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Electronic Frontier Foundation | Satphones, Syria,... →
On Monday night, Colvin appeared on CNN, telling Anderson Cooper that “the Syrian army is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians.” Responding to Syrian president Bashar Al Assad’s statement that he was not targeting civilians in the barrage of rocketfire raining on Homs, Colvin accused the regime of “murder” and said: “There are no military targets here…It’s a complete and utter lie that...
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“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices —...”
– Edward R. Murrow (via journolist)
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Which Pentagon Budget Numbers Are Real? You... →
When the Pentagon announced its 2013 budget last week, the press dutifully repoted the number, $525.4 billion, and Pentagon-watchers laughed.  We all knew it had next to nothing to do with real national security spending.  Luckily Winslow Wheeler — one of the most experienced and intelligent Pentagon-watchers around — ignored the press releases, dug into the budget and crunched the...
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Scoring the Global War on Terror, From Liberation...
From TomDispatch this morning: the anatomy of the never-ending Global War on Terror as an American disaster — Andrew Bacevich, “Scoring the Global War on Terror, From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds”  To listen to Timothy MacBain’s latest Tomcast audio interview in which Bacevich discusses the changing face of the Gobal War on Terror. In his latest TomDispatch post,...
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“If they really wanted to win here, they’d keep us here indefinitely”
– “Tom,” a 37-year-old U.S. Army Special Forces officer in Afghanistan from David Axe’s new piece at Danger Room, “U.S. Commandos in Afghanistan Face a New Battlefield: The Courtroom”
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