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Dick Morris: Media ‘ruined’ Bush because Iraq war coverage was ‘too harsh’

By David Edwards Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:30 EDT Conservative Fox News... more

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US press sell-out on Iraq war

A detailed account on how the U.S. press completely soldout on the Iraq war.... more

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“Welcome Home: The Story of Scott Ostrom” Awarded 2012 Pulitzer Prize

On April 16, 2012, “Denver Post” photographer Craig Walker was awarded his... more

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Women in military face unreported hardships in Iraq and Afghanistan wars

More than 150 American women have been killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but... more

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Fox News host: Dems ‘invented’ war on women because ‘stimulus didn’t work’

By David Edwards Monday, April 9, 2012 12:15 EDT One Fox News host on Monday... more

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Videos Show Blackwater Guards Running Down Woman in Iraq

Harper’s Magazine has posted online a number of videos purportedly showing... more

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Man Whose WMD Lies Led To 100,000 Deaths Confesses All

A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a... more

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Nine Years Ago Today The Iraq War Began -- Shock & Awe Then, Shock & Awe Now . . . ~ They Will Say ANYTHING!

What a difference nine years makes

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What The F#@k Is Up With Gas Prices?

Around the world, the price of fuel seems to be going up everyday. The main reason for... more

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Welcome Home, Soldier: The Story of Scott Ostrom

Update: "Welcome Home" has been named a winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize!... more

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Voice in the Wilderness: Lives and Money Will Be Saved When Hillary Clinton Leaves Office.

Hillary, check your passport, it should say American. However, you fight harder for... more

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Golden Globe Awards to Honor 1 Million Dead Iraqis

HOLLYWOOD, CA-- The 2012 Golden Globe Awards this Sunday will take a moment to honor... more

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WHACKO-TV NEWSPAPER ROLL TIDE

Everyone is talking about the protester; winner of the man of the year in Time... more

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Christopher Hitchens Has Died | Obits, Musings, Photos, Videos

Washington Post... . Christopher Hitchens dies; Vanity Fair writer was a... more

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Iraq celebrates U.S. withdrawal

Iraqis burned American flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of the... more

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Remembering Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011

The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from esophageal cancer at the age of 62, ended one of the greater intellectual careers of the last 40 years. Born in Portsmouth, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Hitchens started his career as a Trotskyite at “The New Statesman,” working along with noted authors, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan, who would become his lifelong friends. In the early 1980s, he moved to the United States, becoming a citizen in 2007, and began working for liberal magazine “The Nation,” writing some of his earliest attacks on the conservative government and American foreign policy.

A prolific author, Hitchens left behind a massive body of critical writing, with more than a dozen books and hundreds of essays targeting everyone from the British Monarchy to Bill Clinton to George Orwell to God, usually with wit and more often than not, vicious and cutting remarks. Even those who hated his politics could not help but admire his skill as a writer and ability to craft a sharp turn of phrase, and many called him a friend.

Perhaps his most famous book was “The Missionary Position,” a scathing attack on Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity church, an organization that he called a cult. Hitchens described Mother Teresa as a “fraud” and accused her of glorifying poverty to enrich herself and the Catholic church, rather than truly helping the poor. The book infuriated Roman Catholics around the world, as well as politicians and celebrities who he claimed had used the charity and her reputation to mask their own evil deeds.

A later work, “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” accused the former Secretary of State of “war crimes,” and argued that Kissinger should be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture” for his involvement in atrocities in Southeast Asia and Central America. As a critic of the Bush administration’s use of torture, Hitchens filmed himself being waterboarded to demonstrate the cruelty of the practice. Hitchens claimed that, “The official lie about this treatment … is that it 'simulates' the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning.”

Hitchens had an enviable career arc that began with his own brand of fiery journalism at Britain’s “New Statesman” and then made its way to America, where he wrote for everyone from “The Atlantic” and “Harper’s” to “Slate and “The New York Times Book Review.” He was a legend on the speakers’ circuit, could debate just about anyone on anything and won innumerable awards.

Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, a troublemaker and was a gift, if it dare be said, from God.

This piece includes color photographs, a photo-gallery and two documentary short films.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/remembering-christopher-hitchens-1949-2011/The death of Christopher Hitchens on Thursday night, of complications from... more

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The Iraq War Ends

"You will leave with great pride - lasting pride-secure in knowing that your... more

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McCain on Iraq withdrawal: ‘We risk losing everything that we gained’

By David Edwards Thursday, December 15, 2011 For Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the end... more

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Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq

I am not sure which is worse, that justice never took with the investigation or that... more

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US President Barack Obama has marked the end of the Iraq war with a speech at Fort Bragg

President Barack Obama: "You have shown why the US military is the fighting force... more

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