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Iraq Is Such a House of Trauma, It Doesn't Take Much to Get PTSD

By Jeremiah Goulka / TomDispatch.com

Our idea of what used to be called "shell shock" tends to be limited to terrible battles, not just the daily stress of living in a war zone or surviving a couple of close calls.

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The Media's Dangerous Rush to Judge: Right-Wing or Middle Eastern, Planned or Amateur, Terrorist or the Work of a Nut-Job?

By Robert Parry / Consortium News

Can the Boston Bombings Increase our Sympathy for Iraq and Syria, for All Such Victims?

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment

Iraqi Blogger Riverbend’s 15 Lessons from a Decade of War Underscore Why War and Violence Solve Nothing

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Is an International Cyberwar Imminent?

By Shona Ghosh / Al Jazeera English

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U.S. Doesn't Want You to Know Which Latin American Security Forces It's Training

The Madness of the Willful Destruction of Our Dependable Popular Way of Life

'I Am Still a Prisoner': Yemeni Journalist Jailed at Obama's Request Now Under House Arrest

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Half of Egypt Can't Afford Beans, and the Only Help the US Sends Is 140,000 Tear Gas Canisters?

Spengler / Asia Times

$40 Billion Arms Deal for Israel: Why Obama's Palestine Rhetoric Rings Hollow

Josh Ruebner / AlterNet

Young Boy Who's an American Citizen Locked Up in Israeli Jail--And the U.S. 'Doesn't Even Care'

Alex Kane / Mondoweiss

Fewer Students Coming to America Because They Fear Guns, Says John Kerry

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

"I Do Not Want to Die Here": Gitmo Detainee Describes Horrific Hunger Strike, Violent Force Feedings

Alex Kane / AlterNet

America Has Turned a World Without Serious Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch

Is Tom Friedman the Most Overrated and Disgraceful Journalist in America?

Robert Parry / Consortium News

Why Beyonce and Jay-Z 's Cuba Trip Made Supporters of the Embargo Go Crazy

Arturo Lopez-Levy / Foreign Policy in Focus

Beatings, Attempted Suicides and Deliberate Starvation: The Dystopic Hell of Guantanamo Bay

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Welcome to Little Baghdad, California

Arun Gupta / The Progressive

Obama's New Treasury Secretary Pushes Austerity That Spreads Global Misery

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administration Lied About Who Drones Kill

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

The Wall Street Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Your Bank Account

Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

Someone at the Vatican Is Illegally Downloading Porn

Katie McDonough / Salon

Singer Morrissey's Scathing Letter to the Public About Margaret Thatcher: "A Terror Without an Atom of Humanity"

Morrissey / AlterNet

Who's Provoking Who? America's B52 Bombers Bring War Clouds Over North Korea

Pepe Escobar / Al Jazeera English

How the West Fueled the Ever-Growing Carnage in Syria

Nicolas J.S. Davies / AlterNet

How America's Imperial Class Has Hijacked Human Rights to Further Its Interests

Chris Hedges / Truthdig

The Darker Side of Margaret Thatcher: From Austerity to Apartheid

Amy Goodman, Tariq Ali / Democracy Now!

Reactions to Thatcher's Passing

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WikiLeaks Strikes Again: Website Publishes 1.7 Million Documents on U.S. Foreign Policy

Alex Kane / AlterNet

Revealed: CIA's Deadly Drone War in Pakistan Began With Shady Blood-Soaked Deal

Alex Kane / AlterNet

America's Hired Death Squads and Torture Teams Are Still Operating in Iraq

William Boardman / Reader Supported News

Tens of Thousands Gather to Imagine a Better World

Signe Predmore / YES! Magazine

The Butcher Bill for Syria Is Going to Reach Well Over 70,000 People, and Even More Mideast Chaos

Conn Hallinan / Foreign Policy in Focus

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