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• Rethink Afghanistan: Worse Than Vietnam?

  June 11, 2010

  This week, the war in Afghanistan surpassed Vietnam to become the U.S.'s longest war, and there's no end in sight. Daniel Ellsberg has called it "Vietnamistan," comparing the determination to "win" against people who want to expel foreign invaders. Our friends at Brave New Films pulled together this clip looking back at our fight in Afghanistan and asking the question: when will it be clear that we need to get out?

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  • Brave New Films
  • Bush
  • cato
  • daniel ellsberg
  • exit strategy
  • Obama
  • Vietnam
  • war

• Bill Fletcher Jr., Bolivia's Water, BP and Afghanistan

  June 9, 2010

  "It was a Sister Souljah moment," says Bill Fletcher Jr. of Bill Clinton's support for Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in her primary battle against insurgent Bill Halter. Lincoln, of course, is one of the Democrats whose refusal to support the Employee Free Choice Act keeps labor from expanding its base. Labor came out for Bill Halter, but the party elites supported Lincoln and helped her keep her seat.

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  • bill clinton
  • bill fletcher jr.
  • Bill Halter
  • blanche lincoln
  • Bolivia
  • bp
  • Brave New Films
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  • carly fiorina
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  • daniel ellsberg
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  • efca
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  • environment
  • Evo Morales
  • exit strategy
  • f word
  • Green for All
  • gulf of mexico
  • jennifer utz
  • labor
  • meg whitman
  • Obama
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  • primaries
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  • tami woronoff
  • The F Word 0
  • Vietnam
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