Bradley Manning Support Activist Raided by FBI

From the Bradley Manning Support Network: Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He...

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Better Bush Book Cover?

The Washington Post had a giant version of the cover of Bush's DECISION POINT in its Style section yesterday. Bush is trying to look solemn but I suspect he is going to a baseball game. I think this photo I took at a January 2007 antiwar DC demo would have provided a...

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Tuesday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 9th, 2010: The Washington Post: Senior Council on Foreign Relations fellow and former George W. Bush policy adviser Michael Gerson writes that after the midterm election, Obama may choose to...

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Monday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 8th, 2010: AFP: Michael Comte reports on Sen. Lindsay Graham’s (R-SC) recent comments on China and Iran. The remarks included a call for “bold” action to deal with Iran and a statement...

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Justin Raimondo on the Antiwar Movement (video)

On October 26, Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo spoke at the University of Michigan. His talk, "Whatever Happened to the Antiwar Movement?," is available below as a video and is also available in text format. Photos of the event are also available....

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Friday Iran Talking Points

from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for November 5th, 2010: Foreign Policy: Josh Rogin, writing on Foreign Policy’s The Cable blog, reports that Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arms of the conservative Heritage Foundation, is...

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Wartime Prosperity

Recently, the Washington Post’s David Broder resurrected the tired and long debunked case for wartime prosperity, claiming that “a showdown with the mullahs” in Iran would be a boon to the economy. As political economist and historian Robert Higgs has shown time...

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The Hug Lady

Bette Rose Bowers is the Hug Lady. She greets incoming soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan in airports. And what does she tell them? Things like: God bless you, we are proud of you, you are appreciated, thank you. She talks about the joy of having a father see his baby...

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