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Barack Obama: Drone Warrior
A very strange story, that 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses
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Americans beg Obama: Please, don’t kill us with drones
Grace Bedell thought it could clinch the election when she suggested to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. Now a century and a half later, Americans are asking their president to consider an
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Terminator Planet: A Drone-Eat-Drone World
U.S. military documents tell the story vividly. In the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West Africa, an unmanned mini-submarine deployed from the USS Freedom detects an “anomaly”: another small remotely-operated sub
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Pentagon Issues Drone War Talking Points
It’s official: the U.S. drone war over Pakistan, Yemen and beyond really does exist. John Brennan, President Obama’s principal counterterrorism adviser, disclosed the government’s worst kept secret in a Washington speech last week. So
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US secretly frees high-level Afghan militants as bargaining chip – report
News has emerged that in order to reach a truce in the most restive Afghan provinces, the US has secretly released several dozen high-ranking Afghan militants. In exchange the US gets vague hopes that
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Pakistani parliament unanimously declares U.S. must stop drone strikes and violations of sovereignty
In a joint sitting of the Pakistani parliament on Thursday, the recommendations on the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) regarding new rules of engagement with the United States were unanimously adopted
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FBI Director “Isn’t Sure” Whether Americans Can Be Assassinated On U.S. Soil?
The Treason Clause of the U.S. Constitution specifically delineates what process should be taken when dealing with American citizens who are accused of becoming enemy combatants against their own country. This clause does
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Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill
Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing
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Principle vs. Populism: THE U.S.A.’S LAST CHANCE
The urgent lesson for this report, is, that, remarkably, some actually great U.S. Presidents have lived out the term of office for which they had been elected, often despite the British empire’s customarily vigilant
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Are we wrong about Pakistan?
When Peter Oborne first arrived in Pakistan, he expected a 'savage' back water scarred by terrorism. Years later, he describes the Pakistan that is barely documented - and that he came to fall in
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State Department Uses ‘Nuclear Option’ Propaganda to Justify More Preemptive War
Yesterday, the State Department "quietly" warned that Syria's nuclear weapons program "may still be in operation" and their other suspected WMDs threaten the region. In other words, the final push for another war
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US Pushed Ahead with Drone Strikes despite Pakistani Resistance
WASHINGTON: Shortly before the United States ended a two-month pause in missile strikes on militants in Pakistan last month, senior US officials telephoned their Pakistani counterparts and told them Washington would be resuming its
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Assassination Of Pope Warned Imminent As Vatican War Intensifies
A disturbing Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the warning letter delivered to Chinese State Authorities this past November by Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the Archbishop of Palermo, stating that Pope Benedict XVI [photo top
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The Road To Tehran Goes Through Damascus
Between the chaos and artillery fire unfolding in Homs and Damascus, the current siege against the Ba’athist State of Bashar al-Assad parallels events of nearly a century ago. In efforts to maintain its protectorate,
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US Admiral warns Iran: We are ready today
The commander of the US Navy base in Bahrain has warned that US forces are prepared for a strike against Iran over the country’s nuclear program
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