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The Lily-Pad Strategy: How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War
Since the u201cBlack Hawk Downu201d deaths in Somalia almost 20 years ago, weu2019ve heard little, if anything, about American military casualties in Africa. The growing number of patients arriving …
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Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and Gross National Pain
The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get …
Mad, Bad, Sad: What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers
PTSD is an epidemic among America's veterans.
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Killer Drone Attacks Illegal, Counterproductive
The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected militants; the Obama administration assassinates them. Both practices not only visit more hatred upon the United States; they are also illegal.
It Couldn’t Happen Here, It Does Happen There
After more than a decade of our most recent Afghan War, the Obama administration and the US military are clearly willing to hang out a temporary sign saying: 'Washington …
The New Obama Doctrine: A Six-Point Plan for Global War
What looks today like a formula for easy power projection that will further U.S. imperial interests on the cheap could soon prove to be an unmitigated disaster — one …
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What Happens When You Talk to the Public About Drones
The purpose of the 2012 Know Drones Tour is to do sidewalk public education, working with other groups to help generate a citizens movement to stop US drone attacks …
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Drone Kill List: Not News?
Depite the gravity of the issue, even the NYT can't make drone kill lists a media issue.
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The War Drones On…
The increasing toll taken by these robotic executioners is beginning to register with the public, after many years of automated death from above in our adventurist wars. Still, the …
Yes, Virginia, We Can Do Something About the Drone Strikes
There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that there's nothing we can do politically to stop the US government from killing innocent civilians with drone strikes.