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From Fallujah to the San Fernando Valley, Police Use Analytics to Target “High-Crime” Areas
Police are now crunching crime statistics to divine when and where future crimes are most likely to occur, a method seen by some as an expansion of a militarization …
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William Blum Discusses America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Foreign policy commentator and author William Blum discusses his latest book, “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy, The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else,” the real threat to US …
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Drones Abroad and at Home: Why We Should Care
Weaponized unmanned drone aircraft, the Predator, the Reaper, the Global Hawk, have no crew on board. Hence no head, no heart. These drones are amoral robots exquisitely designed to …
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Can America Afford to Bring Home the Employee Army?
What happens when a war ends and an army comes home? It's been a vexing problem for centuries. Now the United States faces the problem again.
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Pentagon Calls Climate Change Impacts “Threat Multipliers,” Could Enable Terrorism
The U.S. Department of Defense released a report declaring the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerability that could enable further terrorist activity.
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A Militarism We Call Patriotism
At least two recent State of the Union speeches reflect a dangerous, creeping American militarism for which we are all culpable.
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Genghis Christ, General Boykin, and the Fundamentalist Christian Holy War
It is absolutely critical to understand and fully internalize that Boykin is far from alone in his nightmarish conception of the Prince of Peace's (mainstream) redeeming message.
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Possible New Cold War? High-Fives in the Halls of the Pentagon
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has given the Department of Defense a possible reprieve from American citizens' war-weary thoughts.
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Psychology Association’s Torture Link Fails “Do-No-Harm” Ethics
Two psychologists deplore the decision by the American Psychological Association to continue to condone the profession's involvement in prisoner abuse at Guantanamo.
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Hair-Trigger America
A nation that used to espouse isolationism has morphed into one poised for hair-trigger pre-emptive war.