Senate Ratifies START Treaty
Moments ago, the United States Senate voted 71-26 to approve ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, also known as New START....
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START Treaty Debate Contentious
As the Senate continues to debate passage of the START Treaty, the future of the nuclear arms pact with Russia is all but...
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Surviving Nuclear Attack: “Duck and Cover” Is Back
Almost three decades have passed since the film The Atomic Cafe (1982) offered a cynical, and yet vacuous, denigration of the efforts of...
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Senate to Consider START Arms Control Treaty
ABC News reported on December 16 that with the bill extending the Bush-era tax cuts having been passed by the Senate and headed...
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Obama Ignores Afghanistan-Pakistan Reality
The Obama administration plans to release a review of U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan on December 16. White House Press Secretary Robert...
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Uncle Sam’s Afghan Drug Lord
Governments’ dealings with paid informers are always risky. By his willingness to snitch on his friends and associates, the informer has demonstrated his...
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WikiLeaks: Asking the Right Questions
Nearly everyone with an internet connection knows the website WikiLeaks.org to be the notorious publisher of inconvenient truths about the secret machinations of...
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Gingrich Calls Assange an “Enemy Combatant”
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange an “enemy combatant” on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch. He also called...
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WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. & EU Climate Bullying, Bribery, Espionage
A series of secret U.S. diplomatic cables released in recent days by the whistle-blower group WikiLeaks shows the American and European governments used...
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WikiLeaks: Whistleblowing or Treason?
The Obama administration used bribes of up to $30 billion in foreign aid and spying by the CIA to force underdeveloped nations to...
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Families Grieve as Six U.S. Soldiers’ Bodies Return From Afghanistan
As the death toll among U.S. service members in Afghanistan continues to mount — 2010 is the deadliest year of the war thus...
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WikiLeaks Releases U.S. Diplomatic Cables
The Internet-based watchdog site WikiLeaks began releasing more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in batches beginning November 28, earning the condemnation of the...
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First Time: U.S. Tanks in Afghanistan
M1A1 Abrams tanks will be put to use in Afghanistan’s Helmand province by early spring. It is the first time in the nine-year...
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Obama Greets Muslim pilgrims
Only a few days have passed since President Obama’s return from an expensive overseas jaunt in which he traveled from India to Indonesia...
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Obama and Clinton Push START Nuclear Treaty
AP reported on November 17 that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to reporters after a 90-minute breakfast meeting with members of...
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