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Militarism
Picking Up a $170 Billion Tab: How US Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet
David Vine decided to make sense of what garrisoning the planet means to our pocketbooks.
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Military Law Is to Law as Military Music Is to Music
Jeh Charles Johnson, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, on Friday admitted that murder by drone is not a form of law enforcement: "Some legal scholars …
The New York Times Waves Goodbye to Three Amigos of Militarism
Not every politician gets a warm and fuzzy retirement profile in the New York Times. But not every politician is Joe Lieberman.
Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones
Tragically, by firing drones into a nation that weu2019re not even at war with, weu2019re setting a dangerous moral precedent for the future of drone warfare.
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Syrian Government Cuts Off Internet Access
The Syrian government cut off the entire countries access to the internet on Thursday during fierce fighting in Damscus.
Obama Has Power but Risks Republican Wrath Gaining Mideast Peace
Like so many presidents before him, Obama is afraid to say or do anything in public that might be labeled as anti-Israel.
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The Obama Election: Lessons for a Political Movement
The election of 2012 was a mandate against US fascism and a window for the creation of a new movement.
How to Blockade a Military Base
We donu2019t need to wait for mass movements to emerge, we can take actions that make the most of small numbers.
Killer Robots: Human Rights Watch and Nobel Laureate Jody Williams Urge Ban on Modern Warfare’s Next Frontier
Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams is joining with Human Rights Watch to oppose the creation of killer robots - fully autonomous weapons that could select and engage targets without …
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General Petraeus Seduced Us, Too
Exposure of the realities of Petraeus' corporate alliances might lay bare how we have been carried into war by Western corporate power.