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In the world of weaponry, they are the sexiest things around. Others countries are desperate to have them. Almost anyone who writes about them becomes a groupie. Reporters exploring their onrushing future swoon at their potentially wondrous techno-talents. [...]
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[Note to Readers: Who hasn’t received one -- or 100 -- of those “Nigerian” letters offering you, in florid prose, millions of potential dollars and with nary a catch in sight? But who knew that the highest officials in Washington have been receiving [...]
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
Washington’s Singular Accomplishment
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce.
And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can [...]
Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work
It Failed in Campaign 2010 and Will Do Worse in 2012
By Stephan Salisbury
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During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the [...]
Obama’s Bush-League World
Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone?
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
George W. who? I mean, the guy is so over. He turned the big six-five the other day and it was barely a footnote in the news. And [...]
The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama
Signs of the Great American Unraveling
By Tom Engelhardt
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It’s already gone, having barely outlasted its moment — just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much.
Okay, it was a little [...]
On the Mend?
America Comes to Its Senses
By Andrew J. Bacevich
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At periodic intervals, the American body politic has shown a marked susceptibility to messianic fevers. Whenever an especially acute attack occurs, a sort of delirium ensues, manifesting itself in delusions of grandeur and demented [...]
Siamese Twins Sharing the Same Brain
How the Military and the Civilian Are Blurring in Washington
By William J. Astore
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I have a fairy tale for you. Once upon a time, a representative democracy was established with a constitution that distilled the wisdom of the ages. Its [...]
Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?
How the President and the Pentagon Prop Up Both Middle Eastern Despots and American Arms Dealers
By Nick Turse
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If you follow the words, one Middle East comes into view; if you follow the weapons, [...]
The Crash and Burn of Old Regimes
Washington Court Culture and Its Endless Wars
By William J. Astore
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
The killing of Osama bin Laden, “a testament to the greatness of our country” according to President Obama, should not be allowed to obscure a central [...]
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