Drones are fool's gold: they prolong wars we can't win
• http://www.guardian.co, Simon JenkinsNew appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation
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New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation
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Ray McGovern (Retired CIA Analyst) on John Brennan (newly appointed CIA Director), Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense - Sheila Dean (Beat the Chip) provides an update on Biometric Internet Access.
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British military officials say one of their soldiers has been killed in Afghanistan by a suspected member of the Afghan National Army.
As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction
The Obama administration, having killed a 16-year-old American boy, refuses to explain why in court.
As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction
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But North Korea has offered olive branches before and Kim's speech does not necessarily signify a change in tack from a country which vilifies the United States and U.S. ally South Korea at every chance. Impoverished North Korea raised tensions i
Rebels in Central African Republic said they had halted their advance on the capital on Wednesday and agreed to start peace talks, averting a clash with regionally backed troops in the mineral-rich nation.
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...there are substantial costs associated with a nuclear-armed Iran. Increasing tension in the region could certainly add to the security premium on Gulf oil.
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Scott Horton (Scott Horton Radio) on Obama's foreign policy, war, and the future...
The intelligence agency GCHQ has dismissed claims that a coded message from the Second World War found tied to the remains of a pigeon in a chimney has been cracked.
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I can watch this version (and laugh!!!!) Watch it before it is pulled---I already downloaded it.
They are in Congress and in the leadership of corporations. They are psychopaths, they have goals you could not imagine, and sexual deviancy is high among them.
No, this ISN’T a fundraising letter; it’s a call to arms If you’ve been reading my column recently, you know I’ve been writing about Chuck Hagel, who is apparently the frontrunner to replace the evil Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense.
The UN Security Council has given the green light for the use of military force to combat Islamist terrorists in northern Mali. The Council said that the 3,300 troops will use “all necessary measures” to pacify the northern territories. All the pe
Numerous commentators have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens' deaths are perceived. What explains it?
"If the victims of Mr Obama's drone strikes are mentioned by the state at all, they are discussed in terms which suggest that they are less than human.
Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones.
Afghan father-of-four Mohammad Nasir has a secret he's been keeping from his family.
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The U.S. will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack, the Pentagon said Friday.
The US has been providing training to Syrian rebel fighters on the use of sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons in neighboring Jordan, as news of the US’s formal recognition of the Syrian Opposition Coalition.
Moscow has admitted the possibility that the Syrian opposition may emerge victorious as government forces continue to lose more territory as the conflict rages on, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said. “We must face the facts: the