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Afghanistan Commander Gen. John Allen Investigated; Meanwhile, Afghanistan sinking
The emails to Jill Kelly of Gen. John Allen, US commander in Afghanistan and a friend of ex-CIA chief David Petraeus, are being investigated as […]
The Tesla S and World Peace: Can American Green Energy End the Gulf Oil Wars?
Petroleum makes the world go round, with 70% of it used to power automobiles. About a fifth of the world’s 90 million barrels a day […]
Juan Cole: Real Petraeus Failure Was Counter-Insurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan (Democracy Now!)
Here is Amy Goodman’s interview with me, which was broadcast on Democracy Now! This morning. Via YouTube here Here is DN’s lead-in: CIA director David […]
Drone, Sanctions affecting Medicine, Intensify US-Iran Tensions
Among President Obama’s first decisions after his reelection was to further increase already severe sanctions on Iran. Just before that, Iran shot at a US […]
Bradley Manning would Cop to Wikileaks if Spying, Aiding Enemy charges are Dropped (DemocracyNow!)
Mirrored from DemocracyNow! Accused U.S. Army whistleblower Bradley Manning has offered to submit a partial guilty plea on charges of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks […]
Tracking down Mubarak’s Ill-Gotten Gains (Loveluck)
Louisa Loveluck writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism In Egypt’s Tahrir Square, the vast fortune of Hosni Mubarak and his inner circle was also […]
On Malala Day, Pakistani Girls chant “I am Malala”
Pakistan, and people around the world, commemorated yesterday as “Malala Day”, in honor of Malala Yusufzai, who was shot in the head by a Taliban […]
Companies are Mining your Facebook/ Twitter Info… and Selling it (Beckett)
Lois Beckett writes at ProPublica Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being […]
Real Petraeus Issue was Evaluation of Afghanistan
Maybe it is because I was brought up in part in Europe, but I just cannot understand American puritanism’s obsession with public officials’ private lives. […]
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