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The “Hancock 38” Put the Robotic Hunter/Killer Reaper Drone on Trial
Ed Kinane, Truthout "We still have a choice today: nonviolent co-existence or violent co-annihilation." -Martin Luther King Jr. ("Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence," speech at Riverside …
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The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America
The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill.
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Heads Up, Supercommittee: Here’s How to Cut Billions From Overpriced Weapons
If the Department of Defense was required to do real "should-cost" studies, the historical overpricing would be obvious.
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Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot
Former Gen. Petraeus has long been eager to please the neoconservatives in Washington and their friends in Israel by creating "intelligence" to portray Iran and other target countries in …
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Iraq War Lessons Learned? Keep Rumsfeld Away From All Things Defense
The roots of how the military ended up with this expensive but broken logistics disaster can be placed directly on Rumsfeld and his build up before the war.
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The Threat of Warships on an “Island of World Peace”
Song Kang-ho, an activist opposing a naval base under construction, near the construction site, in Gangjeong village on Jeju Island, South Korea, August 2, 2011. (Photo: Jean Chung / …
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Not Since the War of 1812
The horrifying atrocities of September 11 are new in world affairs, not in their scale and character, but in the target.
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Counter-Memory and the Politics of Loss After 9/11
To address our collapsing intellectual and moral visions, we must reclaim and re-imagine those moments of compassion, social relations and democratic ideals that surfaced briefly after 9/11.
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After 9/11, Was War the Only Option?
Courtesy: The New York Times Syndicate. This is the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the …
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Was There an Alternative? Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later
The Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.