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Trump Completely Melts Down Over Manhattan Trial As Middle East Burns
There is a crisis between Iran and Israel in the Middle East, but Trump is melting down over his Manhattan criminal trial.
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America Is Lucky That Biden Is President As Israel And Hamas Threaten War
President Biden is a steady hand at the wheel of American foreign policy as Israel has been attacked by Hamas.
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Jared Kushner Has Found A Way To Take Dark Money Bribes From The Middle East
Jared Kushner was in charge of Middle East policy during the Trump administration, and now he is hitting up the Persian Gulf states for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The Courtyard of Jerusalem’s US Embassy Has Been Named After Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner worked many jobs for Donald Trump was in the White House. He played an important role in the administration’s botched COVID response. He was also a key figure in pushing Trump to embrace criminal justice reform. Perhaps the most ambitious job the president gave his son-in-law, though, was making peace in the Middle…
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Jared Kushner Cancelled an MSNBC Appearance Last Minute, Then Went on Fox News
Despite his complete and utter lack of credentials, Donald Trump has given Jared Kushner a number of different tasks. One of the jobs the President gave to his son-in-law was to make peace in the Middle East. The White House has been promoting a recent peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The…
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Fact Checkers Dismiss Eric Trump’s “Laughable” Claim His Father Brought Peace to the Middle East
Donald Trump did not bring peace to the Middle East, despite what his son Eric told the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. The transparently false claim was quickly dismissed. “My father rebuilt the mighty American military – added new jets, aircraft carriers. He increased wages for our incredible men and women in uniform, and expanded…
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Opinion: The House and Europe Versus Trump and the Barbarians
When the House of Representatives and Europe issue a joint statement condemning Donald Trump and the world’s dark forces, you know something is terribly wrong in America.
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Trump Seeks Dershowitz Help with Kushner’s Failed Middle East Peace Plan
In 2017 Donald Trump put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of creating a plan to bring peace to the Middle East. It didn’t seem to matter to the president that the greatest diplomats in history couldn’t accomplish this objective, and Jared had absolutely no experience in international diplomacy. Let’s call Trump’s illogical move “nepotism…
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Report: Mueller Set to Reveal Trump’s Illicit Middle East Connections
Many people believe that the Russia probe is nearing its completion, but now The Daily Beast is reporting that Bob Mueller’s investigation might be moving to a whole new area of the world. According to The Beast: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office is preparing to reveal to the public a different side of his investigation….
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Crises in Middle East and North Korea and Trump Takes 18th Golf Trip in 12 Weeks
“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf” Trump asked in 2014
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Donald Trump’s Middle East Policy is Shaping Up to be a Disaster
Blame Trump’s uninformed decision-making processes, which is based entirely on the faulty assumption that he is a “smart guy.â€
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John Kasich Proposes Federal Agency To “Push Christianity†On the Middle East
Kasich subscribes to the Republican delusion that the road to peace depends upon forcing extremist Christianity down Muslim throats
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English Petition to Ban Trump Now Stands at 370,000 and Counting
The carefully crafted and nurtured Trump brand has been re-branded as something nobody wants overnight by Trump’s radicalization
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As His Leads Grow In Iowa And NH, Bernie Sanders Shows His Foreign Policy Chops
Bernie Sanders is building on his leads in Iowa and New Hampshire by showcasing his knowledge of foreign policy, and his peaceful path forward for the United States.
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What Everyone Needs to Know About the Islamic State
In this book, Daniel Byman explores global jihadism from its beginnings in 1979 to today, from the mujaheddin to the menacing Islamic State
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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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The Islamic State – Other People’s Business?
Republicans like to blame Obama, but Bush had already created ISIL, and Obama cannot un-create them, because Obama cannot un-invade Iraq
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Louie Gohmert Says Iraq War a Mistake. Because Obama
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
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Now Israelis And Republicans Are Very Angry At The Pope
Recently, although Republicans love the Vatican’s support for opposition to equal rights for women and the LGBT community, there has been growing enmity over the Pope’s opposition to income inequality and anthropogenic climate change. The Pope finally went too far this past week when he failed to comply with Israel’s agenda that Palestine will never be a sovereign state.
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W. Part II: Jeb Bush Says He Relies On His Brother For Middle East Policy Advice
Jeb Bush admitted that his brother, former President George W. Bush, was his most trusted adviser on U.S.-Israel policy.
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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.
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While Israelis Terrorize Christians, Evangelicals Accuse Obama Of Persecuting Christ
What the evangelical right never, never ever, talks about is the persecution, barbarism, and hatred targeting Christians at the hands of Israeli Jews in the Holy Land and it leads one to wonder if America’s neo-Christians are using President Obama as a surrogate for the Israelis targeting Christians for persecution.
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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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Tom Delay’s GOP Crusade to Establish Theocracy Is Doomed To Fail
The latest indication that Republicans will enjoin the Catholic bishops’ and religious right’s war against the Constitution, was disgraced former speaker of the house Tom Delay who said unapologetically that, “gays undermine his religious liberty.”
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Pew Report Details the Sorry State of Religious Tolerance in the World
Pew tells us restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39% of countries and that Muslims are as likely to be persecuted as Christians
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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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Bill O’Reilly’s Call for Holy War Just Articulates What the Right Has Been Doing All Along
We’ve been victims of holy war for decades. This just turns attention from our own women, children and poor to Muslim women, children and poor
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Fox & Friends Host Blows A Gasket After Eric Holder Slams Fox Over Radical Islam Obsession
During Wednesday morning’s broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck flipped out over comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday when he stated Fox News was overly preoccupied with the use of the term “radical Islam” when discussing the Islamic State.
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A Republican State Senator Wants to Start a Nuclear War with ISIS
ALEC member state Senator Jason Rapert (R-AR) has a solution to win the war against ISIL, y’all. Drop the nukes!
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Morning Joe Wants Obama To Send More Troops To Fight ISIL Than Were Used In Vietnam War
During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough whined about the Authorization for the Use of Military Force that President Obama put forth on Wednesday in regards to the ongoing situation with ISIL in the Middle East.
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Obama Limits Use Of Ground Troops in Proposed ISIL Fight Authorization
The following is a Letter from the President to the U.S. Congress regarding authorization for the Use of United States Armed Forces in connection with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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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 Official: Boehner And Netanyahu Conspired “To Defy and Humiliate President Obama”
Obviously Boehner is frustrated that he has been outplayed and out-maneuvered at every turn by the President, and lacking the wherewithal to take on the President himself, he marshaled support and conspired with a foreigner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to “defy and humiliate President Obama.”
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Anti-Semitic Hate Group Funding Republican National Committee Israel Trip
Now, it is apparently official that the Republican National Committee is closely-aligned with an official hate group according reports the RNC is accepting an all-expenses paid trip to Israel despite rightful criticism from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and an Israeli newspaper.
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Time To Prosecute House Speaker John Boehner For Violating Federal Law
Like every common criminal, or once-convicted felon, who continues to escape punishment for violating the law, Boehner continues his unethical, and now illegal, behavior because he truly believes he IS above the law. It is time to disabuse Boehner of that belief and restore the American people’s faith in the nation’s justice system.
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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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Texas Protesters To American Muslim Group: “Go Home And Take Obama With You”
Over the weekend, a protest formed at a conference in Texas held by a Muslim group titled “Stand With the Prophet Against Terror and Hate.” Protesters directed their hate towards Muslim attendees of the event.
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Rudy Giuliani Uses Charlie Hebdo Tragedy To Demand America Become A Police State
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani used the terrorist attack on a French newspaper to insist that the United States needs to have a police presence inside all Muslim places of worship.
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Conservative Columnist Predictably Uses French Terror Attack To Criticize President Obama
Shortly after news broke Wednesday morning that three gunmen attacked a French satirical newspaper, Breitbart columnist Ben Shapiro decided to use the tragic event to take shots at President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Religious Right: Loving Israel and Hating Islam Bestows Foreign Policy Cred
When Indiana Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Pence went to Israel he met Benjamin Netanyahu but not Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
To Delete Obama’s Agenda From History Republicans Violated Their Pledge To America
There has been an ongoing Republican crusade to eradicate any legislative accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers took control of the House after the 2010 midterms.
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Obama Sends 1500 Advisers to Iraq – Fox News Freaks Out
As President Obama sends 1500 troops to Iraq to advise, train, and assist, Fox News sees only a broken promise and troops on the ground
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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.”
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President Obama Talks Strategy with Anti-ISIL Coalition
President Obama pointed to the ideological component and to the economic conditions which contribute to ISIL’s recruitment of young men from across the region
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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Propaganda Demonizing Islam Is Starting to Infect Public Schools
Of course the Americans putting Goebbels’s propaganda tactics into practice are Fox News, neo-conservatives, Republicans, and their religious right sycophants, and their big lie is that the greatest threat to this nation is every person who adheres to the Muslim faith.
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Backhanded Way To End War…By A Republican
Former President George W. Bush and his crime family’s legacy cost us trillions and our economy is going to Hell in a hand basket, but a traitorous Republican (redundant) may have figured out how to end all wars by telling generals to retire.
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Lace ‘Em Up: Why Neo-Conservatives Are So Anxious To Put Boots On The Ground
Republicans are itching to bring in ground troops against ISIS. The reason stems from an incessant desire to prove American superiority through military means.
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For Republicans ISIL is Only an Excuse to Attack Our President
The suspicion that Republicans are far more horrified by a black president than Islamic terrorists is borne out by the rhetoric
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With Nothing To Run On Republicans Blow Religious Dog Whistles
Republicans are big on dog whistle politics, particularly going into a midterm election where they have no apparent agenda to run on, and as is usually the case with Republicans, they are appealing to a dependable voting bloc that are rabid over socially conservative (read religious) issues.
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GOP Senator Claims In Fox News Interview That ISIS Is A ‘Threat To Mainland United States’
During an appearance Wednesday on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) told anchor Martha McCallum that it was absolutely necessary for America to commit combat troops to the Middle East to combat ISIS because the terrorist group is a “threat to mainland United States.”
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Republican Living in Fantasyland Accuses Obama of Living in Fantasyland
Marsha Blackburn says, “Words matter, actions matter . . . You can’t just go say [we’ve] changed all the rules,” even as she invents facts
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Ted Cruz Parlays His Execrable Behavior at Arab Christian Conference Into Martyrdom
“They persecuted the Prophets of the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) who were speaking truth to power and these so-called Christians are persecuting Sen. Cruz in the same manner.”
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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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GOP Presidential Hopeful Ted Cruz Booed Off Stage During Arab Christian Conference
In a classic case of not knowing one’s audience, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Tea Party leader and potential 2016 Presidential candidate, was soundly booed off stage while delivering a speech at an Arab Christian conference in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night.
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House Republicans Conspire With War Criminal Dick Cheney to Plot Iraq Strategy
House Republicans met with war criminal Dick Cheney for counsel on dealing with IS, and likely to promote a new Iraq war.
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Fox News’ Sean Hannity Treats Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Like He’s An Expert On ISIS
On Tuesday night’s episode of Hannity, host Sean Hannity welcomed Duck Dynasty star and renowned homophobe Phil Robertson on the set to discuss the recent developments in the Middle East surrounding the radical Islamist group ISIS.
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ISIL Will Continue its Terror Campaign Until the World Says Enough! And Means it
The American people will have to decide if they are more tired of war or of the terrorists of ISIL
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Hateful Right-Wing Columnist Claims ‘Obama’s Incompetence’ Will Lead To Another 9/11 Attack
In his Sunday column for the Washington Times, Joseph Curl claimed that President Obama has shown his true incompetence when it comes to foreign policy and it is going to lead to another large-scale terrorist attack this coming September 11th.
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Republicans Fearmonger Over ISIS to Distract From Their Ineptitude
What is curious, is that Republicans are campaigning against President Obama who is not running for any political office, but since they cannot run on their records in Congress, they are using conditions in Iraq to frighten Americans into supporting the GOP.
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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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CBS Allows John McCain And Lindsey Graham To Beat The War Drums Over Iraq And Israel
During Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer had on Republican Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain. Both men were ostensibly on to discuss the recent issues in Israel, as well as the ongoing situation in Iraq.
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Regarding Surge In Iraqi Violence, Majority Of Americans Feel That US Should Not Intervene
CBS News and The New York Times released a poll Monday showing that 50% of Americans feel that the United States does not have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq.
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For Reasons They Will Never Admit Republicans Are Responsible For The Attack on Benghazi
Republicans are ultimately responsible for the attack on the Benghazi outpost for several reasons they will never admit, but that does not absolve them for their very substantial role in the diplomats’ deaths or eliminate the need for a special prosecutor to hold them accountable for inciting Islamist militants to attack Americans.
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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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Republicans Show That They Abhor Peace by Criticizing Nuclear Deal With Iran
What the American people are reminded of with the warmonger’s criticism of diplomatic efforts is that Republicans abhor peace nearly as much as they love killing jobs.
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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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George W. Bush Keynotes Event Promoting End Times
One of Jesus Christ’s commands to his followers was to spread the good news of the kingdom of god by convincing them he was the Messiah, but that is not the intent of the event Bush is promoting.
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McCain Says He Will Write Op-ed for Pravda – Pravda Says, Say What?
The Communist Party responded by calling McCain a russophobe and a rapacious hawk and Pravda said “OK” as long as he follows the Party line
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The Quest to Turn the U.S. Military into the Army of God
Fundamentalist Christianity is determined to turn not only our government, but more frighteningly, our military, into their tool
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Hearings on Syria Offer Questions, Answers, and more Questions
The hearings on Syria did not answer every reasonable question about a possible U.S. punitive strike, but they exposed some questions as unreasonable.
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The Vote on Syria Will Be a Reflection of America’s Integrity and Character
The current debate about whether America should take limited military action against the Syrian government is about keeping a commitment shared with 98% of the world’s governments.
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Where Syria is Concerned Let’s not Become a Global George Zimmerman
It is not hard to know what to think about the U.S. attacking Syria. That’s wrong. And it’s wrong for a number of reasons
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Joseph Farah Shows No Fact Safe When Standing Between Him and a Dollar
Let’s face it: no fact stands a chance when it gets in the way of a fundamentalist Christian and a dollar.
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Edward Snowden Highlights the Peculiar Republican Obsession with Russia
Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe”? Thanks in part to Edward Snowden, Republicans love to think now that Romney might have been right.
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Insider: A Chain of Errors Led to Romney Looking ‘ill-informed and opportunistic’
A tell all book written by Gabriel Schoenfeld, who describes himself as a “senior adviser” to the Romney campaign who spills the beans on the series of errors that doomed his campaign.
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House Republicans Praise Exxon for Arkansas Oil Spill That Taxpayers are Cleaning Up
House Republicans praised Exxon and expect Americans to give them a “pat on the back” for saddling taxpayers with the cost of cleaning up their tar spill.
A Delusional Liz Cheney Projects Her Father’s Mistakes onto President Obama
The theme of Liz Cheney’s fantasy screed was that Republicans had to start fighting back against President Obama or else freedom will be a distant memory.
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Obama’s Support for Israel’s Iron Dome Gives GOP Fits of Cognitive Dissonance
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
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In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
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An Interview with Nonbeliever Nation’s Author, David Niose
I ask David Niose, author of Nonbeliever Nation, a few questions about his book and about recent events in both America and around the world
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Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
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Right Wing Christian Religious Leaders Dream of Holy War With Islam
Fed by Netanyahu and Republicans at home, America’s right wing Christian fanatics are jonesing for a holy war against Islam.
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The Value Voters Summit Was An All-Inclusive Un-American Hate Group
The Values Voters Summit was not an expression of American values or a representation of the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom and equal rights.
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Unfortunately, America is Stuck with These Idiots
I blame the First Amendment. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not making excuses for bad behavior by Islamic fundamentalists or any other fundamentalists. And the First Amendment is great. It’s my favorite amendment. It’s why I can do what I do here. It’s why I can read what I read and believe what I believe…
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Occupy the Bible
The Religious Elite like the Wealth Elite wants us to subordinate our interests to their own. We can Occupy the Bible or let it destroy us