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• Taking Chance

  
  Kenneth G. Davenport — Authority: 466
  I watched an amazing movie tonight called " Taking Chance ". If you have not yet seen it, please rent it. Its the story of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps final trip home, as told from the perspective of Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, the Marine officer who accompanied him from Dover Air Force Base to Chances home in Wyoming. ...
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• Rape within the U.S. Military: 1 in 3 women service members sexually assaulted at least once

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 127
  By Ann Wright, New York Times OpEd NewsJournalists Pascale Bourgaux and Mercedes Gallego in their trips to Iraq as war correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape.When they left Iraq they decided to ...
  15 hours ago

• Generation “What Change?”

  
  Political Teen Tidbits — Authority: 402
  Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors was recently asked to review a book, and because the target audience was people under 30, he asked me if I wanted to take on the project. I agreed, then emailed him and a few other people about how to go about reviewing a book I didn’t like. Taking only some of their advice, this ...
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• THE PROTOCOLS, BLOOD LIBEL, MATZO BALLS, JESUSS MURDER, ORGAN TRAFFICKING, WHITE PHOSPHORUS, IDF ORGAN HARVESTING

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was a tract purported by most Jews to have been plagiarized likely by the Russian secret service under the Czar and from a work by Joly written against Louis Napoleon of France, whom Joly and others rightly considered a dictator who ...
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• The Negroponte Warning

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  by emptywheel FiredogLake.com One more tiny detail from the torture tape FOIA. Document 27, dated July 28, 2005, and titled, “DNI News” is described as “a one-page email with a CIA attorney’s opinion, conveyed to his client, regarding the DNI’s position [sic] the destruction of the videotapes.” We ...
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• Surprise! Wars Are Expensive…

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 480
  Of course I agree with Gil here, but if anything, he’s actually understating the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by a significant measure in failing to account for the hidden, long-term liability costs of the present conflicts that could tally more than $3 trillion — that of course is in addition to the ...
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• Claim: Pentagon tried to ‘intimidate’ journo covering Blackwater

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Daniel Tencer The Raw Story The office of Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking soldier in the US, tried to intimidate a reporter working on a story about security contractor Blackwater’s operations in Pakistan, the reporter claims. Jeremy Scahill — whose ...
  3 days ago

• Cuba launches military exercises to guard against US invasion

  
  Goodtimepolitics — Authority: 126
  Cuba’s armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion. Americans focused on a U.S. military assault more likely are thinking about how President Barack Obama will pursue war ...
  3 days ago

• First Carbon-Neutral Army Brats in USA to Grow up Solar Powered by Tucson Sunshine

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tucson is putting 6 megawatts of solar on their new Soaring Heights Communities, a groundbreaking private housing development that will get 75% of its power from the Tucson sun, famous for shining 350 days a year. The largest solar community in the US; with 81,000 solar panels ...
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• Families of Military Suicides Seek White House Condolences

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 150
  As one who lived through the Vietnam War era, I lost two friends - their family owned the summer home next to ours - who had served in the Army and came back home seriously disturbed emotionally by what they had experienced to the point that they took their own lives. A cousin also served as an Army Captain and ...
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• Wednesday Hero: Rear Adm. Ned Deets

  
  MY WEEKLY THOUGHTS — Authority: 104
  Rear Adm. Ned DeetsRear Adm. Ned Deets speaks with Frank Chebatar, president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, at the conclusion of the base consolidation ceremony. The two bases consolidated to form Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Fort Story. These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives ...
  4 days ago

• Whats the point of the Afghan War?

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 575
  By Michael J.W. Stickings It is being reported that President Obama will send an additional 34,000 troops to Afghanistan as part of his soon-to-be-announced Afghan War plan. He has called the Afghan War "a war of necessity," in contrast to the war of choice that was, and is, the Iraq War, and he wants ...
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• To Put It Bluntly….

  
  An Ol' Broad's Ramblings — Authority: 531
  ….. THIS SERIOUSLY PISSES ME OFF!
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• Colombian Invasion : Touching All the Bases

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 560
  A sign in Caracas, Venezuela, denounces expanded U.S. military presence in Colombia. Photo by Thomas Coex / AFP / Getty Images.Just the beginning?The U.S buildup in ColombiaBy Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / November 24, 2009CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia -- Larandia Air Force Base, Departmento Caquetá, in southern ...
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• Amid Growing Pressure, Obama to Back McChrystals Troops Surge in Afghanistan

  
  American Power — Authority: 709
  From Londons Telegraph , " Barack Obama ‘to Announce 30,000 Afghan Troop Increase Next Week’ ": President Barack Obama has convened his “war council” for the ninth and possibly final time before his expected announcement next week to send more than 30,000 troops to Afghanistan after more than 80 ...
  6 days ago

• What Do Generals Do When They Retired?

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  Brewing Flap Over Military Senior Mentors -- Small Wars Journal How Some Retired Military Officers Became Well-paid Consultants - Tom Vanden Brook, Ken Dilanian and Ray Locker, USA Today . ... As "senior mentors," as the military calls them, the retired officers help run war games and offer advice to ...
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• Ask John Burns: Obamas Options in Afghanistan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  As President Obama considers which military tack to take in Afghanistan, John Burns is answering readers questions on the options under consideration.
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• Liz Cheney on Obamas Afghanistan Indecision: Completely Inexcusable - Plus, Obama to Surrender Key Provinces to Taliban!

  
  American Power — Authority: 709
  Liz Cheney on Aghanistan , from yesterdays "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "I think it’s just completely inexcusable that we’ve now had month after month after month of photo-op out of the White House and no decision. The president is very fond of saying, ‘Before I commit troops, I’m going to ...
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• Ask John Burns: Obamas Options in Afghanistan

  
  At War — Authority: 133
  As President Obama considers which military tack to take in Afghanistan, John Burns is answering readers questions on the options under consideration.
  6 days ago

• Are Pentagon “Senior Mentors” Pushing the Envelope?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  An article in last Wednesday’s USA TODAY caught my attention because of its “military nature.” Actually, it didn’t just catch my attention. With its front page column titled “ Military’s ‘senior mentors’ cashing in ,” and another two-page spread on the inside, it jumped at me, grabbed and kept my ...
  6 days ago

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