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Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…ary bases in the Green Zone, the dramatically named Forward Operating Base Freedom. But two weeks later the administration announced its plan to keep indefinitely the entire Camp Victory complex, which has five large bases in Baghdad, and Camp Prosperity and Camp Union III, which are located near the new American Embassy in the Green Zone. There are more announcements of this sort to come. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is already saying we will n…

The New Christianity: What the Mainstream Media Has Missed

By Bill Berkowitz

…of our stories about Palin and the NAR was reposted in its entirety on the Free Republic Web site, then a fight broke out between pro and anti-NAR site members. It was astounding! You produced over twenty stories and several videos on Palin. What are your plans for the future? The short answer is: books, longer and more ambitious articles, and even a full length video documentary or two. The New Apostolic movement relies heavily on visual media an…

The Quixotic Task of Debunking David Barton

By Paul Harvey

…hat he believed not in a “wall of separation” of church and state but in a Republic that would actively promote Christianity, that his sexual morality was unimpeachable, that he didn’t really edit out the miraculous stories of the New Testament, that he founded the Virginia Bible Society, and on and on. They find without fail that the claims fall into one of the following categories: 1) complete falsehoods (there are plenty of those); 2) mislead…

Religious Freedom Gets Hollywood Treatment

By Daniel Ramirez

…cided with the Congress’ hurried alteration to the Constitution to expland freedom of belief to include freedom of conscience, Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to the cristero stronghold of Guanajuato state, and a papal ﬂyover (in the presidential helicopter) around the Cristo Rey monument near León. (Mexicans go to the polls on July 1.) The U.S. also stands in need of the ﬁlm’s message right now, according to Barroso: “The movie is about conscience. No o…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…ions for incompatibilities or inherent opposition. I know a fair number of African Americans, Hispanics, and Muslims who once voted Republican. They no longer do—not because they disagree with the Republican Party, but because they feel it has no room for them. It seems opposed to their presence in America. A good number in the Muslim-majority world feel the same way about the place of Islam in the world: there is no room for it. It isn’t that the…

Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…h a startling brusqueness, a brusqueness that we find unacceptable, on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” Naturally enough, that is the quote that generated the controversy. Islam is designed to be spread through violence…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…eized Libya from the Ottomans, depriving that crumbling empire of its last African territory. Still, in many ways, the Libyan intervention appeared to solve many of the problems of previous interventions, or non-interventions. In Iraq, in 2003, we didn’t have a Security Council resolution and there was no imminent danger of mass slaughter. We waited for too long in Bosnia, and tens of thousands were slaughtered. UN peacekeepers could do nothing t…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…0% in this past year—unfortunately coinciding with the tenure of the first African-American president in US history. When Chip Berlet, one of this country’s best monitors of right-wing extremism, warned in a perceptive essay last week on RD that the hostile right-wing political climate in this country has created the groundwork for a demonic new form of violence and terrorism, I fear that he is correct. Christian Warrior, Sacred Battle Though thes…

Stephen Broden, Beck’s Black Robed Regiment In Action

By Sarah Posner

…ompany of the Mayflower Hotel, no less. Broden, who is one of thirty or so African-American Republicans running for Congress this year, is a pastor — yes, a pastor — supported by the Frederick Douglass Foundation, whose chair, Timothy Johnson (also vice-chair of the North Carolina Republican Party), has a violent criminal record. Broden is a tea party favorite who has spoken at tea party rallies and who claimed at Michele Bachmann’s Code Red rally…

Jose Antonio Vargas’ Coming Out and the Power of Stories over Religious Remonstrances

By Sarah Posner

…about race; Edwards said that frequently progressives speak “in their own code,” which “sends people away” rather than “draw[ing] them in.” She added, “I want to make sure we’re using language to draw people in who share the same concerns about declining jobs and opportunity.” Edwards was reacting to someone in the audience bringing up the term “white privilege;” Edwards, who is African-American, cautioned that when people of color use that termi…