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Perpetual War

From On October 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End? 

by Jeremy Scahill

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[This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.]

On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term [...]

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Jeremy Scahill: “no such thing as a clean war”

From On April 24, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by Jasmin Ramsey

Yesterday a Senate hearing was held on the Obama administration’s “targeted killing” program, which you can watch here. It resulted in headlines like this. To date, discussions about President Obama’s use of “kill lists” and assassinations of those deemed as threats to US national security have mostly ranged [...]

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Drone Wars: Tactics in search of a strategy

From On February 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

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by James A. Russell

The confirmation hearings of John Brennan for director of the Central Intelligence Agency serve as the latest searing reminder of the intellectual rigamortis gripping the national security establishment and how brain dead we have become as a country in addressing strategy and strategic issues.

The sole focus [...]

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David Petraeus and the Militarization of the CIA

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill injects some badly needed context into the media frenzy over David Petraeus’s CIA resignation by examining the four-star General’s legacy against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized intelligence agency:

As head of US Central Command in 2009, Petraeus issued execute orders that significantly broadened the ability [...]

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WaPo on the “disposition matrix,” the CIA’s next-generation kill list

From On October 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Washington Post‘s Greg Miller has begun a three-part series on the future of the Obama Administration’s counterterrorism drone strike program, which will include a “next-generation targeting list” (aka “kill list”) in the form of a “dipposition matrix”.

Though the White House, CIA, JSOC and ODNI declined comment requests, the article cites [...]

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The Terrorism Issue that Wasn’t Discussed

From On September 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Gareth Porter

In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al Qaeda. Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. [...]

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