Attack of the Drones: US justifies strikes
Obama administration gives first detailed justification of ‘targeted killing’… President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser has for the first time set out a case for the use of UAVs in targeting al Qaeda members. John Brennan went further than any previous official, and notably said that while attacks would not be carried out when there [...]
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. But the real dangers are at home… The United States is a bit like a 375-pound, middle-aged man with a heart condition walking down a city street at night eating a Big Mac. He’s sweating profusely because [...]
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Despotic regimes are paying millions of dollars a year to American public relations firms… It has emerged that a US public relations firm, Racepoint , was being paid $50k a month by the government of Rwanda to improve its image, at a time when rights groups were increasingly critical of the crackdown on [...]
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What can we learn from the past about Iranian armament and the nuclear issue? The verb “to disarm” is irregular in all languages. It has neither first person, nor present, nor past: it is conjugated above all in the future and in the second person. People do not say: “I am disarming”, or [...]
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Iranian officials say new sanctions amount to ‘economic war’… As pressure from the West grows on Iran over its nuclear programme, officials in the country have hit back over threatened sanctions. Responding to a proposed oil embargo by the European Union, Iran’s economic minister suggested it would tantamount to “economic war”, while foreign [...]
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The United States needs to reassess its use of unmanned drones… The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. unmanned aerial drone strike inYemen on May 25, 2010, hit the wrong target. The United States thought that it was striking at Al-Qaeda. Instead, the strike killed one of the political enemies of Yemen’s [...]
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The United States will likely be the World’s superpower for years to come… The USA is currently the world’s stand alone superpower, but as the curtains very gradually came down on the 9/11 decade, the trend within sections of the media, as well as among economists and political commentators has been to pre-emptively [...]
Continue reading …The death of North Korea’s self-styled ‘dear leader’ has been greeted with shock verging on parody in the isolated nation, while the events have sent shockwaves through the international community. With Kim Jong-il’s succession plans still not fully prepared, there is concern that the North could engage in typical tactics; reacting to instability by focusing [...]
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