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Topic: global war on terror

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The Pentagon budget just keeps rising

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
The only existing model of the World Trade Center is displayed at the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum, Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in New York. The museum is a monument to how the Sept. 11 terror attacks shaped history, from its heart-wrenching artifacts to the underground space that houses them amid the remnants of the fallen twin towers' foundations. It also reflects the complexity of crafting a public understanding of the terrorist attacks and reconceiving ground zero. (AP Photo) (AP)

An foreign policy that could have helped

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Believe the autocrat

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 1, 2016 file photo, an Afghan Security policeman inspects the site of a suicide truck bombing, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

Vijay Prashad - Alternet
(Reuters/Allison Joyce)

Peter Van Buren - TomDispatch.com
Mahatma Gandhi, pictured in 1931; a member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa June 29, 2014. (AP/James A. Mills/Reuters)

Pacifism in an age of terror

Sean Illing

Rory Fanning - TomDispatch.com
Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

"I really fault myself"

Elias Isquith
James Risen

"I'm not going away"

Elias Isquith
Bowe Bergdahl, Rand Paul (AP/U.S. Army/Timothy D. Easley)

Paul knocked off high horse

Elias Isquith
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