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Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Robert Scheer, Angela Merkel, Berlin Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cia, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Germany, Anniversary, Stanley McChrystal, Soviet Union, World News

When Gorbachev came to power he, like Obama, inherited a war that was not in the interest of his nation. If the response of a Soviet dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in doing the same?

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The True Story of Area 51's UFOs

Keith Thomson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Secrecy, Area 51, Unlv, Cia, Ufos, Airplanes, Spying, Extraterrestrials, Cold War, Spies, Air Force, Top-Secret, Flying-Saucers, Technology News

Area 51 is heard in the same breath as Roswell, Amityville and Loch Ness. But now, with the CIA's declassification of aircraft testing there, we can finally know the truth.

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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Last Call to be World Leader

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology

Read More: Buzz Aldrin, Einstein, Cia, M.C. Hammer, Apollo, Sputnik, Kitty Hawk, Nasa, Global Trends 2025, Exobiology, Mr. Spock, Afghanistan, Moon, Boeing Company, Dod, Aromabar, Kaguya, Michener, Klare, Technology News

Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.

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CIA Eavesdropping Suit: Government Agrees To Pay $3 Million

AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who sued CIA officers for ille...

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Italy Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Terrorist Kidnapping Case

AP | COLLEEN BARRY and VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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MILAN — An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the fi...

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A Curious Lack of Curiosity

Tony Blankley | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Valerie Plame, Cia, Ahmed Wali Karzai CIA, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Politics News

The Times published on the front page the name of a purported CIA-paid asset, Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president. This may be the most egregious compromise of a CIA operative in our history.

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CIA Rendition Plane Spotted In Birmingham UK

The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met ...

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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Cia, Gitmo Detainees, Afghanistan, Palau, Gitmo, Uighur, Obama, Chinese Muslims, Uighurs, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Terrorism, China, Torture, World News

KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...

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The 'Bright Line Rule': New Papers Detail FBI, CIA Wrangle Over Torture

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA ove...

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The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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Hamid Karzai's Brother Only Tip Of Iceberg Of U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords: IPS

Inter Press Service | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President ...

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Taliban: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them!

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Hamid Karzai, Cia, Taliban, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

Afghanistan is not Iraq. Unlike the Sunni Awakening, when Iraqi tribe members took up arms against al-Qaeda and foreign insurgents, the Taliban are an integral part of Afghanistan, not foreign fighters.

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The CIA, The Brothers Karzai and Spinning our COIN Wheels

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Durgs, Nato, Coin, Cia, Poppy, Afghanistan, Opium, Andew Exum, Counterinsurgency, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.

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America's Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Drugs, Heroin, Cia, Afghanistan Opium, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: "Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work."

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CIA Pays Off Another Afghan Despot, Hopes for the Best

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Warlords, Realpolitik, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Cia, Human Rights Watch, Warlords, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News

It appears as though the CIA is -- yet again -- employing the good ol' "The Enemy of My Enemy is The Guy Who Screws Me In The End" foreign policy doctrine.

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Karzai's Brother On C.I.A. Payroll: NYT

AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the president of Afghanistan, gets regular payments from the CIA and has for much of the past eig...

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Nancy Pelosi Claim That CIA Lied Validated By House Intelligence Committee

The Hill | Jared Allen | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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Democrats on the Intelligence Committee have concluded that the CIA did not fully inform Congress about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques d...

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Welcome to 2025: American Preeminence Is Disappearing Fifteen Years Early

Michael T. Klare | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: US China Relations, American Exceptionalism, Cia, China Economy, International-Cooperation, Politics News

In November 2008, the National Intelligence Council, an affiliate of the Central Intelligence Agency, has predicted that America's global preeminence would gradually disappear over the next 15 years.

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Juanita Castro, Fidel's Sister, Says She Collaborated With CIA

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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MIAMI — One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a memoir released Monday that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly ...

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Obama in the Thicket of "Afghaniranistan"

William Bradley | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Britain, Cia, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Mi-6, Nobel Peace Prize, Iaea, Mossad, Moscow, Tehran, Israel, Iraq, Vienna, Special Forces, Taliban, Sayeret, Al Qaeda, Revolutionary Guard, Iranian Nuclear Program, Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Soviet Union, Jihadism, Post-Soviet Space, Somalia, Cairo Address, John Kerry, World News

Obama is in a multi-faceted complex of geopolitical crises. He is actively using military force in two of the countries, and has threatened, at the least, tough sanctions in the third.

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Predator Drone Strikes Increasing, Carrying Out Operations For Pakistan

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reaper-Drones, New America Foundation, Central Intelligence Agency, The New Yorker, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Predator, Zardari, New Yorker, Cia, Jane Mayer, Pakistani Government, Predator Drones, Politics News

The Obama Administration has increased the scope of the U.S. government's two drone programs, writes Jane Mayer in an article in the New Yorker. "Acc...

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Lithuania Investigates Secret CIA Prisons

ABC News | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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The president of Lithuania called for an official investigation Tuesday into an ABC News.com exclusive report in August that the CIA housed a secret p...

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War Fever at the Times: A Five-Day Log

David Bromwich | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Dexter Filkins, Cia, Eric Schmitt, Pat Tillman, Pakistan, David Rohde Escapes, David Petraeus, New York Times Magazine, Stanley McChrystal, New York Times, Taliban, Afghanistan, Lewis Sorley, David Rohde, Media News

Made nervous by signs that President Obama will not push for a bigger war in Afghanistan, the New York Times is showing what the rest of his time in office will be like if he does not cooperate.

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Visible Technologies: U.S. Spies Buy Stake In Social Media-Monitoring Firm

wired.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology

Read More: Visible Technologies, In-Q-Tel, Twitter, CIA Visible Technologies, CIA Twitter, Open Source Intelligence Spying, Cia, Blog Monitoring, Technology News

America's spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates -- even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, th...

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