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Lawmaker wants military to promptly alert Congress ...
A leading House Republican said Wednesday that he ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
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Millions In 'Ghost Money' Paid To Afghanistan ...
The so-called "ghost money" was meant to buy ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
OPINION - All Media
The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya ...
The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are ...Posted by Pamela Hogle
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Lawmaker wants military to promptly alert Congress about drone strikes
A leading House Republican said Wednesday that he wants to require the U.S. military to “promptly” inform ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
China tests its borders again, this time in the mountains
India is alleging a Chinese border incursion in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, putting diplomatic pressure on an ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Study: Iraq, Afghan war costs to top $4 trillion
The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers between $4 trillion to $6 trillion, taking into account ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Pakistan's rulers under fire after Quetta bombing
Attack on market by Sunni extremists deepens Shia suspicions that intelligence forces are turning a blind eye to ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Trumpeting technological strength, Iran releases video it says is from downed US drone
The release of the video comes as Iran showcases a slew of scientific and technological advances to herald the ...Posted by Pamela Hogle
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Millions In 'Ghost Money' Paid To Afghanistan President's Office, New York Times Reports
The so-called "ghost money" was meant to buy influence for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but instead ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
A Desperate Situation at Guantánamo: Over 130 Prisoners on Hunger Strike, Dozens Being Force-Fed
Lawyers for the prisoners say more than 130 men are taking part in the hunger strike, which began in February. One ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
What America's Leaving Behind in Afghanistan: Trained Militias Accused of Rape and Murder
Despite some success in achieving security gains, the ALP program has been plagued by such problems as Taliban ...Posted by Tanya J. Maurer -
Afghan Girls School Poisoning: 74 Girls Poisoned in Suspected Taliban Gas Attack
Posted by Jack Powers
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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan
The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
How the CIA's Bags of Cash Undermined the Afghanistan War
It’s the most understandable, intuitive and tempting mistake in geopolitics: secretly pay a powerful foreigner to ...Posted by Jack Powers -
The C.I.A.’s Angry Birds
Over the winter, I heard military commanders and White House officials murmur in hushed tones about how they would ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
The President's Priorities
Debt in 2014 will hit 78.2% of the economy. President Obama is pitching his new budget proposal as a fiscal peace ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Pakistan’s Precipitous Decline
Nuclear arms, sectarian violence, a too-powerful military and dysfunctional institutions make for a dangerous mix.Posted by Pamela Hogle -
The law of war does not shield the CIA and John Brennan's drone kill list | Morris Davis
The US prosecuted Omar Khadr in Guantánamo for not being a lawful combatant. Exactly the same applies to the ...Posted by Ben Ross
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These Soldiers Did the Boston Marathon Wearing 40-Pound Packs. Then They Saved Lives.
Tough Ruck soldiers clearing a path to victims Military Friends Foundation More MoJo coverage of the 2013 Boston ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Afghanistan 2014: How the US will Lose Yet another fruitless War (Jones)
Ann Jones writes at Tomdispatch.com: Kabul, Afghanistan — Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what ...Posted by Randy Morrow -
Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley's New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare
(Multimedia) "We’re looking right now at a reality that President Obama has essentially extended the very policies that many ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
David Bromwich: Torture and Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty is a spy thriller about the tracking and killing of Osama Bin Laden. Good police work did it, the ...Posted by Randy Morrow
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