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World’s Sole Military Superpower’s 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars

2 hours ago ago from Stop NATO

Stop NATO December 21, 2009 World's Sole Military Superpower's 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars Rick Rozoff - With a census of slightly over 300 million in a world of almost seven billion people, the U.S. accounts for over 40 percent of officially acknowledged worldwide government military spending with a population that is only 4 percent of that of the earth's. A 10-1 disparity. In addition to its 1,445,000 active duty ...

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7 hours ago ago from War Is Boring

by ANDREW BALCOMBE (Video: Andrew Balcombe) Related: Axe-SPAN: U.S. Training of Afghan Air Force World Politics Review : Dutch Government Mulls Departure from Afghan War Columbia City Paper : The Impossible War — Obama Commits More Troops to Afghanistan, with the Wrong Strategy VoA News : Training Afghan Forces Poses Challenge for U.S. Military Axe-SPAN: On U.S. Training of Afghan Army and Police VoA News : Logistics ...

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Obama's Af-Pak War is Illegal

23 hours ago ago from Marjorie Cohn

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned when it sought to encourage him to make peace, not war. In 1945, in the wake of two wars that claimed millions of lives, the nations of the world created the United Nations system to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The UN ...

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Worth repeating

21 hours ago ago from eats shoots 'n leaves

Many folks may have already seen this impressive list of U.S. military interventions since the time of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre by U.S. Cavalry of a hapless, peaceful assembly of Lakotas in South Dakota. Why is it that our national leaders are so eager to call out the troops? What is it they are really ? Such questions arise naturally as the facts begin to sink home. . . Assembled by Dr. Zoltan Grossman, a professor of Geography ...

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Analysis: Hard reality as U.S. pushes Pakistan

18 hours ago ago from Armoredd

Washington’s diplomatic dance with Islamabad has limits in terror fight ANALYSIS By ANNE GEARAN, AP National Security Writer Source: MSNBC updated 2 hours, 16 minutes ago ISLAMABAD Pakistan will not go as far as Washington wants, and there's nothing the U.S. can do about it: That's the sobering reality as the U.S. tries to persuade a hesitant Pakistan to finish off the fight against terrorists. Expand the current assault ...

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Mullen worried Yemen becoming terrorist 'haven'

13 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Mullen worried Yemen becoming terrorist 'haven' ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) -- Adm. Mike Mullen is applauding a military strike in Yemen against suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist group. The top U.S. military officer said Sunday he has been concerned for some time that Yemen could become "another safe haven" for terrorism. He applauded the effort to go after an al-Qaida cell which he said has grown significantly over the ...

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