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• Restoring the Culture War: The Attack on Ahmed Sharif

  September 2, 2010

  Fear-mongering and Islamophobia have returned to the headlines and the TV stations in the U.S., and recently here in New York a cab driver, Ahmed Sharif, was violently attacked by a passenger who asked if he was Muslim. Nine years after 9/11, why are the culture wars once again an issue for the Right?

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• Bill Fletcher, Jr., Attack on Ahmed Sharif, and New Voters

  September 1, 2010

  President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and handled wrong from the start.

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