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Trump Violates The Logan Act By Reposting Threat To Iran
Trump illegally interfered in US Middle East policy in violation of the Logan Act by reposting a threat to Iran.
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Biden’s Strong Israel Response Has Republicans Reeling
Republicans thought that they would politically benefit from the Hamas attack on Israel, but on Sunday, Nikki Haley showed that Biden’s response left the GOP with nothing.
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Trump, Iran’s Rouhani exchange threats, insults on U.N.’s world stage
U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a “weakness of intellect.”
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Trump lawyer Giuliani says Iran’s government will be overthrown
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Saturday said that U.S. sanctions on Iran are leading to economic pain that could lead to a “successful revolution,” contrasting with administration comments that government change in Tehran is not U.S. policy.
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Reckless Trump Just Called His Meeting With Military Leaders ‘The Calm Before The Storm’
When asked by reporters what he meant by “calm before the storm,†Trump said, “You’ll find out,†before being whisked away.
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Iran Responds to Trump’s Muslim Ban by Banning US Citizens
“The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran…will take reciprocal measures in order to safeguard the rights of its citizens”
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Cabinet Appointees Seek Confirmation By Disavowing Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric
It’s so bad for Trump that even those he’s chosen to serve in his administration are distancing himself from him – all so they can get a job.
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John Bolton Says a ‘Real’ President Would Overthrow Iranian Government – Again
The CIA-backed 1953 coup is responsible for our current bad relations with Iran. John Bolton apparently thinks another coup will fix things
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Trump Admits He Did Not See Video of Plane Loaded with $400 Million for Iran
“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!”
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Iran Claims Republicans Tried To Delay Return Of US Prisoners Until After The Election
Making a claim that sadly seems plausible on the surface, an Iranian official accused Republicans of asking Tehran to delay the recent prisoner exchange until after the presidential election.
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Paul Ryan Promises House Will Do Everything Possible to Sabotage Peace with Iran
Paul Ryan dwells on the capture of 10 American sailors while ignoring their release, seeming to dismiss the possibility of peace with Iran
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Hillary Clinton Says Iran Deserves No Thanks For Releasing American Detainees
Hillary Clinton responded to Iran’s release of four Americans who were unjustly imprisoned by saying that Iran deserves no thanks, and is still violating UN Security Council resolutions with its ballistic missile program.
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The White House Blasts Republicans For Being Unhappy That Iran Released 10 US Sailors
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest blasted Republicans for being unhappy that diplomacy worked and got 10 US sailors released from Iran. Earnest suggested that Republicans would rather start a new war in the Middle East than be happy that the sailors are coming home.
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Republicans Can Learn What Religious Freedom Means from Muslims
Islamic nations are adamant in protecting the rights of all religions within their borders as an important adherence to their Islamic faith
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Make No Mistake About It, George W Bush’s Iraq War Has Spread To France
It is incredibly ironic that the one American ally that vehemently protested and condemned Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has now felt the horrific results of terrorists created by Bush’s folly in attacking and slaughtering hundreds-of-thousands of innocent Muslims, and creating the Islamic State.
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Boehner Says Obama’s Unwillingness to Attack Iran Shows a Lack of Commitment to Democracy
There is no low Republicans will not sink to when they are deprived of the opportunity to launch another baseless attack an innocent nation
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Frontman Michael Stipe Tells Trump to F-Off After Using R.E.M. Song
A Tea Party rally was the perfect venue for Trump again mindlessly unleashing an angry response by being really, really clueless
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GOP’s Epic Failure To Stop Iran Deal Started With Netanyahu Stunt In March
The Israeli Prime Ministers speech to Congress backfired and pushed Democrats who were on the fence into siding with President Obama.
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440 Rabbis Now Urge Congress to Support Iran Nuclear Deal
The pressure on Congress continues to mount as 340 Rabbis have become 440, and only the gang who gave us the Iraq War support an Iran War.
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51 Christian Faith Leaders Smack Down Republicans By Supporting Obama on Iran
More and more groups have come forward to support the president. The latest is a group of 51 Christian leaders, who represent dozens of Christian denominations and organizations. In a letter to Congress, they voiced their support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as the best means of keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran.
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More Than 70 Nuclear Nonproliferation Experts Announce Support for Iran Nuclear Deal
The Republicans find themselves increasingly alone in opposing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. Back on July 20, not only did the United Nations Security Council unanimously endorse the JCPOA, but we saw a “Statement by National Security Leaders on the Announcement of a Joint Comprehensive Plan…
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Bush National Security Adviser Backs Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Former national security adviser Brent Snowcroft says rejecting the Iran deal “is an abdication of America’s unique role and responsibility”
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House Republicans Introduce a Resolution of Disapproval of Iran Nuclear Agreement
House Republicans will be voting on a resolution of disapproval of the Iran deal, and Senate Republicans are talking about a resolution too
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Where Is The Shame That The World Sees Americans As Racist And Extremists?
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
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Mike Huckabee Compares President Obama To Nazis Exterminating Jews
Huckabee, who believed in diplomacy for white presidents, claims that Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven”
John Kerry Tells Republicans To Stop Believing In Unicorns And Join The Real World On Iran
John Kerry dismissed Senator Bob Corker’s fantasies about a world where Iran’s nuclear knowledge can be made to magically disappear.
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On Iran Deal, Obama is the Adult Voice in the Room Once Again
As GOP stupidity mounts, claiming they can stop a deal they cannot legally stop, President Obama proves again he can make the tough decisions
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IL Newspaper Crushes Sen. Kirk’s Moderate Reputation By Calling Him A Loud-Mouthed Radical
A local newspaper lashed out at Kirk’s extreme rhetoric on the Iran deal, calling him the love child of Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz.
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Upset with #IranDeal, Ted Cruz Vows for the Fourth Time to Block Obama Nominees
Ted Cruz has returned to his old game of refusing to approve Obama nominees in order to punish the president for not obeying Congress
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Israeli Netanyahu And GOP React To Iran Deal Like Petulant Little Brats
This idea that Israel, or Netanyahu, has unfettered purview of America’s foreign policy is a legacy of the Bush administration
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Human Rights Report That Ted Cruz Demanded Reveals Republican Hypocrisy
In fact, the State Department could easily have substituted the name Republican Party for Islamic Republic of Iran, condemned the same practices, and no conscious American or citizen of any other foreign nation would have batted an eye or disagreed with the assertions in the report; America’s human rights violations as of late are well known around the world.
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Lindsey Graham Says Rand Paul Nomination Would Put Him Into a Coma
With an almost comedic and absolute lack of self-awareness, Lindsey Graham claims Rand Paul is the GOP’s looming disaster
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Jerusalem Post Deputy Managing Editor: Obama May Love Jews, But he is an Anti-Semite
We’re back to President Obama being accused of anti-Semitism because he won’t let Israel dictate America’s foreign policy
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Rand Paul Prefers to Let the Refugees We Created in Iraq Suffer and Die
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn’t think the United States owes them anything
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Marco Rubio Introduces his New Foreign Policy: The Liam Neeson Doctrine
Marco Rubio wants to make like Liam Neeson in 2008’s Taken, and “look, find, and kill” the Islamic State
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Netanyahu Confidante Threatens to Nuke Iran and Slaughter Arab Civilians
If anything, based on Netanyahu’s government and Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon’s boasts this week, it appears Israel has no intention of scaling back war plans.
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Religious Right Leader Rick Wiles is Fascinated by Obama’s Privates
You know the Religious Right, and maybe some of its male leaders, have got nothing when they start worrying about Obama’s presidential package
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Republican Presidential Hopefuls Put Their Buffoonery on Display in South Carolina
Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz, got together and agreed to collectively sound like Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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Sarah Palin Says President Obama is Flirting With the Devil
Sarah Palin warns that in his dealings with Iran that Obama is flirting with the devil…but wait…isn’t Obama the devil?
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George W. Bush Reminds Americans Why He Was a Failure and An Idiot
It is true, George W. Bush is hapless, but he is also an idiot for not recognizing his own failures as president and in fact actually regards himself as a raging success.
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Delusional Lindsey Graham Has No Chance Of Ever Being President
There is no person in America as self-aggrandizing as Senator Lindsey Graham whose self-imposed image as a brilliant foreign policy and international relations genius informs him he can be president.
For Corporate Profits Republicans Want President Obama To Skirt Congress’ Authority
What is duplicitous and very telling about how Republicans operate, and where their only loyalties and priorities lie, is that they are pushing the President to seek unilateral authority to negotiate and sign an international trade deal; something that requires congressional approval. And yet they have done everything in their power and all but forbid him from exercising his rightful executive authority where Congress has no say according to the Constitution; like on immigration enforcement and negotiating with foreign governments.
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Scott Walker Talks Up GOP Common Sense While Proving He Has None in NH Speech
Walker throws facts and history to the wind as he talks up a fantasy GOP with common sense that nowhere exists and has no chance of existing
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Obama Relents and Gives Congress Veto Power Over Iran Nuclear Deal
The current President, Barack Obama, will go down in history for providing tens-of-millions of Americans with access to affordable health care, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, an historic climate change deal with China, and with the stroke of his pen, ceding executive branch authority over foreign policy to a Congress loyal to a foreign national.
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Delusional Michele Bachmann Thinks President Obama Has Virtually Guaranteed World War III
In a radio interview, former GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann asserted that President Obama’s policies will lead to World War III.
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Sean Hannity Helps Rand Paul Find Excuses For the Things He Used to Believe
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
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President Obama Says Scott Walker Needs To Bone Up On Foreign Policy
In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, President Obama took a jab at Scott Walker’s lack of foreign policy experience.
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Republican And Netanyahu Bloodlust Drives Nuclear Deal Criticism
The neo-con’s solution has been fulfilling Netanyahu’s twenty-three year campaign for Americans to die in a war with the Islamic Republic of Iran primarily because Israel wants to be the only Middle East nation with an American-provided nuclear arsenal.
Michele Bachmann Is Still Bonkers, Compares Obama To Deranged Germanwings Co-Pilot
Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) compared President Obama to Andreas Lubitz, the deranged German co-pilot who crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, on her Facebook page Tuesday. Bachmann posted: With his Iran deal, Barack Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls on the German Wings…
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Jeb Bush Uses Op-Ed To Belittle Obama’s Foreign Policy As “Schoolyard Antics”
Bush is right about one thing. This is no time for schoolyard antics. Bush and his fellow Republicans ought to stop engaging in them.
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Israel Spied On America And Passed Classified Secrets To Anti-American Republicans
f Americans failed to believe that America did not need to re-evaluate its unconditional support for Israel before, this deliberate and concerted effort between Israel and Republicans to subvert American foreign policy cannot be ignored.
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Conservative Radio Host: If You Oppose Netanyahu, You Oppose God
What emerges is Netanyahu as some sort of American super patriot for wanting to drag us into the war Republicans can’t, because Obama’s a bully
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Finally America Will Re-evaluate Unconditional Backing For Israel
Regardless any Americans’ opinion about the Jewish state, giving Israel free taxpayer money is supporting it; like it or not. Many Americans do not like it one bit; especially when this country is falling apart and Americans are hungry.
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New York Times Editorial Board Slams Netanyahu For Using Racism To Win Israeli Election
Shortly after it became apparent that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party had survived a close election and would retain power over the nation’s government, the New York Times released a scathing editorial criticizing Netanyahu for going ugly and utilizing racism and anti-Palestine sentiment to energize far-right Israeli voters.
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Netanyahu’s Iran Speech A Distraction From Israel’s GOP-Style Economic Failure
Although warmonger Netanyahu does want America to wage war against Iran on Israel’s behalf, he had a different motivation to save his job as Israel’s leader.
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GOP Cries Appeasement. But Up Until Now, We’ve Been Appeasing the Wrong People
Republicans accuse President Obama of appeasement – and he has appeased Israel before Netanyahu’s attempted coup – but those days should be past
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General Accuses Tom Cotton and 46 Other Republican Senators Of Mutiny
Major Gen. Paul D. Eaton stopped short of calling Cotton and 46 Republicans traitors. As a career military man Eaton used the appropriate label for Cotton’s lack of ethics and knowledge of his place as a congressional representative.
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Lindsey Graham Proves Ayatollah Right – America Is Disintegrating in Madness
Republicans have actively worked for the collapse of the political system (government) entirely. Now, the machinations of the Republicans have been exposed on the global stage and finally a foreign leader said what the world and an increasing number of Americans already know.
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No, Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Syria Was Nothing Like “Tehran Tom’s” Iran Letter
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
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Congressional Republicans Are Still Angry They Are Not The President
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The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.
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“Tehran Tom” Cotton’s Iran Blunder Has Made Him the New Hanoi Jane
As the saying goes, stupidity is its own reward, and Republican Senator Tom Cotton has certainly proven the truth of that anonymous proverb
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GOP Iran Letter Was A Push For A Regime Change War And Defense Industry Profits
The truth, and true purpose of the letter, has really never been in question; specifically because the filthy little neo-con who originated it has broadcast the purpose for the world to hear for months.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Schools GOP Traitors on Constitution and International Law
The Iranian may know the Constitution and international law better than the treasonous 47, but it seems he does not understand that in America, Republicans are not bound to any law; domestic or international.
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Netanyahu and the GOP See Peace as an Existential Threat
What Netanyahu and Republicans fear is peace, which would interrupt their cycle of fear, leaving Iran more reasonable than the GOP
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Nancy Pelosi Slams Netanyahu For Insulting America’s Intelligence
What makes Netanyahu and Republicans ‘condescending insult’ even more infuriating and egregious is that he is demanding half-a-billion dollars more from American taxpayers for Israel’s military; more on that later.
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Conservatives Go Gaga For Bibi As They Trip Over Themselves Praising Netanyahu’s Speech
Immediately after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech before Congress, Republicans and conservatives made sure to deliver overwhelming praise, especially considering the controversy behind the address.
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Republicans, Not President Obama, Are Anti-Semitic and Un-American
Conservatives claim Obama is an anti-Semite. This is a stunning claim, particularly because Republicans, tea partiers, and so-called Christians are raging anti-Semites of the highest order.
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Conservative Radio Host Wants Democrats Skipping Netanyahu Speech Hanged
Apparently, having integrity is a hanging offense according to Andrea Shea King, who fails to explain how bombing Iran will save us from ISIL
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John McCain Tag Teams With Morning Joe To Label Obama’s Foreign Policy As “Delusional”
On Monday morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did what he does best, which is preen for the cameras and make a couple of appearances on cable news shows. McCain made his way over to MSNBC’s studio for an extended sit down with the Morning Joe crew.
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Right Wing Media Explodes at Rumor Obama Would Shoot Down Israeli Jets Attacking Iran
A third-hand rumor justifies every lie the Right Wing media tells itself about President Obama
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GOP Lunacy In Criticizing Obama’s ISIS Strategy At CPAC
Now they are lining up at the annual Aryan-sponsored conservative conclave to accuse the President of all manner of malfeasance in cleaning up and dealing with George W. Bush’s religious crusade in Iraq that engendered the rise of Islamic extremists known as the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL).
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The Truth, “No president in history has done more for Israel’s security than Obama”
Republicans hope to paint Democrats as “anti-American” “Nazis” if they don’t attend Netanyahu’s speech, but President Obama has done more for Israel’s security than any other president.
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Israeli Ambassador Throws John Boehner Under The Bus After Disrespect Of Obama Backfires
In an attempt to justify and mitigate Prime Minister Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation to speak to Congress, Ron Dermer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambassador to the U.S., basically threw Speaker Boehner (R-OH) under the bus.
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Obama to cut short India trip to pay call on Saudi Arabia
President Barack Obama will shorten his trip to India and divert to Saudi Arabia, paying respects after the death of King Abdullah and meeting with the oil-rich nation’s new monarch, the White House said Saturday.
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Republicans’ Allegiance Is to Israel; Not America
It is obvious now that America is not in an ‘official war,’ Republicans need a fear-mongering diatribe from Netanyahu on the pressing necessity for anything to draw America into another Middle East war
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Is Complex Systems Collapse in Our Future?
The internationalized world of the Bronze Age came to a catastrophic end. We are not immune to a similar systems collapse
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The Possibility of Obama Successfully Negotiating with Iran has GOP Freaking Out
Only Republicans would see a war slipping through their fingers as a loss, and losing this chance is almost too much for John Boehner to bear
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Fox News Still Falsely Claiming Muslim Leaders Have Been Silent On Charlie Hebdo Attack
While French law enforcement was engaged in standoffs with the terrorists responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack, ultimately killing three of them, Fox News decided to push the canard that Muslims leaders around the world have remained silent on the attacks and have not expressed any condemnation or outrage.
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Wesley Clark Calls for a New National Strategy to Unite and Move us Forward
Clark outlines the challenges facing us, which together, he argues, “are exactly the grounds over which a national strategy must be unfurled.”
America Must Stay Out of Islam’s Sectarian War
No American should delude themselves that the current violence raging in Iraq and Syria is anything other than an extreme sectarian war between the two major Islamic sects, or that American military intervention is ever going to bring a cessation to the violence.
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ISIL and the Limits of the Republican Alternate Reality Bubble
The U.S. must tread carefully in Iraq. The GOP’s reality bubble will not protect them – or the rest of us – from real world, as opposed to fantasy, consequences
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President Obama Shows True Leadership By Pushing For Peace Between Israel And Palestine
On Tuesday, an op-ed written by President Obama appeared in Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper. This op-ed comes as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are extremely high.
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Republicans Blame Obama For Iraq When It Was Bush Who Signed The Agreement to Leave
What any of the Republicans blaming Obama for pulling American troops out of Iraq in 2011 should remember, is that in October 2008 George W. Bush was president when the Status of Forces Agreement was drafted and ratified by Iraqi lawmakers a month later in November 2008.
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George W. Bush’s Head Cheerleader For The Iraq War Forgets What Year The War Started
Ari Fleischer, the White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush during the early years of the Iraq War. took to Twitter on Friday to help conservatives pin the blame on Obama for the recent surge of violence in Iraq.
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Conservative Media’s Lack Of Empathy For Bowe Bergdahl And His Family Is Sickening
Republicans in Washington and the right-wing media decided to push all-in by claiming the President had negotiated with terrorists and endangered the nation’s security in order to save an anti-American deserter who deserved to be held as a prisoner indefinitely by the Taliban.
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Ross Douthat Ignores Context and Facts to Make Obama a Foreign Policy Failure
Douthat also carefully avoids mention of Egypt, another Obama foreign policy success story, where the Obama administration’s moderating influence ensured that the Mubarak regime would be sent packing, and without the violence of a civil war.
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John McCain Bangs the War Drums While Calling Obama ‘Most Naive President In History’
During an interview with Arizona radio station KFYI on Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called President Obama ‘the most naive president in history’
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Bill Maher’s ‘Flip A District’ Should Focus On Getting Rid Of GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter
Back in late January, Bill Maher announced that he was going to use his show to affect this year’s mid-term elections and do a little activism of his own. We’d like to see Duncan Hunter go.
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Obama’s Diplomacy Wins As Iran Keeps Up Their Part of Nuclear Deal
President Obama has sought a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear threat, and yesterday, diplomacy won a small victory as Iran kept up their part of the historic agreement and began scaling back their nuclear facilities.
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Jon Stewart Slams Congress By Calling Them the Justin Bieber of Government
On Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart brilliantly intertwined two stories that, on the surface, have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
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Why Cory Booker (Thinks He) Knows Better Than Obama Regarding Iran Deal
Certainly there are those who have admired Sen. Cory Booker from afar who are now somewhat flummoxed at his decision not to support President Barack Obama’s historic deal with Iran.
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Senate Hypocrites Ignore Our Needs at Home But Help Israel Push For War With Iran
Republicans can hardly be bothered to do much in the way of meaningful legislation, and yet they find time to come up with a bill that does nothing except elevate the danger of another war.
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Eric Cantor Takes Steps to Give Netanyahu Power Over American Middle East Policy
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has taken steps to reassert Netanyahu’s power over American Middle East policy to thwart the P5+1 agreement that halts Iran’s alleged nuclear weapon program.
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Michele Bachmann Says Obama has Rewritten Constitution For Himself
“You’re not a king, you’re not a dictator, you can’t do whatever you want. Our Constitution limits the president’s power, even though President Obama doesn’t act that way.”
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The Republicans Are Still Blaming Obama for Iraq and Afghanistan
it was not Obama who invaded Iraq on a fabricated pretext and with an army designed to fight not an insurgency but World War III.
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Jim Garrow and Erik Rush Obama Should Be Stood Against Wall and Shot
Republicans have become obsessed not with simply impeaching or imprisoning President Obama, but with killing him. And they are quite open about their desires. We just saw how a pair of former generals have dishonored their uniforms by saying Obama must be forcibly removed from office and how a Christian militia group claimed that Jesus…
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The Religious Right With Their Weaponized Jesus Are Not Christians
For Boykin it was bromance at first sight and perhaps a wee bit of latent homosexuality as he waxed over Jesus’ “big, bulging biceps…thin waist” and “strong shoulders.”
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The White House Storms Fox News To Refute Idiotic Republican Talking Point on Iran Deal
The White House sent Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken on Fox News this morning to destroy the moronic GOP talking point that the Iran nuclear deal is distraction from the ACA website.
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Republican Condemns President Obama For Not Using the Old Testament to Guide Policy
It is astonishing, but one of their champions used the floor of the House to condemn President Obama for not utilizing Old Testament prophecy as a guiding force for Middle East policy,
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What the Feck Is Wrong with an Obama Pivot?
President Obama’s critics routinely dismiss him as “feckless,” but most have long records as feck-ups. And what’s wrong with pivoting?