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Oil in Haiti

There is documented evidence dated as far back as 2004 that Haiti may indeed have oil reserves under it and that the U.S. and... more

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WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS WAR

Dennis Kucinich : More jobs & GET OUT of Afghanistan ! 11/24/09 MSNBC's Hardball.

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Feds: No True Count of Iraq Contractors

"KBR, the largest contractor in Iraq, is pulling out of that country so slowly that it could end up costing American... more

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Obama Honors Fallen Soldiers

Obama visits Dover Air Force Base to honor fallen soldiers. For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/

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Remembering 9/12 and Every Day Thereafter

Millions of innocent Iraqi and Afghan civilians and have died at the hands of the United States in it's preemptive illegal... more

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'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush

GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition.

"We will do to you what we did to the Russians," the insurgent's leader boasted over the radio, referring to the failure of Soviet troops to capture Ganjgal during the 1979-89 Soviet occupation.

Dashing from boulder to boulder, diving into trenches and ducking behind stone walls as the insurgents maneuvered to outflank us, we waited more than an hour for U.S. helicopters to arrive, despite earlier assurances that air cover would be five minutes away.

U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes and tree lines — despite being told repeatedly that they weren't near the village.

"We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We've lost today," Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter's repeated demands for helicopters.

Four U.S. Marines were killed Tuesday, the most U.S. service members assigned as trainers to the Afghan National Army to be lost in a single incident since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Eight Afghan troops and police and the Marine commander's Afghan interpreter also died in the ambush and the subsequent battle that raged from dawn until 2 p.m. around this remote hamlet in eastern Kunar province, close to the Pakistan border.

Three Americans and 19 Afghans were wounded, and U.S. forces later recovered the bodies of two insurgents, although they believe more were killed.

The Marines were cut down as they sought cover in a trench at the base of the village's first layer cake-style stone house. Much of their ammunition was gone. One Marine was bending over a second, tending his wounds, when both were killed, said Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer, 21, of Greensburg, Ky., who retrieved their bodies.GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan... more