tribal region, along theAfghan border, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest killing scores of people at an aid distribution center in northwestern Pakistan while army helicopter gunships and artillery killed a similar number of Islamic militants in neighboring tribal regions near the Afghan border, officials said. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan) (AP)

22,000 Pakistanis flee fighting near Afghan border

Habib Khan
Thousands flee as Pakistan army carries out operations against Islamic militants
A guard looks out from a tower in front of the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (Associated Press)

Guantanamo death highlights U.S. detention policy

Glenn Greenwald
A 48-year-old Afghan citizen dies at the camp after 9 years in a cage and no charges filed against him
Clockwise, from left: <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia.jpg'>King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_Abdullah_portrait.jpg'>King Abdullah II of Jordan</a>, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Teodoro_Obiang_detail,_1650FRP051.jpg'>Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea</a>, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Islam_Karimov_(2009).jpg'>Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan</a>, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gurbanguly_Berdimuhammedov.jpg'>Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan</a>

What other dictators does the U.S. support?

Justin Elliott
Aside from Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, here are the other most controversial leaders propped up by the U.S.
Senator Jim DeMint R-S.C., a leading supporter of a balanced budget amendment

The dangerous silliness of a balanced budget amendment

Andrew Leonard
Bad idea: Some GOPers want a government straitjacket in return for raising the debt ceiling
A U.S. soldier of Charlie Company 1-15 Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat team, 3rd Infantry Division, passes next to a wall painted with the Iraqi flag during a routine patrol in Salman Pak, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) (Associated Press)

Let’s end America’s “Middle East First” policy

Michael Lind
No more nation-building: Let's downsize the Pentagon and reassert our economic might
James Fremont and Sarah Palin

Actually, we already had a Palin White House campaign

Glenn W. LaFantasie
Her blunder-prone political misadventures carry echoes of those of John C. Fremont 150 years ago
Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama

The Palestine Papers: A fact-based play in one act

Sandy Tolan
"For six decades I've been pretending to be the honest broker -- but I'm here to tell you: It's all lies!"

Why can’t we watch Al Jazeera?

Julia Dahl
The English version of the Arab news channel is putting MSNBC, CNN and Fox to shame. Too bad no one can see it
*FILE* In this undated file photo providd by the Department of Defense, the F-117A Nighthawk Stealth fighter from the 49th Fighter Wing, 9th Fighter Squadron, from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. flies during a training mission over the New Mexico desert. Holloman Air Force Base will say farewell to the F-117 Nighthawk, which the nation is retiring from its arsenal after 27 years. The last F-117s scheduled to fly will leave Holloman on Monday, April 21, 2008, then stop in Palmdale, Calif., for another retirement ceremony before arriving at their final destination _ Tonopah Test Range Airfield in Nevada, where the fighter made its first flight in 1981. ( AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Andy Dunaway/HO) (Associated Press)

Why military spending remains untouchable

Andrew J. Bacevich
Despite extraordinary expenditures, it's clear that Americans just aren't getting much for their money
Yemeni students chant slogans calling on their president Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the government and follow Tunisian ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile during a protest in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

Yemen protests against government mark latest Middle East uprising

Ahmed Al-haj
The wave of dissent across North Africa has reached Yemen in the heart of the Middle East
Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields (Ret.)

“There is no plan”

Justin Elliott
That's how an inspector general describes the $11 billion effort to build facilities for the Afghan army
President Barack Obama is applauded by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, while delivering his State of the Union address (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)

Full text and video of Obama’s State of Union address

AP/Salon
Read or watch President Obama's second State of the Union address in its entirety
U.S. President Barack Obama during his first State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington

State of the Union 2011 liveblog

Alex Pareene
Our continuously updated analysis of America's new Sputnik moment
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