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today in history, october 19, 1781: british troops under cornwallis

The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as “Black Monday.” . 2001 . U.S. special forces began operations on the ground in Afghanistan,..

tulsi gabbard's anti-war foreign policy

Candidate Trump raged about trillions of dollars poured down a black hole of waste, fraud, and abuse for endless wars. . As president, he escalated inherited wars of aggression on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen — on the phony pretext of combating the scourge of ISIS the US created and..

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Similarly, the ICC’s position should be that all the rest of America’s war crimes sprang from its first aggression against Afghanistan.  . This should include the extraordinary renditions; the acts of torture at Guantánamo, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, and CIA black sites..

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obama’s samantha power problem: crossing the red line

Some have speculated that the president is reluctant to get involved in a conflict in another Muslim country after Iraq and Afghanistan. Or perhaps Obama remembers what happened in 1993 in Mogadishu, the infamous Black Hawk Down mission. . ..

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