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Inside Top Secret America

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 31, 2010
Lindsay Beyerstein Global Research/AlterNet In July, the Washington Post published the Top Secret America project — a sweeping portrait of America’s heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment. Lead reporter Dana Priest calls it the “vast and hidden apparatus of the war on terror.” Priest, who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, described the project as the most challenging [...]
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False Charges Ricochet in the War on WikiLeaks

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 26, 2010
Scott Horton/Harper’s This weekend, the controversies surrounding WikiLeaks took another strange turn. Late on Friday, the Swedish newspaper Expressen disclosed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was the subject of an arrest warrant arising out of charges by two female witnesses that he had raped them within a three-day period. The late-hours special duty prosecutor, Maria [...]
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Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 26, 2010
Fred Branfman, AlterNet “[General McChrystal says that] for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” — “The Runaway General,” Rolling Stone, 6/22/10 The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that that mass U.S. assassination on a scale unequaled in world history lies at the heart of America’s military strategy [...]
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Our Only Existing Jobs Program Is the Military — an Insane Way to Keep Americans Employed

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 15, 2010
Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog America’s biggest — and only major — jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I’m not even [...]
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What They Did to Pat Tillman

By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: August 10, 2010
A new film chronicles the government’s attempt to mythologize its most famous soldier — and his family’s effort to dismantle the myth Mark Warren / Esquire There is one moment, in a film with many such moments, that just punches you in the gut. It was at the public memorial service held for Pat Tillman [...]
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