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    Christianity Today on torture
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    by enbar  8-18-2008   
     David Gushee for the evangelical Christian magazine Christianity Today on five theological grounds for the unequivocal and universal condemnation of torture by Christians, and why, from a Christian perspective, no exceptional circumstances can ever justify the use of torture. From February 2006.
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    Nicholas Kristof calls for a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation commission
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    by enbar  7-6-2008    1
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    Thomas Merton on "sanity" and Christianity in the modern world
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    by enbar  2-23-2008   
     Merton's thoughts on the finding that Eichmann was legally "sane": "sanity" is overrated in a world where mass destruction is considered an acceptable way of waging war. Given the modern situation, no Christian should aspire to sanity or realism.
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    Frank Rich: Americans need to wake up & pay attention
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    by enbar  10-14-2007   
     Rich argues that the longer the misguided Bush policies remain in effect -- the disastrous Iraq "surge," torturing detainees, retrograde legal and fiscal measures -- the more morally culpable the U.S. public becomes.
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    Collection of Antifacist Posters from the Spanish Civil War
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    by haraya  8-11-2007    6
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    Bradley Burstyn, Haaretz: What 1967 did to Judaism
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    by enbar  6-16-2007   
     Bradley Burstyn writes in Haaretz last week that 1967, in convincing rabbis that they could be generals and putting them in a position of providing spiritual sustenance to an occupying army, effectively destroyed Orthodox Judaism. A provocative claim.
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    JFK, 1963, on peace
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    by enbar  5-12-2007    1
     JFK's commencement address at American University in 1963, after the Cuban missile crisis. In it he remarks on Soviet propaganda claims that the U.S. is planning a "preventative war" -- which he describes as outlandish -- and declares, "The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war."
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    Long-term effects of Iraq war likely worse than Vietnam for U.S.
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    by enbar  4-29-2007   
     The WaPo interviews a number of experts who suggest that given the current situation, the Iraq war will probably have disastrously long-term fallout for U.S. global standing that "makes Vietnam look like a cakewalk." Already the rest of the world sees the war as incompetently mismanaged, ethically and legally indefensible, strategically misguided, and resulting in a massive humanitiarian catastrophe.
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    Oxford Research Group's assessment of GWOT
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    by enbar  4-24-2007   
     The Telegraph reports on the recent study by the Oxford Research Group, which contends that the attempt to use military force to "contain" global attacks on the status quo will eventually backfire. Interesting, if tendentious.
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    Oxford Research Group assesses the GWOT: thumbs down
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    by enbar  4-24-2007   
     Liberal think tank Oxford Research Group says the GWOT is going to make global terror worse in the middle-term (the next 50 years or so); they make some powerful points.
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    "Fulfilling our Zionist destiny": Ha'aretz op-ed
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    by enbar  4-24-2007    2
     A sober look at the current state of affairs in Israel from the left-of-center Ha'aretz. ( Update : Ha'aretz is not "relatively conservative" as I origianally stated. Thanks to jkarlin for the correction.
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    Iraq and the sunk-cost fallacy
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    by enbar  4-22-2007   
     Asks the question: are we staying in Iraq because we've already invested so much in it, or because we think success is possible? Compares this to the economist's "sunk-cost fallacy", the well-known explanation for "throwing good money after bad."
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    Vatican threatens to boycott Holocaust memorial
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    by wiccantexan  4-12-2007    1
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    Riverbend on the state of the Iraq war
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    by enbar  3-10-2007   
     "Baghdad Burning" with an angry and passionate denunciation of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
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    Google Earth as a surival tool in Iraq
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    by enbar  2-16-2007   
     Google Earth used by ordinary Sunni Baghdadis in Iraq to figure out ways of evading and avoiding Shia militias and Interior Ministry patrols.
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    Declassified PowerPoint slides on CentCom's Iraq planning (2002)
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    by enbar  2-15-2007   
     National Security Archive has posted a set of PowerPoint slides from 2002 indicating that Tommy Franks and CentCom believed that troop levels could be lowered to 5000 (that's right, five thousand) by last December. Plan described as "delusional."
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    Republicans in Congress: don't mention the surge
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    by enbar  2-14-2007    1
     An internal strategy memo from Congressional Republicans lays it out with startling clarity: "Democrats want to force us to focus on defending the surge, making the case that it will work... If we let the Democrats force us into a debate on the surge, or the current situation in Iraq, we lose." As always, they advise, just keep repeating "9-11, 9-11, 9-11" until people agree with you.
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    USAF Counterproliferation Center
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    by enbar  2-5-2007   
     Links from the USAF Air War College to white papers and research documents on terrorism. Includes work by some very widely known and respected researchers, both inside and outside the military, e.g. psychologist Jerrold Post.
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    Interview with Maj. John Morris, chaplain and Iraq vet
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    by enbar  2-1-2007   
     Great interview with Maj. John Morris, a chaplain with the Minnesota National Guard, done by Speaking of Faith host Krista Tippett. The program is definitely worth a listen.
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    Benjamin and Aslan on American Islam
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    by enbar  1-25-2007    13
     Exchange between Daniel Benjamin (author of The Next Attack) and Reza Aslan (author of No God but God) on the situation of American Muslims in the context of the GWOT. Focuses on the new book by Paul Barrett, American Islam. This is the fourth piece out of four; all are worth a read.
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    "Appeal for Redress": active-duty military petition against Iraq escalation
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    by enbar  1-18-2007   
     A petition launched by a group of active-duty serivcemembers seeking to appeal directly to Congress to end the Iraq war.
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    How to control public opinion on the war
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    by enbar  1-18-2007    20
     MoJo interviews Rick Scavetta, an officer formerly working in Army media relations in Afghanistan, who talks about the ways the war is "marketed" to civilians (for example: no one's really looking for Osama any more).
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    Posters for peace
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    by enbar  1-3-2007    20
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    Religion and war will die out, scientists predict
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    by enbar  1-2-2007    2
     Daniel Dennett (okay, not a scientist, but still) and others predict that as people's access to information becomes more democratic and widespread, the appeal of traditional religions and fundamentalisms will evaporate. These folks obviously know nothing about religions or how they work...
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    Latest from "Get Your War On" comix
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    by enbar  12-26-2006   
     New postings from "Get Your War On" since Thanksgiving. If you don't know it, this is probably the bitterest, angriest, most obscene political cartoonist there is. I think he's great; YMMV.
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    Krugman: Respect for early war critics
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    by enbar  12-8-2006    2
     Latest column from Paul Krugman. It's an "honor roll" of people who publicly criticized the administration position on going to war in Iraq before it happened. As it turns out, most of their predictions have come true. Remarkably, the Weekly Standard piece that makes fun of "antiwar doomsayers" is still online here: http://snurl.com/14mcf
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    Military equipment repair costs: $2bn per month
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    by enbar  11-30-2006    8
     Pressure to run a "leaner" (i.e., cheaper) military has led planners to underestimate maintenance costs, which means that there are increasing equipment shortages as things wear out or are destroyed.
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    Newt Gingrich: we failed in Iraq
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    by enbar  11-30-2006    5
     Newt Gingrich, in a traditional New Hampshire campaign setting, labels the Bush administration's Iraq strategy "a failure" and calls for "contrition."
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    Post-Pearl Harbor audio archive of interviews
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    by enbar  11-29-2006   
     Audio archives of "man-in-the-street" interviews around the US of reactions to Pearl Harbor. The Library of Congress has made available many hours of audio recordings in multiple formats (Real, .wav, and .mp3). For a great example, listen to the audio on this page: snurl.com/13pcw. It's an interview with several Indiana University students about their thoughts on Pearl Harbor three days after the bombing.
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    10 films the US Government would rather you not see.
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    by TeDub  11-29-2006    14
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    Watch Gen. John Abizaid Q&A session Friday
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    by enbar  11-17-2006   
     Gen. John Abizaid of US CENTCOM will be leading a "forum" at the Kennedy School of Govt. There should be a lively back-and-forth with the audience. It can be seen via webcast here .
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    Language, logic, and the "war on terror"
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    by enbar  11-16-2006    2
     The author asks us to consider: when the US claims to be spreading "freedom" and "democracy," what precisely do these words mean? Freedom to do what, and what kind of democracy?
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    Iraq: how to get out
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    by enbar  11-16-2006    1
     This guy argues that the only way to generate the political will to leave Iraq, which he says is "the least worst option" at this point, is for the antiwar movement to step up its efforts and challenge public opinion. "The civil war has progressed to the point where even a million troops won't make a difference."
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    The case against Rumsfeld
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    by enbar  11-13-2006    3
     An update on the possible war crimes case against Rumsfeld.
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    Bombing "softens Muslims" to Gospel
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    by enbar  11-9-2006    9
     From July 2006: Samaritan's Purse finds that getting the shit bombed out of them makes Muslims more likely to accept Jesus. Via http://snurl.com/11q5v
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    The War God That Failed
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    by invictus  11-6-2006    3
     Latest article of Justin Raimondo
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    Student thesis on Iraq war justifications
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    by enbar  11-1-2006    1
     A student has catalogued and documented the 27 (IIRC) different justifications used by the Bush administration and cited in the media for invading Iraq.
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    The Military Commissions Act: legal issues
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    by enbar  10-29-2006    3
     A TomPaine.com legal journalist on the likely challenges to the MCA.
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    Ex-diplomat Kiesling on Iraq prospects
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    by enbar  10-29-2006   
     J. Kiesling, a Foreign Service officer who resigned to protest the Iraq invasion, gives his perspective on the current situation and future prospects.
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    Alberto Gonzales, war criminal?
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    by enbar  10-29-2006   
     From 2005, an editorial consisting of the text of a proposed indictment of Alberto Gonzales for alleged violations of the War Crimes Act (Title 18 USC sec. 2441).
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