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The Obama Administration is losing the Afghan war by losing the Minds and Hearts of the Pakistanis

One year after a CIA contractor shot to death two Pakistanis, relatives of the victims are living off generous compensation they received in a deal that led authorities to free the American. "Pakistani rulers are puppets of America," said Malik Waqar, who demonstrated with d …

BREAKING: US marine pleads guilty of "negilgence" over Haditha killings of 34 civilians: faces maximum sentence up to three months...

"Staff Sergeant Wuterich accepted responsibility ...

Officials: US kills British insurgent in Somalia with drone strike

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A U.S. drone strike killed a British al-Qaida official fighting alongside insurgents in Somalia, officials said.

The Near Certainty of Obama being a One Term President--Based on Polls, the Loss of his Base, and the Tremendous Disappointment of his Presidency (Poll Included)

The odds are that Obama will lose the next election.  I know the professional gamblers currently are putting the odds in Obama's favor.  If you know how these odds are generated, you will also realize that the relatively small number of bets in favor of Obama winning w …

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Global War Series Part IV - Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War

As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension.

The Fire Hose of Your Tax Money Gushing to Iraq, Afganistan and Libya Begins to Explain our own Economic Meltdown

When we tally up the price tags for Iraq ($1 trillion and counting, as we leave 5,000 highly paid contractors behind), Afghanistan ($500 billion and counting) and, lately, Libya ($1.1 billion just on Department of Defense [DoD] armaments, not counting State Department secu …

The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What 70 downed drones tell us about the new American way of war, its brutality and its surging costs. | | AlterNet

The largely covert, yet highly touted war-fighting, assassination, and spy program involving armed robots is significantly less reliable than previously acknowledged.  These planes, the latest wonder weapons in the U.S.

We're all guilty of dehumanizing the enemy

By Sebastian Junger - The video that emerged in recent days appearing to show four U.S. Marines urinating on several dead Taliban fighters has outraged many people in this country.

CNN contributor salutes Marines for urinating on dead Afghans

The video of American marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan civilians has prompted worldwide outrage, condemnation from the White House and the opening of a federal investigation. CNN's Dana Loesch thinks the whole thing is pretty cool, though.

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