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Tomgram> Nick Turse> Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War: The Election Year Outsourcing that No One’s Talking About
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Tomorrow’s Blowback Today? Posted by Nick Turse at 9:08am, August 9, 2012 tomdispatch.com Only in America: It turns out that we’re the sole country on the planet where a majority of people (62%) are sunnily in favor of sending drones across the globe (and across the borders of other countries) to take out terrorists. According to Pew Research’s […]
Tomgram> Tom Engelhardt> Chase Madar, Legal Atrocities
Tomgram> Tom Engelhardt> Chase Madar, Legal Atrocities April 15, 2012 TomDispatch Chase Madar’s article, What the Laws of War Allow> Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes> Or the Poverty of International Law? is posted separately on WAMMToday. Of course, it wasn’t Barack Obama’s fault. He didn’t nominate himself for the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Andrew Bacevich> Scoring the Global War on Terror> From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds
Scoring the Global War on Terror From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair. Andrew Bacevich February 19, 2012 TomDispatch.com With the United […]
Nick Turse> 450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet> The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet> The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops By Nick Turse February 12, 2012 Tom Dispatch In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. The American […]
Tom Dispatch> Offshore Everywhere How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It
A project of The Nation Institute Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door Posted by Tom Engelhardt February 5, 2012 TomDispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Just a reminder for those planning their week: Jeremy Scahill, one of the best investigative journalists in the business, and I will be talking together on stage at New York University’s […]
Tom Engelhardt> Tomgram> Iran Through the Looking Glass
Tomgram: Iran Through the Looking Glass By Tom Engelhardt January 29, 2012 Tom Dispatch Iranian Aircraft Carriers in the Gulf of Mexico It Can’t Happen Here Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S. (Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian […]
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