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By Jonathan Mahler
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AP/Google/Connie Zhou
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By Robert Scheer — The name of the game is threat inflation, and no one has been better at it than the folks at Booz Allen Hamilton, the inventors of the new boondoggle called cyberwarfare.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The journalist says the president takes a personal interest in dirty warfare. Also, the legality and privatization of mass surveillance.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The journalist says the president takes a personal interest in dirty warfare. Also, the legality and privatization of mass surveillance.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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White House/Chuck Kennedy
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By Joe Conason — Rather than hyping the terrorist threat, like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, President Obama has repeatedly framed a calmer—if equally resolute—attitude toward Islamist extremism.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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AP/Kin Cheung
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By Richard Reeves — In the matter of Edward Snowden, I have no opinion as to whether he is a hero, a traitor or just a self-celebrating fool. I do, however, think he is necessary and his timing is good.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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AP/Kin Cheung
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By Robert Scheer — Whistle-blower Edward Snowden worked for a private company that got 98 percent of its $5.8 billion last year from the taxpayers, who are the same folks being spied upon.
Posted on Jun 11, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 10, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on Jun 8, 2013
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AP/J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — What the Chinese have demonstrated is that in the modern world, to the conquerors do not go the spoils.
Posted on Jun 3, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on Jun 3, 2013
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Scientists are trying to construct military members who can fight without fatigue and thus be more efficient killing machines; a lot of Chinese students who hope to pursue higher education in the U.S. don’t speak enough English to do so; meanwhile, an organization named VIDA was formed to create awareness about gender bias in the literary world and it’s succeeding in making some publishers and reviewers uncomfortable. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 31, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 31, 2013
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
Did Washington just give Israel the green light for a future attack on Iran via an arms deal? Did Russia just signal its further support for Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime via an arms deal? Are the Russians, the Chinese, and the Americans all heightening regional tensions in Asia via arms deals?
Posted on May 30, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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DoD/MC1 Chad J. McNeeley
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By William Pfaff — China certainly is no military threat to the continental United States, or to its security, economy or major national interests.
Posted on May 28, 2013
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Dan Bennett (CC-BY-SA)
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The office of the Arizona senator has confirmed reports that he made a secret trip into war-torn Syria on Monday and met with rebels in that country for several hours.
Posted on May 27, 2013
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on May 27, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on May 27, 2013
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Columbus Dispatch —
Posted on May 26, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 26, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 26, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Nearly 12 years after it was first enacted, the Authorization for Use of Military Force remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations, to kill people with drone “signature strikes,” based not on guilt but on a remote analysis of a suspect’s “patterns of life.”
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By William Pfaff — The bombs that ended the Boston Marathon in April were planted by young Muslims who had come to the United States as immigrants, rejected America as a civilization, and then attacked it, leaving behind a message of religious war.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Susan Zakin — It’s likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was just another angry young man in our brave new America, a burgeoning dystopia where mass murder suddenly seems like a weekly occurrence.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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AP/Ivan Sekretarev
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By Juan Cole — Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has Russia asserted itself so forcefully beyond its borders.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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AP/Don Ryan
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By Joe Conason — Having served in Congress for more than three decades—and in the upper chamber since 1996—Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate’s more serious and diligent members.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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U.S. Marine Corps./Gunnery Sgt. Michael Kropiewnicki
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By David Sirota — On June 30, 1973, a 24-year-old plumber’s apprentice became the last American forced into the armed services before the military draft expired.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on May 9, 2013
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U.S. Navy/MC2 Edwin L. Wriston
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By William Pfaff — The present debate in the United States over making policy for a Middle East that has been profoundly changed by the events of the past three years unhappily echoes past policies that failed.
Posted on May 7, 2013
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