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Manifest Destiny's Underworld
In seeking a term that would characterize not only López's expeditions but also other invasion plots, Americans fastened on filibuster—a modification of the French word flibustier and the Spanish filibustero, which were themselves derivatives of an old Dutch term for freebooter.
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand - New York Times
“I’m an old intel guy,” said one analyst. (The transcript omits speakers’ names.) “And I can sum all of this up, unfortunately, with one word. That is Psyops. Now most people may hear that and they think, ‘Oh my God, they’re trying to brainw
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Pentagon's Accounting Mess - National Business News - Portfolio.com
Two South Carolina sisters who supplied small parts to the military bilked it of more than $20 million by charging wildly inflated shipping costs for low-priced items, like $998,798 for shipping two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas.
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The Anti-Japanese Resistance War, Chinese Patriotism and Free Speech. How Can We Forgive Japan?
A sign of the maturity of a people is its ability to have sufficient confidence to forgive. We should love and forgive the Japanese without asking them to love and forgive first.
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Foreign Policy: Battlefield Earth
One proposal would pull cooler water from the deep oceans to the surface in an explicit attempt to shift the trajectories of hurricanes. Some actors might even deploy counter-geoengineering projects to slow or alter the effects of other efforts.
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Responsible Nanotechnology: Secret Military Development
Over the next few months, micro-UAV attacks continue to rattle U.S. and allied forces ... this brief fab-weapon experiment by Taliban and Al Qaeda forces, the printed UAV concept, still will have its uses.
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Coudal Partners
Part one of a documentary about the now closed Los Alamos junk shop
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Windfalls of War II - The Center for Public Integrity
Top 100 Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan
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The Homepage of Professor Philip G. Zimbardo
"The Lucifer Effect": Stanford Prison Experiment and the like.
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The Victor? - The New York Review of Books
Bob "Freedom Fries" Ney spoke fucking Farsi???!!! Bob "Bribes" Ney wanted to talk sense with Iran? Oh God, why am I not a conspiracy theorist?
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Black Ops Jungle: The Academy of Military-Industrial-Complex Studies
75 students in the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness magnet program will study cybersecurity and geospatial intelligence, respond to mock terror attacks, and receive limited security clearances at the nearby Army chemical warfare lab.
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How George Bush became the new Saddam | Macleans.ca - Canada - Features
Sometimes I think Iraq doesn’t exist at all. It’s just a series of preconceptions, a country invented to keep the West’s intelligentsia busy arguing and pontificating, fighting over facts about a place that is so clearly a work of fiction.
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It is the death of history - Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk
"Humankind is losing its history for the pleasure of private collectors living safely in their luxurious houses and ordering specific objects for their collection."
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The day Agent Zigzag came back from the dead - Times Online
there's footage of Chapman out there
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Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre - Books - Review - New York Times
Nursing a colossal hangover and clutching a suitcase filled with photographic equipment, Zigzag parachuted over Cambridgeshire and promptly vomited the remains of his banquet on his overalls. - Ed. Bad. Ass.
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War Of The Worlds eComic
Hell yeah
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A Chinese Tycoon, Inspired to Create Police Technology - New York Times
Amateur weightlifter and Buddhist Lin said the success of American technology during the invasion of Iraq inspired him to acquire the predecessor company for China Public Security and turn it to police work.
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trackingtransience.net
Follow Hasan Elahi around the world
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VQR » Last Photographs
Ten minutes before he was killed, Sergeant Freeman L. Gardner Jr. was assigned to watch this street as bulldozers cleared debris feared to conceal IEDs.
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Autonomy
According to Radar, "Autonomy Corp, which designs eavesdropping and data mining software. The company has boasted about having more than 30 U.S. "intelligence-related and classified organizations" as customers.
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