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MoveOn Joins With Brave New Films to Oppose Afghanistan War

By | 09.29.09 | 5:33 pm

MoveOn.org, the progressive grassroots action group with five million members, today emailed their supporters to urge them to host a screening of Brave New Foundation’s “Rethink Afghanistan” film. BNF calls the film “a great way to start a dialogue that will help build the movement to end the More…

Blogger Critiques About Afghanistan Set to Intensify

By | 08.14.09 | 2:35 pm

I wrote last week about how some members of the Get Afghanistan Right coalition were working to support a blogger to write frequent critiques of the Afghanistan war. Today, they unveiled the lucky blogger. From a press release:

Brave New Foundation and The Seminal today announced the launch

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Feingold Set to Oppose Further Troop Boost for Afghanistan

By | 08.05.09 | 2:12 pm

If Gen. Stanley McChrystal proposes, as expected, an increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is “likely to oppose it,” the senator told TWI.

Feingold’s opposition to what would be the second U.S. troop increase in Afghanistan this year is the More…

Why Closing Gitmo Isn’t Enough

By | 11.14.08 | 6:01 am

At a call-in “town hall” meeting tonight, the American Civil Liberties Union reiterated its call for the new Obama administration to close the Guantanamo Bay prison on the president’s first day in office. With the help of the filmmaker Robert Greenwald, the ACLU is even distributing a short film More…