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