Pentagon Slowly Coming to Realization That There Might Possibley Be Civilian...
Hell froze over yesterday: The United States military is investigating reports of civilian casualties that may have occurred as part of the American-led fight against the Sunni militancy known as the...
View ArticleRauf Exploited One Last Time, Now Latest Drone Victim
On January 30, I noted how the varied history of Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim had seen him on many different sides of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His history depends on whoever is describing...
View Article“Success” in GWOT: Evacuated Embassies in Yemen, Open Season on Muslims in US
You can bet that the “he was just a disturbed person who snapped, don’t look at it as a trend” pieces to start flowing any minute, but how can we see the brutal, senseless murders of Deah Barakat,...
View ArticleBrennan’s Addiction to Signature Strikes Killed Weinstein
The US insists that the deaths of hostages Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto were a “mistake”. Both the New York Times and Washington Post open their articles about the drone strike that killed...
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Tuesday Morning: The Week’s Peak Crey
[image: Vaguely Artistic via Flickr]I cannot with the unexpected engagement picture in my Twitter timeline of news oligarch Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall, on the heels of losing David Bowie and...
View ArticleGrim “Reaper” News: US Drones Inexplicably Falling From Sky
Craig Whitlock has a long read in today’s Washington Post, digging into the issue of US drones suffering problems while in flight. These problems often result in the pilots having to steer the drones...
View ArticleMonday Morning: Swivel, Heads
Somebody out there knows what this tune means in my household. For our purposes this Monday morning, it’s a reminder to take a look around — all the way around. Something might be gaining on you. Let’s...
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Mullah Mansour Drone Strike: Important Milestone or Radicalizing Event?
How much more ironic could it be? More than 43 years after the last Americans evacuated Vietnam, ending our disastrous occupation there, the dateline reads Hanoi on President Barack Obama’s statement...
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When Does a Random Taxi Driver Become a Lawful Combatant?
Mohammad Azam, in a photo at the linked Guardian article.A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post questioning the Obama Administration’s logic in killing the leader of the Afghan Taliban in a drone strike...
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10 Years of emptywheel: Jim’s Dimestore
As you saw in Marcy’s posts yesterday, emptywheel is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the move from The Next Hurrah to Firedoglake. You will notice that the current version of the blog comes...
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