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The Christian Myth of Jesus's Birth
By the Rev. Howard BessDecember 5, 2009The Advent season is a fun time. For many Christians, it is the happiest season of the year. The joy comes from the anticipation: “Joy to the world, the Lord has come. Let earth receive her king.”Read on.
The Afghan Ambush
By Michael WinshipDecember 5, 2009The decision has been made. The months of meetings and briefings are over. Tuesday night, the President made it official: 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan.Read on.
'Up in the Air' and Down to Earth
By Lisa PeaseDecember 4, 2009If there’s one film I’d like President Obama to see this month, it’s the new film by Jason Reitman “Up in the Air.” Seeing all those people laid off in the course of the film made me want to run out and start a jobs program.Read on.
Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth
By Morgan StrongDecember 3, 2009 (Originally Posted April 12, 2009)The founding narrative of the modern State of Israel was born from the words of Moses in the Old Testament, that God granted the land of Israel to the Jewish people and that it was to be theirs for all time.Read on.
Obama Pleases the Neocons
By Robert ParryDecember 3, 2009President Barack Obama’s escalation of the Afghan War has upset many rank-and-file Democrats who had hoped for a more peaceful strategy, but Obama’s order to dispatch 30,000 more U.S. troops is being welcomed by neoconservatives, a group that has long favored U.S. military interventions in Muslim lands.Read on.
US 'No-Fly' List Keeps Growing
By Ivan ElandDecember 3, 2009With the holiday travel season upon us, the U.S. government’s terrorism watch list and no-fly list get ever more bizarre.Read on.
Afghanistan: 'Roach Motel' for Empires
By Zoltan GrossmanDecember 2, 2009In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama denied that “Afghanistan is another Vietnam” - -and in some senses he is correct. Vietnam was a far more unified state -- ethnically and politically -- than Afghanistan ever has been.Read on.
Colin Powell's My Lai Connection
By Robert Parry and Norman SolomonDecember 2, 2009On March 16, 1968, a bloodied unit of the Americal Division stormed into a hamlet known as My Lai 4. With military helicopters circling overhead, revenge-seeking American soldiers rousted Vietnamese civilians -- mostly old men, women and children -- from their thatched huts and herded them into the village's irrigation ditches.Read on.
Obama with Blood on His Hands
By Nicolas J S DaviesDecember 2, 2009President Barack Obama carefully avoided describing his decision to dispatch 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as an "escalation," but that is what he announced.Read on.
Larry McGovern on Obama's Escalation
By Larry McGovernDecember 1, 2009In one brief year, President Barack Obama has left a trail of shattered dreams, culminating in his option for more war in Afghanistan.Read on.
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