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Washington Post Keeps Administration’s Secret About Drone Base in Saudi Arabia

Washington Post Keeps Administration’s Secret About Drone Base in Saudi Arabia

by Paul Mutter | Feb 8, 2013 | Human Rights, War & Peace

Cross-posted from the Arabist. The Washington Post, among “several” other unnamed news outlets, has reportedly known of a US airstrip in Saudi Arabia that, aside from the apparent distinction of being the first new US base opened on Saudi soil since the...
Four More Years: Europe’s Meltdown

Four More Years: Europe’s Meltdown

by Conn Hallinan | Feb 6, 2013 | Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace

This is the last of five articles analyzing the key issues the Obama administration faces over the next four years. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. peace movement came up with a catchy phrase: “What if the schools got all the money they needed and the Navy had to...

The Pentagon as a Global NRA

by Tom Engelhardt | Jan 13, 2013 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace

Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is? Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style mass killings, or noted that there are barely more gas...

Is Hagel’s Appointment of Any Actual Use to the Anti-War Left?

by Phyllis Bennis | Jan 9, 2013 | War & Peace

Cross-posted from the Nation. Chuck Hagel isn’t anyone I’d pick to be in a position of power. He’s a conservative Republican, a military guy who volunteered to fight in Vietnam. According to Forbes magazine, during Hagel’s tenure in the Senate...

“So Many People Died”: The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014

by Nick Turse | Jan 8, 2013 | War & Peace

Pham To looked great for 78 years old. (At least, that’s about how old he thought he was.) His hair was thin, gray, and receding at the temples, but his eyes were lively and his physique robust — all the more remarkable given what he had lived through. I...
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