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Fox News hosted a series of discredited anti-Islam activists to smear Muslims during Fox’s coverage of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Frank Gaffney  Frank Gaffney On Fox News: FBI Cooperation With Muslim Communities Weakens National Security. In an April 20 appearance on Fox & Friends Saturday , the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney claimed that the FBI was not being “allowed to look for jihad” and criticized its cooperation with the American Muslim community when looking for terrorism threats: GAFFNEY: The FBI, we’re hearing a lot about how they investigated, or at least talked to one of these brothers.

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The military has begun a transition to efficient and renewable energy. The Army is proceeding with its “ Net Zero Energy ” initiative, which means that they will aim to produce as much energy (and water, and waste) as they use. Cost and reliability are the primary reasons, but cutting carbon pollution is one of the outcomes. Last month, the head of U.S

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Fox News is deep in an ethics quagmire following a Washington Post report that the network’s CEO Roger Ailes used Fox News analyst K.T. McFarland to try to recruit Gen.

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Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed that during the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, CIA operatives were ordered to stand down instead of aiding those under attack. But Dobbs did not mention that the CIA has denied that its operatives were told not to help those in need — despite the fact that Fox itself had reported the denial.

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To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. I used to be a serious Republican, moderate and business-oriented, who planned for a public-service career in Republican politics.  But I am a Republican no longer.

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Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Mitt Romney campaign co-chair and former Wisconsin governor Tim Pawlenty told Foreign Policy Magazine that he would support Congress authorizing war with Iran. Elliot Abrams , a former Bush administration official and now top foreign policy adviser to GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, floated this idea last week and Pawlenty said it might be “a good idea.” “I don’t know that it would be dispositive, but it couldn’t hurt and it probably would help,” he said

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Alan Dershowitz In a new Jerusalem Post column, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz declares that the progressive pro-Israel group J Street, by highlighting statements by Israeli defense officials regarding the potential consequences of a strike on Iran, “ is now making it more likely that Israel and/or the United States will have no choice but to take military action against Iran’s nuclear weapons program”: In its most recent mass emailing, Jeremy Ben- Ami, J Street’s leader, urges his followers to undercut the Obama policy by demanding that the president stop threatening military action against Iran and that “the drums of war” must be silenced.

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By Roger Burbach and Marc Becker, via New America Media, August 20, 2012 “How could they expect us to yield to their threats or cower before them? My friends, they don’t know who they are dealing with.” read more

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Tom Engelhardt A war and occupation thousands of miles away that lasted seven years and involved more than 1.5 million Americans, military and civilian, has passed into the history books and yet we still know remarkably little about so much of it.  Take American military bases in Iraq.  There were, of course, none in March 2003 when the Bush administration launched its regime-change invasion with

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