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Obama Zaps E. Europe Star Wars

Rated Sep 17 • 2 reviews • military, politics • thenation.com

"The truth is that the decision to put a missile defense system was both stupid and needlessly provocative. Stupid, because the system doesn't work and because the threat from Iran is nonexistent. And provocative, because it was part of the Bush administration's neo-Cold War effort to bolster and expand NATO, pressure Russia militarily in south and central Asia, back adventurist states such as Georgia, and otherwise poke the Russian bear with sharp sticks."
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Afghanistan: a war we cannot win - Telegraph

Rated Jul 11 • 1 review • military, afghanistan, development • telegraph.co.uk

"A reduction in troops and a turn away from state-building should not mean total withdrawal: good projects could continue to be undertaken in electricity, water, irrigation, health, education, agriculture, rural development. We should not control and cannot predict the future of Afghanistan. It may become more violent, or find a decentralised equilibrium or a new national unity, but if its communities want to work with us, we can, over 30 years, encourage the more positive trends in Afghan society and help to contain the more negative. "
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The American Conservative -- Russian Lessons

Rated Jul 10 • 2 reviews • military, afghanistan, development • amconmag.com

"The lesson here is that the barriers to development lie not in a lack of aid but in poor human capital and weak social and political institutions. Although Western economists came rather later to this conclusion than the Soviets, most now accept it. Practice, though, continues to lag theory. Too often, those tasked with development still view it�"as the Soviets initially did�"as an engineering problem, a matter of building roads, factories, and schools."
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Roadside Attractions - Graeme Wood

Rated Jul 09 • 2 reviews • military, native americans • theatlantic.com

"It was, quite simply, a concentration of force unlike anything most of us have ever seen, unless we work in demolitions."
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TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect

Rated Jul 08 • 1 review • military, native americans • prospect.org

"Over the last three years drone strikes have killed about 14 terrorist leaders. But, according to Pakistani sources, they have also killed some 700 civilians. This is 50 civilians for every militant killed, a hit rate of 2 percent- hardly "precision."
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Lawmakers to hold news briefing on burn pits - Army News,...

Rated Jun 11 • 1 review • military, movies, iraq • armytimes.com

"There is mounting evidence that veterans may be ill --" and some may have actually died -- as a result of exposure to dangerous toxins produced by the pits."
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U.S. Spy Flies To Gain New Eyes | Disinformation

Rated Jun 03 • 1 review • military, technology, science • disinfo.com

"A microchip-sized digital camera patented by the California Institute of Technology could provide vision for the US military's insect-sized aircraft. It is light enough to be carried by these tiny surveillance drones and also uses very little power."
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West should buy, not eradicate, Afghanistan's poppy crops...

Rated May 22 2009 • 3 reviews • agriculture, drugs, military, afghanistan, economics • worldfocus.org

"...it would be more sensible for Western governments to help buy the poppy crop. This would solve two problems in one blow. First, it would help deal with the world-wide shortage of medical opiates which, according to the World Health Organization, are causing a "global pain crisis." In Africa hundreds of thousands of people are dying in agony for lack of pain relief. Second, it would prevent the opium farmers of Afghanistan being driven into the arms of the Taliban."
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Homegrown Evolution: City Farm Chicago

Rated May 20 2009 • 2 reviews • agriculture, military, food • homegrownevolution.com

very cool; human energy and will power plus a front end loader & a few dump trucks can make incredible things happen. we need dozens of these operations in every big city
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The Disease of Permanent War | Politics | AlterNet

Rated May 19 2009 • 1 review • economics, military, politics • alternet.org

Egypt receives some $3 billion in assistance and is required to buy American weapons with $1.3 billion of the money. Taxpayers fund the research, development and building of weapons systems and then buy them on behalf of foreign governments. It is a bizarre circular system. It defies the concept of a free-market economy. These weapons systems are soon in need of being updated or replaced. They are hauled, years later, into junkyards where they are left to rust. It is, in economic terms, a dead end. It sustains nothing but the permanent war economy.
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