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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

The Terror Con

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa

Greenland's Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It's on Again

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Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
By Marjorie Cohn

Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

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Serena Williams Walks Back ‘Insensitive’ Steubenville Rape Comments

FBI Confirms Drone Use Over U.S. Soil

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Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

U.S. and Taliban Announce Direct Negotiations

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Supreme Court Warning

Rachel Maddow Gives Emotional Tribute to Michael Hastings

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

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Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

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Tag: Targeted Assassinations

Scahill on Obama’s Admitted Killings of Americans

The Obama administration’s unprecedented acknowledgement that four Americans were killed in U.S. drone strikes overseas—including one whose death was not previously reported—“raises more questions than it answers,” Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation and author of the new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” told “Democracy Now!” on Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 READ MORE

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U.S. Admits Drones Killed 4 Americans

In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder formally acknowledged that four American citizens had been killed by U.S. drone strikes abroad, including al-Qaida-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

Posted on May 22, 2013 READ MORE

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Targeted Killings: A Legal History

By Bill Blum —

Assassinations have long been regarded as a basic element of foreign relations that largely remained in the dark, unspoken of but widely practiced in response to perceived threats to national security.

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 READ MORE

U.S. and Israel Push the Boundaries of International Law

By William Pfaff —

In 2009, the former head of the international law department of Israel’s military establishment, Daniel Reisner, said that “International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassination thesis and we had to push it.”

Posted on Feb 12, 2013 READ MORE

Chomsky on Human Rights, Communities of Dissent and More

Dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky sat down with “Democracy Now!” for an hourlong conversation about the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike, the relationships forged by Occupy Wall Street, Obama’s targeted assassinations, WikiLeaks’ whistle-blowing and Latin America’s gradual slip from U.S. dominance.