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• How Much Will Escalation Cost?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  The L.A. Times has a fascinating article about the difficulties in accounting for estimated costs in a troop surge in Afghanistan. The calculations so far have produced a sweeping range. The Pentagon publicly estimates it will cost $500,000 a year for every additional service member sent to the war zone. ...
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• Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate … by Alan Caruba

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate By Alan Caruba ************************** For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?” The truth ...
  20 hours ago

• Internet Under Siege

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 579
  by Phil Giraldi — AntiWar.com It is ironic that President Barack Obama would travel to China and speak against government control over the internet.  If the American Department of Homeland Security has its way new cybersecurity laws will enable Obama’s administration to take control of the internet in the event ...
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• Republican Purity and Conservatism

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  It appears that the Republican National Committee is working on a set of principles that Republican candidates have to adhere to in order to receive funding and support from the RNC. There are ten principles listed, and the candidates have to adhere to at least seven of these principles “as identified by the ...
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• Do Army Guys Get Fired For "Loss Of Confidence"?

  
  Springbored's Springboard — Authority: 521
  I dont know the answer to this one. But plenty of Air Force guys have walked the plank lately, and the Navy has booted about a CO a month . But the Army? Do they fire anybody anymore over there?
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• Reporting the war at home

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  The news about Afghanistan and Iraq can feel like background noise, as listeners and readers become desensitized to the long, ongoing conflicts. How do local newspaper editors balance their duty to report on very important issues vs. losing your attention, with stories day after day on the same topic? The World’s ...
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• The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  by Len HartAlbert Einstein said: “the men who possess real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war.” It is one of the most incredible ‘coincidences’ in history that as the Berlin Wall fell and communism ceased to be the global threat we had been told it was, a new ‘bogey [...]
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• Whoops, Pentagons Realistic Afghan Price Tag Leaks [War]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  The Pentagon is mad at the White House because the White House insists on giving an accurate prediction of the cost of troop escalation in Afghanistan. See, the White House budget office calculated...
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• How Much Will Escalation Cost?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 763
  The Los Angeles Times earns your readership this morning by running a great piece digging into differing cost estimates between the White House and the Pentagon over how much a troop increase in Afghanistan will cost. The White House says it wants a thorough accounting; the Pentagon appears to be worried that such a ...
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• Afghanistan: U.S. Military Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  Despite Surge in U.S. Deployments, More Civilians Are Posted in War Zoneby August Cole | Wall Street JournalEven as U.S. troops surge to new highs in Afghanistan they are outnumbered by military contractors working alongside them, according to a Defense Department census due to be distributed to Congress — ...
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• coinky dink?

  
  WHITE NOISE INSANITY — Authority: 134
  Calls from Angela Merkel told Tony Blair he would not get EU’s top job and Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion • Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true intentions for war • Military ‘ill-prepared’ for aftermath of invasion coinky dink? I think not, after all who wants a known ...
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• The Children’s Crusade

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 135
  "It really boils down to one of two decisions, getting out or getting in." – President Lyndon Johnson, speaking about Vietnam"Soldiers came to school today," announced the kindergarten kid. “They only kill bad people. They don’t kill good people.” This story comes to us by way of Jon [...]
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• Let Brett Favre Fix It

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 130
  According to a part time shitty actor named Fred Thompson, we’ve already lost the war against the mud hut dwelling folks in Afghanistan.  Kind of like Fred and his incontinence.Iraq?  We’re still waiting for those ungrateful people to welcome our spreading of Democracy and throw us a liberating ...
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• 9/11 plotters to plead not guilty in order to "air their criticisms of US foreign policy".

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 610
  We told you this was going to happen... From Breitbart : Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it. " The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not ...
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• Pentagon Manhunters: America’s New Murder, Inc.?

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 442
  Antifascist CallingWhen CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed that for eight years the Agency ran a secret program to hunt down and kill top leaders of the Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets known as al-Qaeda, it set off a political firestorm.While congressional Democrats and Republicans ...
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• Robert Greenwald praiases “The Nation” magaziner on “We’re Funding The Taliban” story

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  h/t Down with Tyranny and YouTube You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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• Consulting Generals Shape Policy

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  The Department of Defense told the watchdog Project on Government Oversight Thursday that it wont let the public see a congressionally mandated revolving-door database of Pentagon employees. POGO wonders what the harm is in seeing a list of former government officials who are now working for defense ...
  3 days ago

• This Week In The Pentagon

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 516
  An interview with the new commander of USSOUTHCOM and the Navy’s continuing efforts to stop piracy of the coast of Somalia.
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• Cartoon Of The Day

  
  Evaluation — Authority: 144
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• Pentagon Announces Military Commissions Actions

  
  THE TENSION — Authority: 148
  FILE PHOTO - Commissions building courtroom at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Christopher Mobley.) N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- The following news release made available Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense is the text of a statement announcing ...
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