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U.S., NATO, and Afghan forces are gathering on the outskirts of Kandahar in Southern Afghanistan to prepare for the latest offensive in President Obama’s “surge” strategy. The troops plan to secure areas around Kandahar, which has recently witnessed a sudden increase in insurgent attacks. General David Petraeus has argued that if NATO’s counterinsurgency strikes work, they will …
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May
03
2010
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Bull Connor’s Repression
Back in the day on May 3rd, 1963, a civil rights demonstration during the Birmingham Campaign was violently repressed in Alabama. The activist effort of the Southern Christian Leadership sought to expose and challenge the segregationist system of the southern city. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow organizers launched “Project C” for ‘confrontation,’ …
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May
03
2010
“I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.” –- journalist and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison …
