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President Obama at West Point, Courtesy Getty Images

Photo by AP/Charles Dharapak

There are those who suggest Afghanistan is another Vietnam. They argue that it cannot be stabilized and we’re better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. I believe this argument depends on a false reading of history.
—President Obama, at West Point outlining his Afghanistan decision

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Amani Alfarra is from Gaza, currently studying for her PhD in hydrology in Germany. We met in May 2006, in Gaza, while she was writing a report for the United Nations about the water situation in Gaza. She needed photos so I toured the entire region with her. I’ve slightly edited her writing.
Jan 16, 2009 [...]

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To try my hand at answering some of Bill Moyer’s questions to Grace Lee Boggs (she did an excellent job in her interview on the Bill Moyers Journal, August 31, 2007):
Could Martin Luther King Jr have been more radical?
He departed from organizing the Poor People’s Campaign to support the Memphis sanitation workers, an act of [...]

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