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Protect our rights. Don’t exercise ‘em!

November 7, 2008 – 12:02 pm

From NY Times’s Keep Your Euphoria to Yourself, Soldier: “In a stroke of self-satire, Pentagon officials tried to block Stars and Stripes — the military’s respected independent newspaper — from covering the troops’ plain and honest reactions to the election night news about their new commander in chief. The Department of Defense once again made [...]

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The Roman Empire Had 37

September 11, 2008 – 01:34 pm

From Mother Jones’s Mission Creep: America’s Unwelcome Advances: “According to the Pentagon’s 2008 ‘Base Structure Report,’…the United States maintains 761 active military ’sites’ in foreign countries…Counting domestic military bases and those on US territories, the total is 5,429….[G]iven that there are only 192 countries in the United Nations, 761 foreign bases is a remarkable example [...]

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What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?

September 25, 2007 – 10:31 am

From the Washington Post’s Grim Accounting: What Defines a Killing as Sectarian? “On Sept. 1, the bullet-riddled bodies of four Iraqi men were found on a Baghdad street. Two days later, a single dead man, with one bullet in his head, was found on a different street. According to the U.S. military in Iraq, the [...]

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