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Murtaza Hussain

Murtaza Hussain writes on foreign policy and civil liberties for Al Jazeera and Prism Magazine. Follow on Twitter at @mazmhussain.

John Yoo (AP/Susan Walsh)

John Yoo’s despicable return: We must stop giving war criminals a platform

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(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Read this woman’s personal no-fly list hell

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Malala Yousafzai, Sam Harris (Reuters/Hoda Emam/AP/Sara Allen)

Sam Harris slurs Malala: Famed atheist wrongly co-opts teenager’s views

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Jeffrey Goldberg (Twitter)

Jeffrey Goldberg’s Qatari myopia

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Ahmed Shihadeh (enab-baladi.com)

My colleague died for peace

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Paul Bremer reacts after a shoe is thrown at him at an event organized by the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society in London.

Paul Bremer still believes Iraq is better off

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Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP/Ibrahim Alaguri)

Blame anarchy for Benghazi

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London in February. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Britain’s Assange overreach

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(Reuters)

Is drone war moral?

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Chicago police arrest a gang member on an outstanding warrant on June 9. (AP/Robert Ray)

Chicago: Aurora all the time

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Iraqi citizens pull down a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in April, 2003.

Iraq foots the bill for its own destruction

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Pamela Geller

The moral supporters of terrorism

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