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  • How would you feel about the U.S. maintaining a military presence in Afghanistan for decades? Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 2:07AM(PHOTO CREDIT: MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images) FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty: As the calls for a quicker U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan get louder in Washington, an interesting story appeared in the British paper, The Guardian. The paper reports that U.S. and Afghan officials are in secret talks over a long-term security partnership between the two nations. If [...]
  • Mitt Fits: GOP Officially Has a Front-runner Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 9:55AMBusiness candidate sees a bounce in 2012 polls Bad economy weakens White House on debt deal Obama racing the clock on Libya war Health Insurance Agonistes CW Watch: Afghanistan
  • Bin Laden fallout: How Abbottabad tweets reveal changes in modern warfare Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 11:55AMFrom the irate Pakistani tweeting about helicopter noise in the nighttime sky over Abbottabad to President Obama's globally streamed announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, social media is transforming military operations and their aftermath in today’s highly interconnected world.
  • Navy SEALs, 'Quiet Professionals,' Got Bin Laden Wednesday, May 4, 2011 @ 8:26AMThere's no doubt an allegiance to secrecy played a critical role in maintaining the surprise factor necessary for success in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
  • Navy SEALS, 'quiet pros', got bin Laden Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 7:53PMThe elite Navy SEAL team who got Osama bin Laden are soldiers with years of sensitive mission experience. The Navy SEALS live by one rule above all: keep what you do quiet.
  • Navy SEALs, the 'quiet professionals,' got bin Laden Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 7:53PMNavy SEALs live by an unspoken code.
  • Osama bin Laden killed: the first day, as it happened Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 1:21AMBarack Obama says 'the world is a safer place' after al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan, just 800 yards from the country's 'Sandhurst' military training college.
  • America reacts to killing of bin Laden: Click to watch Barack Obama's speech, fires burn at raided compound (with map) Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 10:33AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday. A small team of...
  • The world's most wanted man Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 9:30AMOn April 17, 1987, Soviet Spetsnatz troops launched a week-long attack against a fortified cave compound in Afghanistan, near a town called Jaji, run by a quietly spoken Saudi Arabian.
  • Osama bin Laden Is Dead Sunday, May 1, 2011 @ 10:12PMArchitect of 9/11 terror killed by U.S. forces after a firefight in Pakistan Warning: include(./morsels.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/httpd/html/pheedo.com/templates/english/feeds/v13/1.php on line 8 Warning: include(): Failed opening './morsels.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/httpd/html/pheedo.com/PEAR:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/httpd ...
  • CNN Wire Overnight Outlook Thursday, April 28, 2011 @ 2:15AMSupervising News Editor Ed Payne -- 404-827-1401
  • POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Friday, April 8, 2011 Friday, April 8, 2011 @ 4:22AMThe CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world....
  • 70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced Thursday, March 31, 2011 @ 12:10PMTV honorees include "The Good Wife," "Justified," "Temple Grandin" and "Degrassi: The Next Generation."
  • 70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced Thursday, March 31, 2011 @ 11:47AMATHENS, Ga., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A record 39 recipients of the 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2010, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia campus.
  • Libya as it happened: March 29 Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 1:05AMLeaders from across the world met in London to lay out Libya's post-Gaddafi future as the Libyan leader's forces launched another offensive against rebels.
  • Obama’s War Thursday, March 24, 2011 @ 12:04AMDespite five days of pounding from Tomahawk cruise missiles, bombs and attacks by coalition airplanes seeking to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s military ground capacity has suffered only minor setbacks. Troops loyal to Gaddafi, particularly along the western coastline, continue to fire on rebels who maintain an eastern stronghold in Benghazi.
  • Libya revolt as it happened: Tuesday Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 7:16PMMinute-by-minute coverage of events after the United Nations approved a no-fly zone over Libya.
  • Coalition cruise missiles punish Gadhafi regime Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 10:55AMAmerican military officials estimate that UN-backed airstrikes have wiped out half of Libya's air defence capabilities, which will severely limit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's options in his grinding war with rebel troops who are pushing for his ouster.
  • Coalition to accelerate attacks on ground troops Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 10:55AMMoammar Gadhafi's snipers and tanks are attacking civilians in Libya's third-largest city, leading the commander of the coalition enforcing a no-fly zone to say Tuesday that attacks on ground forces will accelerate in the "coming hours and days."
  • Thai-ASEAN News Network Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 12:23AMLibya: Obama's Iraq moment? Tel Aviv United States President Barack Obama is in a major predicament over Libya.
  • Libya as it happened March 20 Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 2:08AMHere is a summary of the events in Libya on March 20, at the start of the Western-led offensive.
  • Top U.S. military officer: Gadhafi could cling to power Sunday, March 20, 2011 @ 11:29AMWashington— The U.S.-led international military assault on Libya could achieve its stated goals without forcing Moammar Gadhafi from power, the top U.S. military officer said today as the bombing campaign continued.
  • Libya uprising continues – live updates Sunday, March 6, 2011 @ 4:03PM• Rebels say they have held oil export terminal Brega • US warships approach Libya • Gaddafi vows to fight to the last man and woman • Click here for a summary of key points today 6.57pm: The US is a "long way" off deciding whether to impose a no-fly zone in Libya, Hillary Clinton has told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. US officials are also concerned about "Libya descending into chaos ...
  • Conditions in Libya deteriorating Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 3:16PMUN "extremely concerned" about humanitarian situation in west, amid fears of diminishing medicine supplies in east.
  • Live! Mubarak to be questioned over corruption Wednesday, March 2, 2011 @ 11:39PMA lovely story of hope and life from the sun.co.uk. A baby girl who was born dead miraculously survived after doctors froze her for three days. Stillborn Ella Anderson bled to death in the womb.
  • POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ 3:37AMThe CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world....
  • Latest: Libya 'on brink of civil war' as bloodshed spreads Sunday, February 20, 2011 @ 10:54PMPROTESTERS preparing to march on Gaddafi's compound amid reports of violent clashes with army. Live updates
  • Museum seeks to partner with city for visitor's center Friday, January 21, 2011 @ 12:34AMCLEARLAKE -- Children s Museum of Art and Science (CMAS) is looking to partner with the City of Clearlake and other entities to bring a visitor s center to Highlands Park.
  • Desert Storm: Live Reports Bring Sound Of War Home Saturday, January 15, 2011 @ 10:09PMStory on TV coverage of Desert Storm from the Jan. 17, 1991 edition of the Richmond News Leader.
  • New Afghan War Plan: 'Awe and Shock' Friday, November 19, 2010 @ 10:21AMThe unconventional conflict in Afghanistan is looking surprisingly conventional, now that the U.S. is using Cold War-era tanks in Helmand province. Military leaders say “the tanks bring awe, shock and firepower.” Because Shock and Awe always, always works.
  • Media war: WikiLeaks v The Pentagon Monday, October 25, 2010 @ 8:27AMAnalysing the media coverage of the latest WikiLeaks release reveals some interesting insights.
  • Iraq secret files detail shadow war between US, Iran Sunday, October 24, 2010 @ 11:53PMWashington (AFP) Oct 22, 2010 Secret US files released on Friday show Iran waging a shadow war with US troops in Iraq, with a firefight erupting on the border and Tehran allegedly using militias to kill and kidnap American soldiers. The military intelligence reports on Iran's role, released by WikiLeaks and posted by The New York Times and the Guardian, provide details of a dangerous contest for ...
  • Barack Obama on the end of US combat missions in Iraq Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:01PM• Obama urges Americans to 'turn the page' on Iraq • 'Patriots supported this war and patriots opposed it' • Swift change in focus from Iraq to state of US economy Preamble: Tonight, President Obama addresses the American people to mark the historic moment that occurred earlier today: the official end of US combat missions in Iraq. In case you were wondering, President Obama will not be speaking ...
  • 'Afghan village' in British countryside is training ground for elite troops Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:56AMIn April this year I embedded with the elite soldiers of the 2nd Battalion British Parachute Regiment at their training facility in Thetford, United Kingdom. We went there to film the British army's much-talked-about, multimillion pound "replica Afghanistan village." The focus of the piece was to be on the younger members of the battalion. Some of them are as young as 18 and only months away ...
  • Thai-ASEAN News Network Sunday, August 8, 2010 @ 11:08PMWhose Hands? Whose Blood? Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at a news conference last week.
  • Bloody Hands and Moral Culpability Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 5:39AMIn almost nine years of futile and brutal war in Afghanistan and more than seven years of the same in Iraq, the United States has filled metaphorical tower upon tower with the exceedingly unmetaphorical bodies of civilian innocents, via air attacks, checkpoint shootings, night raids, artillery and missile fire, and in some cases, the direct act of murder.
  • Whose hands? Whose blood? Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 4:48AMConsider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at a news conference last week.
  • Tom Engelhardt: Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 1:06PMIf blowback comes to the United States, and the first suicide drones arrive, everyone will be deeply puzzled and angered, but one thing is certain, we will not consider any damage done to our society "collateral" damage.
  • Ed Koch: An Overriding November Election Issue: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 5:08PMAugust 2, 2010 Immigration is the issue that will dominate the November elections. On one side of this contentious issue are those who believe as...
  • Six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 3:31PMSix U.S. service members were killed in southern Afghanistan in the past two days, the NATO-led command said, making the death toll in July the deadliest month for American forces since the war in Afghanistan started nine years ago.
  • POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:27AMThe CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. WASHINGTON/POLITICAL For the latest political news: www.CNNPolitics.com CNN: Obama blasts GOP opposition to campaign finance bill President Barack Obama on Monday criticized Republican opposition to a Senate campaign finance bill, calling it partisan ...
  • Leaked reports describe Afghan war, sometimes in mundane detail Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 10:00PMJournalists and other observers around the world spent Monday poring over a vast cache of documents a whistleblower website says are U.S. reports that exhaustively chronicle the twists, turns and horror of the 9-year-old war in Afghanistan.
  • Top Scoops Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 4:28PMDistribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire Sign up for the wire at: http://www.unansweredquestions.org/headlines.php Unanswered Questions : Thinking for ourselves.
  • Project Censored: The top 10 stories not brought to you by mainstream news media in 2009 Friday, March 26, 2010 @ 11:24PMPeter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he's finished with reform. It's impossible, he said in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy.
  • China chides U.S. on rights record Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 5:23AMThe Chinese government responded March 12 to the release of a U.S. human rights report critical of China by issuing its own report criticizing the U.S. human rights record. The report covered issues relating to crime, racial discrimination and poverty and accused the U.S. of using its hegemonic power to continue “trampling” on the sovereignty of other countries while “posing as the world judge ...
  • THE 2010 SRI LANKAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND BEYOND (OPINION) Monday, January 25, 2010 @ 7:13AMIn the scores of talks, interviews, and meetings, that I have been involved in over the past four decades, on the problems facing the Sri Lankan Tamils (and the Plantation Tamils) in Sri Lanka, I have rarely been asked absurd questions. This has changed.
  • Former SEAL killed in suicide attack worked for Xe Tuesday, January 5, 2010 @ 8:52PMVIRGINIA BEACH Jeremy Wise, the former Navy SEAL killed in a suicide bomber's attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan last week, was working for Xe, the Moyock, N.C.-based security company previously known as Blackwater. Wise's Xe affiliation is disclosed in an obituary published in today's Virginian-Pilot.
  • UPI NewsTrack TopNews Wednesday, December 30, 2009 @ 7:18AMNews from United Press International, around the world around the clock ...
  • What did you miss this year? Here's a look Tuesday, December 22, 2009 @ 11:32AMPeter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he's finished with reform. It's impossible, he said in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy.
  • Censored! Top 10 News Stories Ignored by the Mainstream Wednesday, December 2, 2009 @ 7:25PMPeter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says it's impossible, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy.