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When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism

My dad, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, was arrested by the FBI on trumped up charges, sending a chill through the local Muslim community. Yet we found support from unlikely allies.

How Obama’s targeted killings, leaks and the Everything-Is-Classified State have fused.

Barack Obama

Liberals raised a ruckus over Bush’s abuses. Let’s hold this president to the same standard.

US soldier in Afghanistan

The MSNBC host and Nation editor at large has always been a thoughtful and fair journalist. That includes how he conducted himself in the controversy around his Memorial Day show.

Under the guise of counterterrorism measures, the US continues to intervene in an ongoing ethnic civil war in Yemen.

Its ‘roadmap’ in tatters, the Pentagon takes a detour to Terminator Planet.

So now we have Rambo Obama, a steely warrior who hurls death-dealing drones at anyone who threatens the good old USA. Including children.

Blogs

Killing Hamas’s military leader is the latest in a long line of murders that has radicalized Palestinians. But maybe that's the point. 

November 20, 2012

Droney the predator drone doesn't understand sex scandals.

November 20, 2012

There were exactly two brief segments on this crisis, even as a building in Gaza housing MSNBC’s fellow journalists was struck.

November 20, 2012

Is the Israeli government’s preferred “solution” to the conflict really any different than the status quo?

November 19, 2012

As the number of civilian casualties mounts, our nation's “kill list” only grows longer. 

November 19, 2012

Some Israeli hawks are calling for the complete flattening of Gaza.

November 19, 2012

The White House better let Israel know, quietly, to stand down. And then work for a real ceasefire. Fast.

November 16, 2012

The media's blind veneration for the military figures led to its shellschocked response to David Petraeus's affair.

November 15, 2012

Now that the election is over, the US is freer to make peace with the Taliban.

November 15, 2012

Israel's air force assassinated Hamas leader Ahmad Jaabari. As the Israeli airstrikes continued today, seven more Palestinians were killed and at least 30 were injured, ten critically.

November 14, 2012
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