In speech, Paul backs Wikileaks, criticizes U.S. war policy

Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) delivered a strong anti-war message at an appearance Saturday in Des Moines, praising whistle blowers like WikiLeaks, questioning the use of drone missile strikes and calling for more information going out to citizens before the military intervenes overseas.

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Human Rights Watch says Vietman using US AIDS funds to run forced labor camps

Human Rights Watch has released a report which alleges the U.S. government’s President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funds are being used by the government of Vietnam to run forced labor camps.
The report says that hundreds of thousands of drug addicts have passed through forced treatment facilities More…

Amid Cost Concerns, Senators Debate Adding New Diseases for Agent Orange Compensation

Though the last U.S. troops left Vietnam in 1973, many veterans still live with the war. And at a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Thursday at the U.S. Capitol, senators expressed concerns for everything from oversight to deficit spending in the discussion over whether to allow three new conditions to More…

Lieberman Remains Undecided as Blumenthal Maintains Lead in Connecticut Senate Race

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told Politico today that he remains undecided on who he will support in the race for the state’s open Senate seat, even as a new poll showed his erstwhile party’s candidate leading substantially despite a recent Vietnam service flap.

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CNN Poll: 52 Percent Say Afghanistan Is ‘Another Vietnam’

CNN has just released a poll that found 52 percent of Americans, according to a new CNN poll, say Afghanistan has turned into “a situation like the U.S. faced in the Vietnam War.” More than two-thirds of respondents said Afghanistan probably won’t have a stable government within More…

DOJ Advice on Sleep Deprivation Varied Widely

Among the many revelations in the CIA inspector general’s report released last week is this curious fact: the CIA did not have a coherent or consistent policy about the use and legality of sleep deprivation as an interrogation tactic. And it was More…

Vietnam in Afghanistan: Now an Unpopular War

A new CNN poll has found, for what I think is the first time, a majority of Americans opposed to the war in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials and Afghanistan-watchers have thought for months that this moment was inevitable: public support for Afghanistan, those people thought, was broad mostly because of More…

Donald Rumsfeld Now Officially Worst Secretary of Defense Alive

RIP, Robert McNamara. Nothing you ever did after Vietnam zeroed the balance. So when will Errol Morris make his Rumsfeld documentary?